Roelof Berkepeis's video: Chess Fuga

The young chess prodigy FM Ilya Makoveev plays a blitz game against IM Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo. It's a French Defense. With move animation and music. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J0e4kPOHj0 - sorry for the poor video quality .. it seems this was recorded by capturing a television output : we see the Hertz flickering .. colors are also rather poor. Music: J.S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565, by Marie-Claire Alain, 1961 (minus 8 percent tempo change, without changing pitch) 2019@ArtFlow - all rights respected Ilya Makoveev started playing chess at the age of five. Since 2012 he has lived in Gelendzhik (Krasnodar Krai). In 2014, Ilya Makoveev won Russian Youth Chess Championship in the U08 age group, but in 2015, he repeated this success in the U11 age group. In 2016, Ilya Makoveev won the Russian Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in the U11 age group, but in 2017 he repeated this double victory in U13 age group. The French Defense is one of the most trusted openings in chess, popular at all levels from beginner to strong grandmasters. It has been used in the past by Mikhail Botvinnik, Viktor Korchnoi, Tigran Petrosian, Rafael Vaganian and Wolfgang Uhlmann, among others, but also by many leading grandmasters today. Wesley So, Ding Liren and Alexander Morozevich all regularly rely on the French Defense as one of their major opening weapons and thus make its high reliability evident. The French Opening is a semi-closed chess opening for Black which occurs after the moves 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 (see the position on the right). The opening got its name in 1834 in honor of several French players who used it in a correspondence match between the cities of London and Paris. [Event "Blitz game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/W84TsvAO"] [Date "201?.??.??"] [White "FM Ilya Makoveev"] [Black "IM Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 b6 5. Qg4 Bf8 6. Nf3 Qd7 7. Be3 Ne7 8. O-O-O Ba6 9. Kb1 Ng6 10. h4 h5 11. Qg3 Ne7 12. Ng5 Nf5 13. Qf3 Bxf1 14. Rdxf1 Nc6 15. Rd1 O-O-O 16. Qe2 Kb7 17. g3 Rc8 18. Ka1 Bb4 19. Nb1 f6 20. exf6 gxf6 21. Nf3 e5 22. dxe5 fxe5 23. Qb5 Rcd8 24. Nxe5 Nxe5 25. Qxb4 Nxe3 26. fxe3 Ng4 27. Rhe1 Nf2 28. Rd2 Ne4 29. Rd3 Nxg3 30. e4 Qg4 31. Qb3 Nxe4 32. Rxd5 Nd6 33. Nd2 Rhe8 34. Rc1 Qxh4 35. Qf3 Kb8 36. Rxh5 Qe7 37. Rd5 Rf8 38. Qd3 Nb7 39. Nb3 Rxd5 40. Qxd5 Rd8 41. Qf3 a5 42. Rd1 Rf8 43. Qd3 Rd8 44. Qf3 a4 45. Nd4 Na5 46. c3 a3 47. b4 c5 48. Qf4+ Qc7 49. Qxc7+ Kxc7 50. Ne6+ Kc6 51. Nxd8+ 1-0