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Judit came up to me at lunch and expressed her regret that we were not playing. However, it was not possible, if Lars had played, I was ripe for a rest. However, I look forward to a tough game with Almasi this afternoon.
Judit came up to me at lunch and expressed her regret that we were not playing. However, it was not possible, if Lars had played, I was ripe for a rest. However, I look forward to a tough game with Almasi this afternoon.
What was Nh5?? all about. And Qd7? I saw Nxe6 right after I played it. Somehow this cost some confidence too…
Round 9 – Let me be! Read Post »
Nikos and I have worked a lot on the Grandmaster Repertoire 1.e4 books already (although they have been pushed back a bit back to make room for the Grandmaster Preparation series), but I still decided to go for The Scotch against Norway yesterday. Very quickly he made a small mistake (13…Ne7 instead of 13…Nb6 followed
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One of my favourite sites on the net is www.chesscafe.com, where you can get interesting articles and reviews of a high quality. About a year ago they changed their review system from five to four stars, without making it obvious for people like myself who suffer from mouse-clicking-too-fast syndrom. A number of 4/4 reviews were
Marie and I did not play for Denmark yesterday due to human error. Her captain had forgotten to put in the changes in the team and they played one to four. My captain did not select me. The signing was great; Avrukh signed 100s of books and over 10 authors showed up. The Turkish Federation
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The Danish team is really not performing well. We won the match today 2.5-1.5 against Algeria, but we were hoping for 4-0! First Sune played an automatic move, not hesitating at all, to see that he had to prevent …b6-b5, even though he had prepared this! A quick draw was disappointing… Then Lars blundered in