Round 3
A solid victory against Tunisia.
Davor Palo played fabulously one board one. His opponent very quickly got into a worse position and Davor then crunched the variations with something that looked like perfection. Positionally and tactically superb.
Round 2
Davor Palo was super solid against Kasimdzhanov. A great draw.
Allan Stig Rasmussen was doing well against their other strong GM, Anton Filippov. Allan was supposed to rest today, but a technical error meant that he got to play. In a position where he was somewhat better he decided “to go all in” with a poor move (f2-f4), when he was briefly after lost. The reasoning was that things were not clear on the last two boards. Tomorrow Allan will get his rest. One should not forget that he played Politiken Cup just before this event and did great. A bit of rest will bring back the best in him, I am sure.
I lost in 92 moves. The game was wildly complicated and in move 21 I believed I had found a really nice defence, but a weird blindness meant that I overlooked gxf3 in response to …Rxf3. It will probably end up in one of my books, as the right move was fantastic! Instead I went into an opposite coloured bishop ending with a pawn down. It was holdable towards the end at least, but he circled the pieces well and suddenly I was lost. A good game, even though I lost.
Jakob Vang Glud was sailing in his game until he played too complacently. Instead of a big advantage, he was suddenly struggling a bit. He found a lot of good resources and outplayed his opponent a second time. Well done.
A sad loss of 2.5-1.5. Also a stupid loss. I missed a few things too many, but I guess this is why I am only 2525. I am old and I don’t do the work needed to be better than this (nor do I intend to!).
Otherwise we are enjoying ourselves here. Nikos and I are watching True Detective, which is very weird and I am reading I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes, which is rather violent, but in a nice conventional laid back manner. Very enjoyable so far.
(Not sure how to make the diagrams working. Hopefully Jesse will fix them!)
I am this year playing for Denmark for the third time, following the European Team Championship 2011 and the 2012 Olympiad in Istanbul. I also played for Scotland in Turin 2006 and Dresden 2008.
Tromsø is a small town with roughly 60,000 inhabitants quite far north. I plan to use google to work out just how far. It is very beautiful and the view from the plane (when we got under the clouds) blew my gluey eye-lids apart. I am sure google will find better pictures than I can offer, so I will stay with a personal experience.
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In the autumn of 2013 I gave ten hours of training to a GM who has been struggling for years, unable to improve his play and slowly bleeding rating points. I felt he had certain problems in concrete positions, but in general needed to work more on improving his play.
After the sessions he sent me a long list of additional questions that I agreed to answer, if I was allowed to share them with the readers of the blog. As long as I kept his name confidential, he saw no problem with this.
As we are talking quite a lot of material, I have decided to cut up the Q&A session into five posts.
This post continues from last week’s post.
Judit Polgar turns 38 today. We are very privileged to publish her books, latest the ACP Book of the Year 2014 From GM to Top 10. And this week we received the final two chapters for A Game of Queens, meaning that we should be able to publish this final volume in September.
In the autumn of 2013 I gave ten hours of training to a GM who has been struggling for years, unable to improve his play and slowly bleeding rating points. I felt he had certain problems in concrete positions, but in general needed to work more on improving his play.
After the sessions he sent me a long list of additional questions that I agreed to answer, if I was allowed to share them with the readers of the blog. As long as I kept his name confidential, he saw no problem with this.
As we are talking quite a lot of material, I have decided to cut up the Q&A session into five posts over the summer.
This post continues from last weeks post.
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