A sparkling game by a new GM: Samuel Sevian

Whilst watching the end of the World Championships, and also the short match in St Louis between Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura, I also had a peek at other games.

The GM invitational at St Louis has already provided a new GM, Samuel Sevian- born this millennium, 26/12/2000, so not yet fourteen. I have downloaded a few of his games from St Louis and will analyse any which interest me, and add them to my Chessbase 13 blog cloud.

The first I looked at has a sparkling move, from a fairly 'ordinary' position:

White to play and win

Sevian, S v Bregadze, L 22/11/14

Solution

The solution is a move I would never even think of, 1 Ne5!!. Of course, once you have seen and understood it, then it can be explained by consider all biffs and maybe by improve your worst placed piece concepts, or by the need to force matters when ahead in development, but I think his move is truly great.

My analysis of the game is here.

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