Copiei uma ideia BIZARRA do Aronian e olha no que deu! Speedrun #59

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AI GeneratedGM Vandro continues his speedrun to a 2,200 rating, currently at 2,080. In this session, he defeats a Brazilian opponent using the Exchange Variation of the Caro-Kann. By implementing a strategic plan inspired by GM Levon Aronian, Vandro secures a dominant position and a decisive victory, while also promoting the educational resources available at Chessflix.
Hi everyone, it's GM Vandro here, let's get into our video for today, episode 9 of our series
The speedrun on the channel, climbing the rating from 900 to 2,200, we're almost there
The 2,100 range, our current rating is 2,080, let's see what's going to happen in this one
Today's chapter, already released here in the challenge, looking for an opponent who comes this way
Line up, let's play against a Brazilian here who has his 2,045 rating, and then, well, we'll see
that he follows our channel, does he follow the speedrun series, well,
Suddenly, if you're playing along with me, leave it in the comments
so I can find out who you are, you're the one throwing that Karokan defense there, and the last time I saw
I played against Karokan; I played a very positional variation, which was the variation
Regarding the exchanges, I will repeat the variant on exchanges, because I believe it is interesting.
For you to gradually learn, there's a variant against Karokan, and it ends up being quite interesting.
If you know the plans, then again, it's that idea of fighting against the Bishop of
C8, so he played here with the knight to F6, before developing the knight, I'm going to play
H3, with the aim of bringing this horse home to F3, without him having an active home
For the Bishop, then, this is the idea behind the variation involving the Bishop moves to d3 and h3.
Well, now, in this position, I can play C3; he'll respond with E5, that square
of an isolated pawn, which I already played in another episode of this series, but it had a
game, I don't remember exactly when that game was, but there was a game involving Aronian
de Brancas, now, is it in this position, I think it's in this position, that is a
Aronian's opening with the White pieces against Kemir, and it was actually Aronian who had
a lower rating back then, probably around 2650, Aronian was there at 2750, he didn't have it
Arrived at 2700, I think it's like this, with the F3 horse, because it allows the horse
B4, and I have to remember that it was a different idea, a somewhat weird idea, that he
He took the pawn on d3, look, he played the knight to b4, come on, I'm going to play with the Rock, it will be
This is way off, you know, because I remember it was like this—when the horse takes it,
He's playing pawn takes, that's fine, I'm allowing the bishop to F5 now, but I have a knight.
Forté is arriving at E5, there are some ideas along column C, I remember it was roughly
As soon as Aronian won the game by placing a knight on e5, it was a very strange idea.
Well, at first you look at it like this and say, wow, everything's wrong, right? Really.
It gives me a feeling that everything is indeed wrong, but I'm trusting, I'm trusting
if my memory serves me right, right, and it's more or less like that, the problem is that, well,
I watched Aronian's game, but I've never studied that variation, so maybe I won't be able to
You really should make great use of the potential in that idea, huh? Well, here goes, I'm going to move the knight to e5, looks like
Make sense, because now if he closes with E6, I might have ideas with D4x.
or even Db3, for example; in the case of Db3, it cannot be Db6 because that would lead to D4x.
Loses the label, yes, this is already a point, right? How does he solve the problem there?
from B7 after Db3, which is the first issue to resolve, because Dc7 doesn't seem to
a legal move, because here with Bf4 and Bd6, I can already consider both Rook c1 and
Cavalry C3 with the idea of Cavalry B5, so the natural moves, thus, to defend B7
They don't seem very good, like this, right? Yeah, BF4 seems to be the move. I'll go Bd6 quickly.
And here I have this option to play Tower C1 directly, which he'll already lose.
The label already has that, then I'll have a Db5 next, or a Cavalo C3 for Cavalo
B5, I believe the C1 Tower is stronger. I play the C1 Tower right away, attacking that Queen, and thus,
I have the idea of the Knight C3 to Knight B5 at any moment; it's just that if I played Knight C3 directly
With the idea of Horse B5, A6, and then I wouldn't have the idea of Rook C1 arriving, well, and
Now comes the Queen at D8, which I can capture on B7, and if the Knight moves to C6, that's precisely this Bishop.
