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Game of the Week XXI: Daggupati, Balaji (2486) – Brodsky, David (2484)

Game of the Week XXI-Daggupati,Balaji (2486) - Brodsky,David (2484)

In the good ol’ days of the Romantic Era of chess, winning with a beautiful ending was a common end goal.

Players would try to create aesthetically-pleasing finales; sometimes, even their opponents in a lost position would assist in crafting immortal games that made the history books.

Though having technically taken place just beyond the Romantic Era, many tales have come about regarding the legendary game between Wilhelm Steinitz and Curt von Bardeleben in the Hastings 1895 chess tournament. Apparently, von Bardeleben exited the tournament hall without allowing Steinitz to demonstrate the beautiful mate after move 25 on the board; however, the spectacular game was nonetheless immortalized in chess history.

The former World Champion Capablanca later described the Steinitz vs. von Bardeleben game as “one of the last masterpieces handed to us by the ‘Grand Old Man’”.

The note of the game below is taken from Chessbase Mega Database 2022.

Today, the sportive element of the game has taken increasing precedence over beauty; most modern players typically do not care how they win so long as they do. However, either out of necessity or per the taste of the players, beautiful finales are fortunately still occasionally observed in modern chess. This leads us to the Game of the Week…

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Game of the Week XXI: Daggupati vs. Brodsky

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Contributors:

GM Ulvi Bajarani

GM Vasif Durarbayli

Edited by Della Almind

Vasif

Vasif Durarbayli is a highly accomplished Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. He was born on February 24, 1992, in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, and began playing chess at the age of six. Durarbayli quickly showed a talent for the game, winning several national and international chess competitions as a young player. He holds the record for being the youngest player ever to represent the Azerbaijani Olympic chess team, achieving this feat at just 14 years old. To this day, his record has yet to be broken or renewed. He also won the World Youth Chess Championship U14 and the European Youth Chess Championship U18. He was awarded the title of International Master in 2007 at the age of 15 and became a Grandmaster in 2010, at the age of 18. Throughout his career, Durarbayli has competed in and won numerous prestigious chess tournaments, including the Azerbaijani Chess Championship twice (in 2021 and 2023). He was also ranked among the top 16 players in the World Cup in 2021. Durarbayli has represented Azerbaijan in several Chess Olympiads. Currently, he resides in St. Louis, MO.

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