This is absolutely astonishing. Black wins in a really beautiful way. Very, very hard to find. I mean very hard. Let’s take the solution in the new year!
Thank you all for playing along!
In some countries the presents are opened on Christmas Eve, in others 1-2 days later. Luckily every day is Christmas here on the QC blog. Now back to work Colin, Andrew and you, Mr Bob Cratchit!
More candidates. Imagination is necessary to enjoy Christmas, after we did the hard work on the endings. White to play and make Black’s life entirely miserable.
Behind this door we find a very promising position. But pay attention!
Sometimes it is Christmas in January and sometimes not. I feel for Adam Hunt who failed to crown a decent chess career with a victory against a World Champion…
With one student rated about 2600 I recently had a session where he had failed to solve a lot of his homework. When I asked him the three questions, he would then almost instantly solve half of the positions he had previously failed to solve . Obviously he had the advantage of having spent time working on them already, but it still shows that when you are stuck, making a simple analysis about what is important in the position, just to aim your mind in the right direction, can be extremely useful.
With so little time remaining until the holidays (and all those big events coming up), it is time to take the training seriously. From here on, it will only get harder.
An easier one today. After all, today we are publishing Carlsen’s Assault on the Throne, From GM to Top Ten and Grandmaster Repertoire 15 – The French Defence 2
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