Working on Boris Gelfand’s book Positional Decision Making in Chess, I came across a rather fascinating combination in one of the notes to his beautiful win against Grischuk in Beijing last year. The game deals a lot with changes in pawn structure, but at this point, White has won the strategic battle, fixing the f5-pawn […]
First, a test position. Find the strongest continuation for White. The solution can be found at move 24 of the game below. Andrew Greet – Basil Laidlaw Glasgow 2014 On encountering the Nimzo-Indian in this recent game, I decided to try out Lars Schandorff’s recommendation of 4.e3 followed by Ne2, even though I couldn’t remember
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The winner of the Whitsun Grandmasters tournament in Copenhagen was Bulgarian GM Krasimir Rusev with 6½/9 . Two Quality Chess authors took part: Axel Smith scored 50% in the GM-group, while Silas (Esben) Lund won the IM-group with 6/9. Quality Chess sponsored a “Game of the Round” prize and a selection of the winning games can be
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Quality Chess, is sponsoring “Best game of the round” in the Whitsun Grandmasters in Copenhagen, with both players involved in the game getting a book prize. The games are selected by IA Peter Olsen. In round 2 there were only three decisive games, all in the IM group. The best game of the round was
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Quality Chess, is sponsoring “Best game of the round” in the Whitsun Grandmasters tournament in Copenhagen. Drop by the website to see live games. In round one, there were a couple of candidate games (Bech Hansen – Carstensen and Hector – Aabling-Thomsen), but one game was shining just a little bit brighter: GM Rusev –
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We are supporting two round robin tournaments in Denmark this year. A GM- and an IM-group played in one of Copenhagen’s nicest chess clubs. Drop by the website for live games if you need distraction from your work… The tournament starts the 3rd of June.
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In my book I wrote that “over the board it is clear that the King’s Gambit is effective at all levels up to and including 2800+.” Maybe I should revise that to “all levels up to and including 3100+.” At the recent clash of the best engines in the world (the “TCEC Supermatch”) Stockfish
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My oldest daughter won the u300 (yup Scottish rating) event in Airdrie yesterday. She scored 7/8. Obviously the level is not that high, but for a six-year-old, it can still be intimidating. Actually, we had mentally prepared for her losing all her games, as she did in an event in Edinburgh in March. This is