For F4, Horse to D8; if I capture at C1, the Horse returns to C6—that's already an idea, yes.
And here, Pawn B5 check is another move I have, because Knight D7 takes Knight via F7.
followed by Bishop to D6, probably against this you have to play Rf8, yes, this one I'm on
Thinking it's better than taking on B7, Queen B5 check, okay, now I need to analyze
Which move is more worthwhile, because I already have the idea of Horse takes F7?
Rook to F7, Bishop to D6, I'm winning a pawn in the game, and his king is getting into trouble.
Also, another move would be, Queen takes B7, yes, that's precisely the point.
The bishop in D6 is in defense; I think it's a knight from F7, that's the move itself, because knight
D7, Queen D7, I have to move, and Queen B7, in the worst case he plays Bishop E5 check, let's go
Here, playing Horse takes F7, because now I'm attacking the Bishop—yes, a discovered attack.
If he plays Bishop to take on F4, I'll take there with my piece on D8, and if he takes on C1, I'll return by taking.
In D7, and now Bishop D6; well, there's no knight pin, and I'll finish here.
maybe I'll finish the development with Horse D2, because the Horse will be there
Better in E5, he has more potential coming here, with Knight D2 and Knight F3, it seems
More interesting, man, that position he entered is pretty cool, I tried, I think it's really
That's the idea, Aronian, yes, and now I have the Rook c7 check, when I take it
His position is collapsing there, and now I play Bishop to E5, threatening to take the Rook.
G7, it's a variation I wanted to study until recently, this line with Aronian.
So, then we'll check whether it's really that, right? But it seems very wrong, though it's there.
Here are your ideas; well, you played Tower G8, yes, I'm going to play Knight D2 now, if you play the Tower
C8, I can bring the rook to C1, and now against the queen on G5, I believe Knight F3.
which was already my idea—bringing the Horse to F3—then we need to find a way to
Attacking this king, I believe Bishop F4, with the idea of Knight E5, looks winning.
Yeah, because Horse E5, King F6, I'm playing up to F7 at most, look, he just played now
Bishop to H3, but my idea was that, in response to that move, I can play Knight to E5 check.
Hey, when I play King F5, I'll move my Rook to F7, giving check, and then he'll have to capture with his Queen.
Pawn takes, Knight takes, King to F4, there goes the king wandering, that king is going far,
Well, this variant of the exchanges isn't as harmless as it seems, is it? Come on, now
I can play the move Rook f7, Rook f7, Knight to f7, and capture on h3, confusion, it's done
Here's a queen against a rook, already a huge material advantage; I'm playing A4.
A5, I'll play A4 to A5, and then the Knight is already somewhat without squares, it's falling to B7, any idea?
From Bishop B7, we'll deliver checkmate very soon, yes, it's a pity I can't join the game.
Is it possible here on chars.com, right in the window itself, I think maybe I could find it
The match I mentioned, where I can better show you the reference, I'll show it to you now
The position is completely different, look, the position has nothing to do with it, playing A5,
Oh, he has the intermediate A6, but now I return to Queen to B7, because if Knight B7, I play
Dama on B7 now, and then right away, a Horse will basically fall, right, after Horse
B7.
Well, let's take it here in B6, and, well, it's still going, yes, come on, what can I do
Here, let's play Tower 1, suddenly pass to Tower, Tower 3, Tower F3, remove this
Take the knight to H2, and then bring my queen back to D1, to play the queen to H5; I believe we're going to
Hey, mate, look, look, finally, there's a whole Queen left here, with the advantage, good, now, play
Taking, king to H3, and then bringing this queen over to deliver checkmate—I'm already quite curious.
to see Aronian's game, but Aronian's was a very long struggle, so he
I think it was a decisive final, actually, the match was a strategic massacre, the
Aronian's move, he keeps pressing, pressing, until at some point, Porto can't manage it anymore
a shot in the match
Well, now, let's move this Tower to E3, with the idea of Tower F3, let's play Tower F3,
Check, and here he might already give up, because then the king on E8 will take the queen on H4, anything at all
taking the bishop on f6 gives check too, and then the game was already over, that's it.
