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Analyzing Games Based on Opening #4 - King's Indian Defense

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Analyzing super GM games everyday!

In this blog series, I analyze grandmaster chess games based on their openings, exploring the ideas, strategies, critical moments, and mistakes that shaped the game. Each post focuses on a different opening and breaks down how top players handle positions, create attacks, defend under pressure, and convert advantages at the highest level of chess. I write a simple summary of the game of the end too.
From now on, the frequency will be reduced to 1 Blog per 1, 2 or 3 days because I am working on another Chess Book.


Game 4 - So, Wesley vs Nakamura, Hikaru ( 1-0 )
Event : 3rd Sinquefield Cup 2015

https://adjva4.dpdns.org/study/vvwjVs3t/jKDP81kq#0

Hikaru plays the KID and goes with the theory, starting his attack's foundation with f5. So shuts down the center with d5 and he too prepares f4, but because of the attack on e4 he cannot play.


https://adjva4.dpdns.org/study/vvwjVs3t/Ai4UNR8P#20

Hikaru starts the attack on the king-side with the pawn storm. Wesley focuses on attacking d6, e6 and Hikaru defends that too with prophylactic moves, not rushing with the pawn storm.


Now ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts, because the climax is about to start, where Hikaru, finds not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but SIX BRILLIANT MOVES !!!

https://adjva4.dpdns.org/study/vvwjVs3t/0SdNbIzE#49

Hikaru goes with the attack, setting traps and the sacrificing a Knight, a Rook, a Bishop, again the Rook, the Rook again, and once again the Rook, which Wesley finally captured. And then, when White was a full Rook up, Nakamura shut off the Rook, with another Knight sacrifice and then mated the White King after inviting it to his house.


Summary :
Finding 2 brilliant moves in blitz games are hard. But Nakamura found 6, and 3 in a row among them. He sacrificed many pieces, and then mated the lone king on g6!
Thank you!