Blindfold Chess Podcast

• S3 E14 Vaishali Rameshbabu v. K. Bhakti (2022)

  This week, we are looking at the rising star Vaishali Rameshbabu, the 3rd woman in India to achieve the Grandmaster title. She and her brother are the first 2 siblings in history to be Grandmasters, to play in the Candidates, and to play in the Candidates in the same year. For today though, we are going back just a couple of years to the 2022 Tata Steel Blitz tournament - Vaishali Rameshbabu versus Kulkarni Bhakti. —--------------------------------1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 Bd6 5. Bg3 c5 6. Nbd2 O-O 7. c3 b6 8. Bd3 Bb7 9. Ne5 Nc6 10. f4 Ne7 11. Qf3 Nf5 12. Bf2 Be7 13. g4 Nd6 14. g5 Nfe4 15.Bxe4 dxe4 16. Qg4 cxd4 17.cxd4 Rc8 18. h4 Rc2 19. h5 b5 20. g6 Qa5 21. Rd1 Nc4 22. gxf7+ Kh8 23. Ng6+ hxg6 24. hxg6+ 1-0—---------------------------------Being the 3rd woman to achieve the Grandmaster title in India, playing in her first Candidates tournament last year, and setting her sights at the World Championship - it’ll be great to continue to watch Vaishali improve. So that is all that we have for this week. Tune in next time where we will continue to work on our blindfold skills and look at another game of the Masters. —---------------------------------https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaishali_Rameshbabu https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2420745https://cassidynoble.com/ 

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• S3 E13 Alexander Alekhine v. M. Euwe (1921)

  This week, we are looking at the tumultuous and impressive life of the 4th World Champion - Alexander Alekhine. Alekhine’s fingerprints are all over the game we know today - he had many openings named over him including the: Alekhine Defense (e4 Nf6), Alekhine Variations found in the Budapest Gambit, Vienna Game, Ruy Lopez, Winawer Variation, Sicilian Dragon, QGA, Slav, Queens Pawn, Catalan, and Dutch, he had composed several endgame studies, he wrote over 20 chess books, and he had a cat named ‘Chess’ that he took with him to tournaments. Though not officially given the Grandmaster title since FIDE did not give those until 1950, he was given it unofficially from Tsar Nicholas II at the St Petersburg tournament of 1914. This week, we are traveling back to 1921 - before he became world champion to The Hague - Alexander Alekhine versus Max Euwe. —-------1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. c4 e6 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. a3 Bd6 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. b4 Bd6 9. Bb2 O-O 10. Rc1 Qe7 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Nxd5 Nxd5 13. Qxd5 a5 14. Bb5 axb4 15. a4 Rd8 16. Qh5 g6 17. Qh6 Ne5 18. Ng5 f6 19. Bxe5 fxg5 20. Bc4+ 1-0—--------Being ensnared in World War I, World War II, the Russian Revolution, leaving your home country to never return, all while being at the top of the chess world for 17 years, playing in 5 chess Olympiads, and breaking the simultaneous Blindfold Chess record 3 different times - Alexander Alekhine has earned his plaque in the Chess Hall of Fame. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012076https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alekhine http://cassidynoble.com/ 

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• S3 E12 Anna Zatonskih v. E. Nguyen (2017)

  Welcome back! This week, we are taking a closer look at someone that Garry Kasparov has praised for her calculation skills, a 20 time US Women’s Chess Championship participant, 4-time US Women’s Champion, and someone who helped the United States win their first Olympic medal(s) - Anna Zatonskih. For today’s game, we are traveling back to the 2nd round of the US Women’s Championship of 2017. Anna Zatonskih versus Emily Nguyen. Now, if we’re ready - lets begin. —------------------1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 Nf6 6. Na3 Nc6 7. Be3 cxd4 8. Nb5 Qd8 9. Nbxd4 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be7 11. Bd3 O-O 12. Qc2 g6 13. O-O-O Qa5 14. Kb1 b5 15. h4 Rd8 16. h5 Nxh5 17. Rxh5 gxh5 18. Qd2 Kf8 19. Qh6+ Ke8 20. Qxh7 e5 21. Qg8+ Kd7 22. Nxe5+ Kc7 23. Qxf7 1-0—------------------A 3 time Women’s World Championship participant, a 20 time US Women’s Championship participant, a 4 time US Women’s Championship winner, a player in every Olympiad for a quarter of a century, and on the US Women’s team that help earn the United States women their first Olympiad medal - Anna Zatonskih has cemented her mark not only in Ukraine and the United States, but also across the world. —------------------https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1869995https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Zatonskih http://cassidynoble.com/ 

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• S3 E11 Wenjun Ju v. N. Dzagnidze (2017)

  This week, we are looking at not only the current Women’s World Champion, but the 5 consecutive time Women’s World Champion - Wenjun Ju. Her journey to the top of the Women’s World of Chess started at the age of 7 when it was something interesting to do after school. In an interview with Chessbase from November 2020, she said: “My parents didn’t know too much about the game because chess doesn’t have a long history in China. Most people got to know about chess from the 1991 Women’s World Chess Championship when China’s Xie Jun defeated Georgia’s Maia Chiburdanidze. That just happened to be the year I was born” For today’s game, we are going back to 2017 to the IMSA Elite Mind Games Blitz Tournament - Wenjun Ju versus Nana Dzagnidze.—-----------------1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 e6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bg3 O-O 8. Bb5 Bxg3 9. hxg3 Qd6 10. Bxc6 bxc6 11. Ne5 cxd4 12. exd4 c5 13. g4 cxd4 14. cxd4 h6 15. g5 hxg5 16. Qf3 g4 17. Qf4 Rd8 18. Rh8+ Kxh8 19. Nxf7+ Kg8 20. Nxd6 Ba6 21. O-O-O Rab8 22. Qe5 Bc8 1-0—-----------------Having collected the trifecta of chess achievement of being the Classical, Rapid, and Blitz World Champions, being the now longest reigning Women’s World Champion from China surpassing Xie Jun and Hou Yifan, and now tied for the 2nd most number of Women’s World Championship titles. Ju Wenjun is a pillar of chess achievement and is inspiring a new wave of chess players in her home country and across the world. —https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1899883https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju_Wenjun http://cassidynoble.com/

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• S3 E10 Puzzles

  **There is an error in the first puzzle of the episode: the bishop should be on c4 (NOT c5)** Thank you @brianmartin5571 on Youtube for letting me know! Hello, and welcome back to another episode - as per tradition, we will be looking at some puzzles this week.  I will give you the location of each of the pieces on the board then I will give you some time to solve it before we walk through the solution. We have 3 puzzles this week - easy, medium and hard. Try your best to solve the puzzle before the solution begins. Let’s dive in! Puzzle number 1: White has a knight on e7, a king on h6, and a rook on g1. Black has a bishop on c5, rook on e5, and a king on h8.Are we ready for puzzle 2?White has a room on a6 and a king on f3Black has a pawn on a2, a rook on a1, and a king on b4Puzzle 3 - this is another important rook and pawn ending that comes up a surprisingly high number of times: White has a king on b8, a pawn on b7, and a rook on c1Black has a rook on a2 and a king on d8.And that is all that we have for this week, tune in next time where we will continue to work on our blindfold skills and look at another game of the Masters. http://cassidynoble.com/

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