If you quickly play the game in this video, you might think that Daníil Dúbov’s victim is a much lower level player than him, given the great joy with which the Russian attacks and sacrifices material. But it would be a big mistake: his opponent, and compatriot, is Sergei Kariakin, runner-up in the world in 2016 after forcing Magnus Carlsen to beat him in the quick tiebreaker of the New York duel.
It is further proof that there are still stars of mental sports who could well have been born in the 19th century, when the romantic style marked the way almost everyone played. And Dubov is, without a doubt, one of them.
