Noticed that Gelfand drew with Black against Giri, which has been a difficult opponent to him lately. And Caruana lost to Vachier-Legrave with White. Obviously there is a long way to go, but at the moment it looks to me as if Gelfand is leading the Grand Prix! I continue to believe that age is […]
It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Quality Chess author and National Coach of the Danish elite GM Lars Schandorff is coming to Edinburgh to give a 15 hour lecture on aggressive positional chess, with a starting point in the games of Bobby Fischer. The lectures will take place in Edinburgh Chess
GM Lars Schandorff lecture in Edinburgh 30th October – 2nd November Read Post »
On my way to winning the Largs congress this past weekend, I twice faced the Chigorin Defence against the Queen’s Gambit. I haven’t faced this too often, but I could remember the basics of Avrukh’s repertoire in Grandmaster Repertoire 1. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 dxc4 In the first round my opponent played rather passively
Two games versus the Chigorin Read Post »
The Tromso Olympiad ended earlier today. I will start with a photo from earlier this week of the television in the house the Scottish men stayed in. What’s the point? That is a snapshot of the five hours of live coverage the main Norwegian TV channel had of the Olympiad each day. Magnus Carlsen is
Scotland in Tromso – The End Read Post »
Round 10 was another disappointment. Davor held a draw against a good player on board one, while Mads and I had winning chances on boards 3 and 4. At some point Mads entirely lost control and went from winning to entirely lost. A draw was a lucky result. I had the advantage when I mixed
Diary from a fried brain – End of Tromso Olympiad Read Post »
Round 9 What a horrible day. Jakob has just resigned in what looks like a drawn ending. How easy it is to hold, I don’t know, but this is not what we deserved. I will see what FinalGen says. The game plan was three draws and then Jakob win on board 3 against David Howell.
Diary from the Tromso Olympiad – Day 9 Read Post »
4-0 against Norway 3. Everything was going well for me, when I blundered badly in move 22, completely missing …f5. After this it was sort of even, maybe with a slight plus for me. Eventually I got a better ending, which he defended badly (…f3 helps me immensely). The rest of the team had to
Diary from the Tromso Olympiad – Round 8 Read Post »
Finally I got a rest day! Which also means (thinking of the playing hall) that I did not go there. But I did follow the games a bit on the Internet. Davor Palo got a slightly worse position and was ground down. Chess is hard sometimes. Allan Stig Rasmussen got what he had prepared and
Diary from the Tromso Olympiad – Round 7 Read Post »