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It is considered a joke opening and is associated with internet chess humor. World champion Magnus Carlsen has used it in online blitz chess, including in games against high-level opponents and Twitch streamers, such as grandmaster (GM) Hikaru Nakamura. The name has also been applied to other opening sequences in which a player moves the king ...
2023: Nepomniachtchi–Ding, World Chess Championship 2023, Game 18. In a winner-take-all tiebreak game, Ding Liren avoids a draw with a risky self-pin on move 46. Both players make errors in the subsequent play but Nepomniachtchi makes the last one as Ding breaks through to become the 17th undisputed World Chess Champion. [123]
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The Austrian Attack is a chess opening characterised by the following moves: . 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4. The opening is a variation of the Pirc Defence.After 4...Bg7, typical continuations include the main line 5.Nf3 0-0, an immediate kingside attack with 5.e5 Nfd7, or a queenside counterattack with 5.Nf3 c5.
This opening was also used by Ding Liren against Hikaru Nakamura in their last game of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, the former would later on qualify for the World Chess Championship with this victory and later on becoming the World Chess Champion. Symmetrical Variation has ECO code D40.
Alternatively, it may travel up the board, often involved in a mating attack against the opposing king. [ 2 ] Activating the king before the endgame is a highly unusual occurrence; before the endgame, the safety of the king is considered paramount, and players are recommended to keep it out of harm's way.
Plaskett's Puzzle is a chess endgame study created by the Dutch endgame composer Gijs van Breukelen (February 27, 1946 – December 21, 2022) around 1970, although not published at the time. Van Breukelen published the puzzle in 1990 in the Netherlands chess magazine Schakend Nederland .
Until the mid-1930s, the King's Indian Defence was generally regarded as highly suspect, but the analysis and play of three strong Soviet players in particular—Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Isaac Boleslavsky, and David Bronstein—helped to make the defence much more respected and popular.