London System: Vassily Ivanchuk vs Alexey Shirov

London System Vassily Ivanchuk (2787) vs Alexey Shirov (2739)
World Blitz Championship Moscow 2007
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. e3 d6 5. h3 c5 6. c3 Qb6 7. Qc1 cxd4 8. exd4
Nd5 9. Bh2 Bh6 10. Qxh6 Qxb2 11. Bc4 Qxa1 12. O-O Be6 13. Qd2 b5 14. Bxb5+ Nd7
15. c4 Rb8 16. cxd5 Rxb5 17. Nc3 Qb2 18. Nxb5 Qxb5 19. dxe6 fxe6 1-0
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[@TTYounga]

Thank you for you videos, especially the London system games

[@722Jeslek]

Great video, Mato! Ivanchuk is amazing. I can't believe he plays with this sort of farsightedness in a blitz game. Beautiful.

[@BlueRose3105]

Jedan od najljepših videa objavljenih... Hvala Mato..

[@lionsskyblue442]

thank you mato for all that you do

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

now that is what a chess video should be. quick, to the point and entertaining. thanks.

[@MarcKlark]

thank you Mato. My chess game is improved so much. Tactics and different openings ..pins , discovered check

[@paradoxicus]

I love your videos.
God bless you.
From Spain.Javier

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you for your instructive comment

[@reaniel]

thank you!

[@masansr]

Karmnik won Shirov yesterday in Istanbul Chess Olympiad.
Ivanchuk lost 2 days ago. He was playing white in Sicilian - Rossolimo attack, which is also played in previous video uploaded by Mato.
Interesting Olympiad, I'd say.
Also, I know that there are lots of Tāl's fans out there - Shirov learned from Tāls, both are Latvians.
Just for information.

[@dwx982]

Nice Rook sacrifice by Chucky. Seems strange that Ivanchuck can play Blitz so well when in normal time control games he's always getting into time trouble. Well annotated MatoJelic, many thanks.

[@jamesnguyen9399]

Brilliant Mato! 👏🏼

[@xPickLad]

Very nice game, didn't see that coming!

[@AndrySimanjuntak0911]

"Black Queen on a1 is feeling nervous".

[@nairvinodh]

was lucky to see this first.......As always your videos are great. Can u post anand's games???????

[@mikedee1771]

Always good entertainment from Mato.

[@HollyMartins]

To see that ! See that the Queen gets trapped. Beautiful

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you for your comment

[@rogermoore9572]

MATO IS THE BEST

[@thorbjrngaarskjrbrandt5436]

At 2:30 if Queen takes bishop , then after black queen takes b2, white queen goes to g7 and threatens black rook!?!
Is there something I missed?

[@HollyMartins]

A fat chance is that black move his rook to f8

[@SammyLogan]

Ivanchuk is a great player

[@Jokeronk]

I think you need to add Tal and Morphy to your list

[@Tengoshi]

To be fair about the interest, Shirov has never beaten Kasparov a single game while losing 15 times in classical chess. The match would have been an utter annihilation.

[@uchihadante77]

Ray Keene decided the contender fir the match?,that really sucks.Well at least Shirov had his chance against Anand for the fide world title.It´s a shame he didn´t win that time,i think that Anand was becoming too strong those days.

[@wreynolds1995]

Not quite. Black got two Rooks in exchange for a Queen and a Bishop (and a pawn).

[@hqwebsolutions]

nice trap for queen

[@willygradefes]

"El timo de Cazorla" shirov should play against garry but it never happens.

[@sunilbhattad.8917]

bishop.... to aah........ thu(h2)

[@TheForeman847]

Is it just me or do other people see that this video was uploaded 132 years ago?

[@nairvinodh]

ok second

[@RaD1K4l]

FIRST ;D

[@agungbudiman1170]

Quee

[@MatoJelic]

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