Defend Accurately
Adams games reward careful resistance. Look for moves that remove threats without giving up activity or long-term structure.
Study Adams games through interactive Guess the Move training. Play through Michael Adams's wins, practice calm calculation, resilient defense, and clean technical conversion, and track your score and accuracy.

Choose a Adams game, play through the winning side's moves, and return here to review your score and accuracy. This table is built for players who want to study Adams games actively instead of replaying them passively.
| Game | Event | Year | Moves | Played | Current move | Score | Correct | Accuracy | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Judit Polgar - Michael Adams 0-1 | Dos Hermanas, Dos Hermanas ESP | 1999 | 45 | No | - | - | - | - | Start |
Alexander Morozevich - Michael Adams 0-1 | Corus Group A, Wijk aan Zee NED | 2001 | 27 | No | - | - | - | - | Start |
Michael Adams - Vladimir Eduardovich Akopian 1-0 | Armenia - The Rest of the World, Moscow RUS | 2004 | 25 | No | - | - | - | - | Start |
Michael Adams - Veselin Topalov 1-0 | Corus Group A, Wijk aan Zee NED | 2006 | 42 | No | - | - | - | - | Start |
Michael Adams - Magnus Carlsen 1-0 | Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad, Khanty-Mansiysk RUS | 2010 | 38 | No | - | - | - | - | Start |
Adams games reward careful resistance. Look for moves that remove threats without giving up activity or long-term structure.
Many Adams wins show patient technical follow-up. Ask which exchange, pawn break, or king move makes the advantage easier to use.
Quiet positions still need calculation. Use each guess to verify tactics before choosing the most natural positional move.
Study Adams games slowly. Write down your candidate moves, choose one move, and only then compare your decision with the game. The value comes from noticing why a great player preferred one plan over another.
This page is a focused entry point for players looking for Adams games, ways to study Adams games, world champion game study, and online Guess the Move chess practice.
Adams Games are interactive Guess the Move lessons built from Michael Adams's games. Instead of replaying the moves passively, you study Adams games by choosing the move you think the player played.
Choose a game from the table, calculate candidate moves before each turn, play your move on the board, and then compare it with the historical game move, engine feedback, score, and accuracy.
Yes. The table shows completed games, resumable games, current move, score, correct moves, and accuracy when progress data is available.
Start from the Adams games table above, or use the main Guess the Move trainer to choose a master game and begin move-by-move training.