Rapport with some beautiful moves! - European Club Cup 2016
"Beauty in Chess is...and ever shall be associated with visual effects" - Tartakover Commenting on that great game Lasker - Napier , Gerald Abrahams wrote, ".... .a piece of Chess in which, once an imbalance is created, the quantity of material seems to remain irrelevant. Development is preferred to recapturing. After the battle, the counting of survivors !" However, in the game between Aronian - Rapport, in ECC 2016 , it is not just about the material shed....but....the way it was shed.....why even the way the game commenced....! Richard Rapport is known for playing godforsaken lines.....and this one arose out of Chigorin.... named after the Russian Chess God! Position after 27.....Rh1!! How come that Rook which was sitting on h8 landed on h1!? Well, Tartakover also said that the " mistakes can only be made by a strong player "....and Aronian surely must have tread some inappropriate path for landing in such a position....where Blac