Caldo e' pata

The chinese prodigy had already signed his trademark in his impressive win over Lazaro Bruzón (by many called "game of the century"), this time for the delightness of attacking chess fans, comes another "petit bouchee", this time against Vietnamese Dao Thien Hai, a respectable and experienced grandmaster. Wei played 1.e5 and guess what.. Dao replied 1..c5 , yes, the uncompromising sicilian defense, probably the most productive "candy factory" of beautiful chess games, the game went into the Najdorf variation with Bg5, on move 14 the position was already asking for some king of "sicilian" sacrificed and Wei proceded with 14. Nf5! in a punishing style. Just a couple of moves more and another sacrifice 16.Rxe6!, Wei just wanted to make the black king some dancing to finally claim a checkmate, see by yourself.

In one of the most unpredictable candidates tournament ever, the former prodigy child, russian GM Sergey Karjakin arose winner thanks to his win over direct opponent for the first place, italo-american GM Fabuano Caruana. With Anand out of run due to his loss over Nakamura, there were only two real contenders for the title and they were paired for one last, decisive game like a cinematographical ending. And they didn't dissapoint, Karjakin opened with 1.e4 and Caruana went "all in" by playing 1..c5, the sicilian defense, the defense of the brave, used in countless decisive games where there only option is to win, effectively Caruana succeded in creating an unbalanced position with chances for both sides, but Karjakin kept his nerve and once again like all the tournament, remained focused and determined, with brilliant tactics attacked the exposed black king and brought the point home to his motherland Russia. Now he will face the strongest player in the world, former p