Game of the Week XL-Mastrovasilis,Athanasios (2523) - Nikolov,Momchil (2522)

The best way to accomplish this that I can suggest would be to start by reviewing/playing well-known simple tactical motives and build on that; essentially: solve puzzles non-stop.

It’s like learning math: the foundation for mastering more complex branches of math is set by first learning simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division methods and using them whenever possible at school. I remember the satisfaction, for example, when I recognized the path to sin^2+cos^2=1
from a difficult problem in a calculus class because of pattern recognition that I had developed.

Combinations in chess are almost always based on simple patterns. The beauty of the combination and the artistic part of the game is observed when a complex of these patterns emerge in unknown territory and gives immense satisfaction to chess enthusiasts. I felt this phenomenon in this week’s Game of the Week.

Game of the Week is- Mastrovasilis vs. Nikolov

This week's Game of the Week was submitted by Jimonios- thank you!

This is the continuation of the Game of the Week series. All the previous weeks could be found here. Thank you for reading! If you find any noteworthy games that you think should appear on Game of the Week, please send me a message on lichess.org.

Please note that Game of the Week will cover games played from Saturday to Saturday of each week, and any games played on Sunday will go to the next week. See you next Sunday!
Contributors: Grandmaster Vasif Durarbayli
Edited by Della Almind