Hikaru Nakamura has long been one of the best blitz chess players online, but can he really defeat a chess engine in three-minute, no-increment chess?! In 2008, he did exactly that as he used an incredible anti-computer strategy of closing the position and offering two exchange sacrifices to convince the top engine, Rybka, to overpress in an effort to avoid a fifty-move rule draw.
Lessons:
* It’s easy to overvalue space.
* In closed positions, what matters is pawn breaks.
* Rooks have no value in closed positions.
* Piece quality trumps piece value, a rough estimate of average quality.
* The Grob sucks. 1…e5 and 2…h5.
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