Quality Chess co-sponsors the Herbert Garrett Memorial grant in Italy, which supports up and coming talents; previously Vocaturo and Caruana, who are now GM’s. This year’s award was presented by World no. 6, Israeli GM Boris Gelfand. If you read Italian, you can find some information about the award here. On the Sunday we all […]
Only draw with Boris Gelfand Read Post »
In his excellent Checkpoint column at Chesscafe, FM Carsten Hansen gives Sabino Brunello’s Attacking the Spanish a 5/5 review. However, Quality Chess does get some criticism for being too pushy with our author: “The back cover tell us that the author “is one of the leaders of the youthful revival in Italian chess” and that
ChessCafe review of ATTACKING THE SPANISH Read Post »
If you have always wanted to watch two International Masters playing chess 400 feet off the ground in a helium-filled balloon, then today is your lucky day. During the recent British Championship IMs Andrew Greet and Jack Rudd (rivals from the neighbouring English counties of Cornwall and Devon) played just such a match. Andrew has
Chess for Ballooners Read Post »
Our authors have been playing great chess recently. At the very strong Politiken Cup in Denmark, Boris Avrukh was first equal, while Tiger Hillarp Persson won the Best Game Prize. Lars Schandorff scored a respectable 7/10. Mihail Marin played a couple of tournaments. He was first in Benasque (with 9/11) and second in Andorra. These
1.d4 d4 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Be4 7.f3 Bg6 8.Qb3 This is a line recommended by Boris Avrukh in Grandmaster Repertoire 1: 1.d4. The usual replies are 8…Qb6 and 8…Qc7. In January this year Sweden’s No.1, Tiger Hillarp Persson, introduced a stunning new idea: 8…b5!!? Last month, in a training
Tiger’s Novelty in the Slav vs. Avrukh’s 1.d4 Read Post »
Boris has written a bit about GM Repertoire 1 at his site. Visit it at: http://avrukhboris.wordpress.com/my-first-book/
Boris Avrukh on 1.d4 on his own blog Read Post »
Although not individually, this time… We have promised to recommend people to go to http://avrukhboris.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/we-are-the-champions/ if they are looking for top training from one of the best players in the world, Boris Avrukh. There you will also find the story behind the headline. Jacob
Boris Avrukh Israeli Champion Read Post »
In the recent Mitropa Cup Sabino Brunello seemed on his way to make his final GM-norm, but for some reason Italy did not field the strongest team in the 8th round, and Brunello was elevated from the 3rd to the 2nd board, and for this reason did not play a third grandmaster, which he would
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