A Tale of Caro-Kanns and Endgames | Chess and Psychology – IM Dorsa Derakhshani

By CCSCSL Staff
on April 7, 2020
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International Master Dorsa Derakhshani takes you through two of her games (from Zurich 2016 and Sunway Sitges 2016 in Spain), and into her mind in this is special two-hour lecture.

2020.04.07
Dorsa Derakhshani vs. Philipp Aeschbach, 2016: B18 Caro-Kann, classical, Flohr variation
Derakhshani vs. Swapnil Dhopade, 2016: B18 Caro-Kann, classical, Flohr variation
Maiorov vs. Rakhmatullin, 1996
Anatoli Kudriashov vs. Igor Ivanov, 1979
Dibyendu Barua vs Hugo Spangenberg, Yerevan Olympiad (1996)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1441015
Viktor Korchnoi vs Anatoly Karpov, Karpov – Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1241745
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian vs Borislav Ivkov, YUG-URS (1979)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1063430
Israel Gelfer vs Moshe Czerniak, ? (1980)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1443735

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