Chess Game of the Month
 

#1 on Soltis and some other lists:

www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224863

GM Berliner wins the WCC title in Estrin's favorite variation - balls of steel.

Re: Chess Game of the Month
 

I know, no one comments because no one here fully grasps it. It's awesome.

Re: Chess Game of the Month
 

I'll go through it this weekend.

Re: Chess Game of the Month
 

this game is great. I can't decide whether it being a correspondence game takes some of it away from me or not.

Re: Chess Game of the Month
 

For a beginner like me, this looks pretty sick

Re: Chess Game of the Month
 

[ QUOTE ]
For a beginner like me, this looks pretty sick

[/ QUOTE ]

One of the sickest ever. Try Reti-Alekhine for another sick one slightly easier to analyze.

Re: Chess Game of the Month
 

I love this line. The fact that it boils down to a sterile endgame sort of kills part of it for some people, but taking on Estrin in a Two Knights, the guy that WROTE THE BOOK, does take cojones, that's for sure...

Re: Chess Game of the Month
 

Not just taking him on, but winning the WC while doing so.
Sick is right.