Nihal Sarin’s Pillsbury Attack wins in 24 moves

Featured in this analysis is the chess game between Nihal Sarin and Pawel Teclaf from the 2023 World Rapid Team Championship. Pay special attention to how Sarin’s kingside minor pieces and queen exert pressure on Teclaf’s kingside. Sarin’s knight on e5, bishop on d3, and queen on f3 eyeing h3 are the key piece ingredients in the Pillsbury Attack, leading him to a quick 24-move victory.
Image of Nihal Sarin courtesy of Lennart Ootes
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Awesome analysis!👏👍 a pleasure to follow when you explain such gems.

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@@Elo-hv3fw there is, however, Daniel King also😄

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[@Cloudland117]

Awesome attack and analysis!

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[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

Gotta love it when fierce counter play has mate in one lingering just a single tempo away, only it never materializes as the opponents attack is faster.

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Nice video! What software are you using to display the games?

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Great stuff, as always! Thanks Jerry!

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Hi Jerry!

[@AADIBAWA]

Nihal is master of tactics,,,

[@TheMarksT]

Good battle indeed!

[@Grandcapi]

Good game!

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[@gbu32]

Well Done! Great analysis.

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[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

A great win by Sarin fine analysis, thanks Jerry.

[@againnotavailable]

I guess the king was "too good for his home" at 8:10 🤣

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All Hail the mighty London System attack!

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1:31 Queen a fork!

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[@raflalink]

My thought at 8:17 was to allow the rook in h1 to defend more squares close to the king. Ke1 has only one defender to d1 and Kc1 has the rook defending d1 too.

[@davesmith5656]

All your games are instructive, but I wonder if you would show us a game between an 1800 player and a 2500 player? My guess is that most here are somewhere not-quite-GM and I for one would like to see how a GM makes it all look so easy. CFN channel did a video of Pinkamena (a six year old girl(?) rated 1600+ at the time) playing a gentleman (GM Hummer) rated around 2600. It was pretty amazing to see the BIG difference (he "missed" a #1, and "blundered" a Q) and she was all giggles about winning (I'm sure she knew what happened). Still, the precision of a 2600 GM really stood out. Watching two GM's play,. the level is not quite so obvious because they are closely matched.

[@faznaz7455]

The difference between 1800 and 2500 is still light years apart to be instructive. 1800s still make some fundamental error in judgement but this is not so obvious for 2000+ rated players.

[@davesmith5656]

@@faznaz7455 ---- The idea is to show the errors made by 1600's, and how a GM 2600 will play, showing how they are errors (i.e "small but fatal blunders"). The game between Pinkamen and Hummer was a Danish Gambit (I think), giving up two pawns for ideal placement of two bishops in an open position. The game was lost for black very early on - apparently - but a 1600 player probably would not see that, and would not know how, to proceed as white. That's why the game was instructive. The game proceeded after the "blundered" white queen, still with an advantage to white. I think GM Hummar wanted to see if he could draw or win even with several points of material down, and his play was pretty amazing. The difference in level of play is what I would like to see explained, for instructive purposes, i.e. what a GM strategizes and sees that a 1600 player does not see. Another example is a game in which Bobby Fisher performed a king walk - in the early development stage of the game - against some guy who did not see how to take advantage of the wasted tempi, I think four or five moves to transfer his king to the other side of the board. Fisher's opponent kept developing pieces, bewildered. Fisher showing off what being a top GM means. Fisher of course won, but Caruana, Carlsen, Nakamura, and a slew of top GM's today (and of Fisher's time) would have spotted weaknesses that we mortals do not see, laughed, and won. What Fisher played may be in some opening books today, but I'm pretty sure it was not, then, so it wasn't learned theory that his opponent failed to follow, that led to his demise, it was his failure to understand the strategy.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Oh yeah I got c1 and f7 right!

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TY GM

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Yay 😊

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Nice attack that's how you do it.

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first

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[@MoonBurn13]

You’re the Master Jerry, literally, so I defer to you. That said, the Opening to me appears to land in a very precarious structure for Black. It would seem to me that, without the Pawns on c4 and d5, it’s *like* many other openings - a Colle, a London - but a QGD probably least of the three. In other words Black looks from the beginning like he’s built his house of sticks!

[@loplop7029]

Hi Jerry.

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Third

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Pillsbury dough boy Jerry

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4th

[@optimalbrand]

I think you mean stockfish wins in 24 moves.

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%98 accuracy with 7 avg centipawn loss is outstanding