Attacking Chess 101 · Road to GM, Game 383

A beautiful attack, precisely executed, with textbook patterns and ideas that are covered in every attacking manual ever written. Learn from this.
Tomic S. (1978) - Milanovic J. (1917)
Exchange QGD
Bošnjaci Open 2025, Rd.8

[@josipmilanovic7856]

I was his opponent, good game Stjepan

[@realmahadeo]

can you provide your analysis / opinion of the game?

[@pommesmitketchup2651]

Yeh analysis would be nice

[@cliffbunch2725]

Maybe a joint postmortem with Stjepan

[@josipmilanovic7856]

@realmahadeo Sure, obviously if you look at the engine it will say it was not really a perfect game from me, but if you look at this game purely from human's perspective, i was able to completely shut his play on the queenside and he never really had anything there from the beginning, and that is the main goal when playing queen's gambit, once i was able to shut the queenside, i think i was able to perform a quite effective and unstoppable attack from human's point of view, as Stjepan said in the end.

[@rbcdelta6561]

Great series. Games presented with clarity and honesty. Thanks for the content!

[@SumitVishwakarma-l2u]

Love your videos ❤❤

[@altrfryd5859]

He lost

[@alekhalloweenfan4047]

Yess another video!

[@sundayabe1383]

Good game Stjepan. You had a better position than your opponent because your opponent was playing one piece down for some parts of the game which was the bad bishop on b7.
Wishing you wins in your future games.

[@cobeferraro3464]

g3 committed the cardinal sin creating the hook. The opponent piled up nicely and built the pressure from there

[@prabhatkiranmukherje]

Hard luck Stjepan. A very tough tourney. You're still getting great positions in almost every game. So the problem is coming in the battle later on. Hope you find a way to fix those issues.

[@hossnizaarawi4608]

❤❤❤

[@johnbrady3369]

Are you playing in the Zagreb Classic? I am part of the Irish Chess Federation, Am I able to play in it?

[@HangingPawns]

You are, but I think there's already a waiting list. I won't be able to play. I'm moving and all I think of are boxes:D

[@johnbrady3369]

@ Best of luck with your move🙌🙌

[@clementevega896]

You should do a video about the Kings indican attack

[@TailOfBud]

How come you didn't play the final round?

[@thedilletante4401]

I personally think the Ne2 lines of the QGD are better after studying Botvinnik, and reading a 1.d4 book. Why attack on the queenside with minority attacks, when you can blow apart the center and attack on the kingside? In my own games, once the pawn started rolling or the f file got open, my opponents seemed to play like they were uncomfortable.