"Okay, hello everyone, and welco back to the Black Rook Channel! Here I am, Septian Bagaskara, together with Sarah, reporting the ga live from Dubai, where we are going to witness the third round of the Dubai Master Open 2022! We are having a tough day right now, boys! Let’s see the pairings that we have!"
Adrian Sheva (2477) – (2695) Alexandr Predke
Aulia dina Warda (2418) – (2582) Ahd Adly
Anna Marisa (2391) – (2547) Suleymanli Aydin
Aleksandar Indjic (2613) – (2388) Laysa Latifah
Anish Gandi (2228) – (2277) Claudia Marisa
Faisal Ali (1835) – (1916) Satria Duta Cahaya
Hilda99: Damn! We have three tough matches in a day, huh? This is going to be either disappointing or crazy!
Froggies: How could we be so unlucky?!
RonaldOSIu007: This is the consequence of winning two matches in a row. They would have to face the top-seeded players sooner or later.
Leak50: Co on, Sheva! Co on, everyone else!
Bagas read the chat box one by one, nodding silently as he saw the barrage of support for the boy. anwhile, Sarah took over the broadcast as she continued, "Just like the usual, we will have one expert guiding us in analyzing the ga. Please, give your best welco to International Master Irfan Aditya!"
Right after that, the screen suddenly split into two, and on one side of that, Irfan’s face suddenly popped up, being so close to the cara. Even though he didn’t go with the others to Dubai, the man still followed the tournant intently, even to the point that he was invited to be a comntator here.
"Hello, everyone. Good morning." Irfan waved his hand, greeting not only Bagas and Sarah but also everyone on the live broadcast.
"So, Master Irfan, what do you think about today’s round? What chance do we have in such a tough matchup?" Bagas inquired straight without any small talk.
"Well..." Irfan didn’t answer the question instantly, pondering it for a mont. "It is quite difficult to determine what would happen. Even though our players are in a great montum, their opponents are also on the sa boat. In the end, it doesn’t matter what their previous results are. Even if Sheva and Laysa have won a lot of gas against a higher-rated opponent in the past, this couldn’t be used as a parater anymore. After all, it is a miracle because it is almost impossible to do that, right?"
In the end, he decided to take a cautious approach, not wanting to be too optimistic in case anything went wrong. This was the right approach, as no one could guarantee that the players could make a miracle all the ti, even Sheva, who always did that. Also, he reminded everyone that Sheva’s montum in the Olympiad didn’t really an anything here other than making his opponent more wary of him, so it was better not to put too much hope in that.
Of course, Sheva himself was the one who knew about that the best. In fact, right after he stepped into this futuristic city, the boy had already gotten rid of all thoughts about the Olympiad. Right now, he was just an ordinary player, soone who was in 29th place in the initial standings instead of a favorite to win it all. It would be better to keep his head low and play steadily rather than being an arrogant asshole just to be knocked out by the others.
"Let’s have a good ga!" Both Sheva and Alexandr Predke shook hands with each other before the forr made his first move. In his mind, he recalled Predke’s stats that he had seen earlier.
[Na: Alexandr Predke]
Attacking 87
Defense 88
Calculation 89 ( 4.45)
Strategy 88
Intuition 84
Ti managent 89
Title Slot: [Russian Chess School’s Graduate]
[Note: With the effect of the title ’Russian Chess School’s Graduate’, Alexandr Predke gets a 5 percent boost for the calculation and will have an additional 20 percent in concentration during the endga phase]
If they were not in the middle of a ga already, Sheva would let out a whistle, impressed by the stats. It was a solid one and didn’t look special at first glance, but the title really boosted that man’s ability.
Just the addition of 5 percent in calculation was enough to put Alexandr Predke into the elite players of the world, and the 20 percent concentration boost for the endga phase, even though it was lower than Sheva’s endga master, which gave 30 percent, was still a big improvent, turning him into a beast in the final stage of the ga.
’Yeah, this title section sure is broken.’ Sheva smiled wryly.
He was not surprised by the effect because the mont the boy read the title, he could imdiately guess that. After all, the Russian Chess School, inheriting the Soviet Chess School’s curriculum, was infamous for ticulous analysis and mastery in the endga phase. Graduating from that school was enough to give the player a boost in calculation and the final phase.
However, Sheva had already made a plan to deal with that.
’Besides the endga mastery, those who graduate from the Russian Chess School have one more thing in common. They are very good at being flexible, especially for the opening line with a complicated theory in it. They are good at the blurred line, confusing their opponent and baiting them to make a mistake.’ Sheva recalled the mory of when Sergei Azarov, his teacher—even only for a very short ti—said in the past. ’So, let’s not indulge them to their best strength. Let’s go for a simple opening that doesn’t lead into an endga too quickly.’
Even though Sheva still had the endga master that boosted his concentration by 30 percent, he didn’t want to go into a ga where his opponent was the most. That would definitely be the stupidest thing that he could do in a chess ga.
So, when Sheva saw that Predke wanted to go for the Sicilian Defense, he didn’t hesitate to go with the Delayed Alapin variation. Even though it was less confrontational and put him in a passive state, this forced the ga out of the complicated theoretical line while also giving a solid setup, preventing the ga from going to the endga phase quickly. This was the perfect opening against soone like Alexandr Predke.
Seeing that everything went according to his plan, Sheva couldn’t help but smirk, glancing sideways at his opponent. ’Co on! Let’s see how you would turn this ga into your favorite style!’
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