That you get to play two 2500-rated International Masters in a tournament, but fortunately last night I did exactly that. Here are the games, annotated, from last night’s Friday Night Action where I squared off against IM Dionisio Aldama and IM Altin Celaj.
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Sometimes, when playing blitz… well, lots of times really, I invent openings as I go along. One of my special favorites is an opening that I have named the “Billy Club” defense. It is in response to the exchange variation of the Ruy Lopez, a main line which I have re-named the “Yawn Attack.” Thus […]
So… Topalov puts his title up for grabs twice to 2700’s, and now Kramnik hides behind FIDE’s distrust of a Bulgarian bank? For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Danailov’s open letter of complaint was put up on www.chessbase.com during the middle of the Corus tournament at Wijk An Zee.
Corus […]
After a night’s consultation with NM Tim McEntee, we were able to figure out puzzle number 4 by bouncing ideas back and forth. I published the entire solution, with a comprehensive explanation of how I arrived at it.
Read the solution to SELFMATE IN FOUR MOVES by clicking here
So far, I’ve worked on four of the chessbase Christmas puzzles, numbers 7, 5, 4, and 1 and have successfully solved two of those four. I will publish my answers online tonight, the day before we are supposed to get the official lines from chessbase.
Answer to puzzle 1
Click “more” below to see some spoilers and […]