In this sequence of moves, we have one more idea, so when the guy plays the knight to c6 first,
maybe he'd avoid this idea, yes, there's this detail in the sequence of plays, so look, even one
a seemingly harmless variant, at first glance, but if you know the plans, you
If you're clever, you can put your opponent in a situation where they have to solve many problems.
Come on, let's go, we've already called for another match here, but let's analyze it first,
Let's analyze it; I'll put it up here on the analysis screen, and I'll try to look for it
In this game, I know I can search for games here on Chess.com, it's just that, generally,
I use ChessBase, right, the ChessBase that's the tool most people use to search for games,
Everything else is just that I know on Chess.com you can also see it there, yeah, let's go, I'll put it in
Here's the review, and how was it? Well, it wasn't the most accurate one yet—I let a few things slip.
Things, or maybe the idea of winding up the tops was terrible, well, come on, right, 87.7
75.9 for him, and now we're going to put this here to watch the match and find out
Whether I completely traveled or if there's any basis for what I did, you know. Well, let's toss in that variant there.
The defensive exchanges by Karokan, he played knight to F6, H3—everything theoretical so far—and I play knight.
F3, the most common one, as I said, is the C3, allowing D5—I played that one, it came with
Horse B4, Rock, is the best move in the position; takes on D3, pawn takes on D3, the machine is already
I like it so much, the computer prefers to play by taking the Queen on D3, but I'm sure about this one here
I'm sure that in Aronian's game those pawns are doubled, because this here me
It drew a lot of attention, because the structure is awful, right? Just look at those bent poles.
Here at the center, the guy still has a pair of bishops, but there was a justification, right, since the e5 square is
stronger, I take the c5 pawn more quickly, the bishop doesn't have such a good square to go to, and the bishop move
F5 isn't legal, is it? Even though it takes the bishop to a more active square, the bishop is needed for defense.
On the matter of the lady, that's the big issue here—riding a horse at E5, and giving a B3 isn't the best option, you know?
He's playing knight to d7, yes, it creates a slightly more difficult move, knight to d7, because he's sacrificing a pawn.
Well, I can't, it's like this—Horse D7, Queen takes B7, and now Queen C8; he really has to play.
sacrificing a knight, he'll take everything and play this position, and then he'll have the pair of bishops, the c-file
It's also going to be his, the machine already starts favoring the black pieces, well, I played, Queen B3, Queen C7, and then this move
basically loses the game already, yes, bishop F4, rook C1 asks, should play G4 in this position, and if bishop G6,
Knight C3, and if A6, Queen A4 check, cannot go to B5, which has a knight, takes, and now Re7, Rook C1, good.
According to the position, Black is lost, right? The king is right there in the center, and there are several tactical threats looming.
There, in the middle of the path, and now, what would be the difference? Why does my Tower C1 think it's bad?
Dama E7, if I give the same check, then F8, yes, it's bad for black, right, it must be bad here, but the computer
He isn't impressed; he gives a 0.50 only, he thinks the other variant promises more, but then my opponent made a mistake.
You know the move, take the check, it's the move, and then horse F7, uncovered, piece in defense, there's always a tactic.
We explore there with the discovery, and then the tower enters the seventh, yes, here it's already very lost,
There, the horse arrives at house E5, which is the house it should reach. Well, from there on, there isn't much more gameplay.
Well, interesting. I wonder if it's easy to search for matches here. Let me see if I can quickly find this out.
I'll put this here to, uh, explore, it talks about all the games on chess.com.
Yeah, I'd like to use games from outside Chess.com, master games—let's put Aronian, for example.
I played a game against Aronian with the white pieces, filtered, no, didn't find any games, yes, I'll put it back here again,
master to explore, master-level games, Aronian, in this position you won't find anything from Aronian, nor from other players.
Yeah, well, let's go, I'll put Aronian again—I'm sure Aronian played this, just that I think it was on chess.com
He's looking for games that were played on chess.com, right? Well, I'll have to owe you this game.
I'll see if I can place the pen here, below the video, and whoever's curious can then see it.
But I think that's it, I think that's what happened in the match, yes, I'll put a comment down here.
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