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Chess Mag - 21 6 10 13/12/2019 18:34 Page 3 01-01 Cover_Layout 1 13/12/2019 18:41 Page 1 03-03 Contents_Chess mag - 21_6_10 13/12/2019 18:34 Page 3 Chess Contents Founding Editor: B.H. Wood, OBE. M.Sc † Executive Editor: Malcolm Pein Editorial....................................................................................................................4 Editors: Richard Palliser, Matt Read Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game Associate Editor: John Saunders Subscriptions Manager: Paul Harrington 60 Seconds with...GM Mihail Marin ............................................................7 Twitter: @CHESS_Magazine The leading chess writer still loves to travel to tournaments Twitter: @TelegraphChess - Malcolm Pein Website: www.chess.co.uk How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................12 The Petroff remains under attack, as shown by Daniel King Subscription Rates: United Kingdom So Near, But Yet... ............................................................................................16 1 year (12 issues) £49.95 Luke McShane outplayed the world no.2, and almost won 2 year (24 issues) £89.95 Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................18 3 year (36 issues) £125 Europe Monster Mash comes to Daventry ...........................................................19 1 year (12 issues) £60 The Terafinal saw some epic battles, which Tim Wall enjoyed 2 year (24 issues) £112.50 3 year (36 issues) £165 Finland, Finland, Finland.................................................................................23 James Essinger reports from the country where he wants to be USA & Canada 1 year (12 issues) $90 The Best of 2019 .............................................................................................26 2 year (24 issues) $170 Sean Marsh rounds up his favourite books of the past year 3 year (36 issues) $250 Rest of World (Airmail) Six of the Best!..................................................................................................30 1 year (12 issues) £72 Movie buff Michael Renouf on what to watch over Christmas 2 year (24 issues) £130 3 year (36 issues) £180 The Christmas Quiz..........................................................................................32 Will you manage to solve our teasers over the festive period? Distributed by: Post Scriptum (UK only), Chess for Life......................................................................................................34 Unit G, OYO Business Park, Hindmans Way, BH Wood’s former opponent Eugene Salomon is still playing at 91 Dagenham, RM9 6LN - Tel: 020 8526 7779 The Wily Hendriks Experience.....................................................................36 LMPI (North America) 8155 Larrey Street, Montreal (Quebec), Did you know John Henderson is a Hendrix and a Hendriks fan? H1J 2L5, Canada - Tel: 514 355-5610 On the Comeback Trail ...................................................................................38 Views expressed in this publication are not Bernard Hare enjoyed his first Scarborough Congress in many a year necessarily those of the Editors. Contributions to the magazine will be published at the Editors’ The Kan Crushed................................................................................................39 discretion and may be shortened if space is limited. Carl Strugnell continues to enjoy facing the Sicilian No parts of this publication may be reproduced Never Mind the Grandmasters...................................................................42 without the prior express permission of the publishers. Carl continues to be rather annoyed by those who eat at the board All rights reserved. © 2019 Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................44 Chess Magazine (ISSN 0964-6221) is published by: Chess & Bridge Ltd, 44 Baker St, London, W1U 7RT Can you do as well as the players on the Isle of Man? Tel: 020 7288 1305 Fax: 020 7486 7015 Overseas News...................................................................................................48 Email: [email protected], Website: www.chess.co.uk Magnus Carlsen was utterly dominant at the Tata Steel Rapid FRONT COVER: Home News..........................................................................................................52 Cover Design: Matt Read Cover image: iStock All the latest results and the ECF Book of the Year winner US & Canadian Readers – You can contact us via our Solutions ...............................................................................................................54 American branch – Chess4Less based in West Palm Beach, FL. Call toll-free on 1-877 89CHESS (24377). This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................55 You can even order Subscriber Special Offers online Ben Graff very much enjoyed Jonathan Rowson’s new work via www.chess4less.com Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58 John rounds up the Classic and reflects on the London Conference Printed in the UK by The Magazine Printing Company using only paper from FSC/PEFC Photo credits: Maria Calo (p.23), Valeria Gordienko/World Chess (p.48), IMSA (p.51), suppliers www.magprint.co.uk Lennart Ootes (pp.16, 18, 49, 52, 58), John Saunders (p.13), Elina Välkesalmi (p.24). www.chess.co.uk 3 16-18 McShaneCaruana_Chess mag - 21_6_10 13/12/2019 17:25 Page 16 So Near, But Yet.. Luke McShane outplayed the world no.2, but ran into stiff resistance One of the highlights of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss was the fifth round epic battle between Luke McShane and Fabiano Caruana, which we’re delighted to bring you with notes from the player who came tantalisingly close to success. L.McShane-F.Caruana Isle of Man 2019 Spanish Four Knights 1 e4 e5 2 Ìf3 Ìc6 3 Ìc3 Ìf6 4 Íb5 Íd6 5 d3 0-0 6 0-0 I started to daydream for a few minutes about playing 6 g4!? Ìxg4 7 Îg1 Ìf6 8 Íh6 with an attack, before realising I had better do something sober. 6...h6 7 Êh1 Îe8 8 Íxc6 bxc6 9 Ìg1 Íf8 10 f4 exf4 11 Íxf4 The position is unbalanced, but perhaps Black is to be preferred. 11...d5 12 e5 Íg4 12...Ìd7 13 Ëh5 is an unclear alternative. 13 Ëd2 Ìh5 14 Îae1 Îb8 15 h3 Ìxf4 16 Ëxf4 Íh5 17 Ìd1 Îb4 18 Ëf2 c5 19 b3 Îb6 20 Ìf3 Îbe6 21 Ìe3 Ëd7? Luke McShane now writes every week in The Spectator, but remains very much an active player and made excellent use of the knight-pair to have Fabiano Caruana on the ropes. d5 10 Îe1 0-0 11 Ëe2 b5 12 Íc2 Îc8 16...bxc4 17 Ìxc4 e5 18 f4 exf4 13 g4 Íg6 14 Ìh4 d4 15 c4 Ìd7 16 Ìg2 19 Ìxf4 Ìce5 20 Íb3 Ìxc4 21 Íxc4 Ìb6 22 b3 Ìxc4 23 bxc4 Îb8 24 Ìd5 Íd6 25 e5 Îe8 26 Íf4 Íf8 27 Íg3 Îb7 Suddenly, I noticed that this careless move 28 h4 h6 29 Îf1 Êh8 30 Îae1 Ëc8 allows me to pose serious issues. 21...f6 was 31 Ëf3 Íh7 32 g5 hxg5 33 hxg5 Îb2 the right move, with a small edge for Black. 34 Ëh5 Ëe6 35 Îxf7 Êg8 36 Ìf6+ 1-0, 22 g4 Íg6 23 Ìg2! McShane-Sasikiran, Hastings 2002/3. Backwards knight moves are never easy to 23...c4 spot, particularly when there is a tempting move 23...Íh7 24 Ìf4 Îa6 25 e6! was my forwards to f5. I vaguely remembered the con- idea, and if 25...fxe6 26 Ìe5 Ëd8 (26...Ëe7 tours of my game with Sasikiran from Hastings, is better, but still very awkward) 27 Ìh5 which perhaps helped me to notice this move. Îxa2 28 Ëf7+ Êh8 29 Îe2 followed by the In that game the knight also occupied the g2- crude Îe2-f2 and Ëxf8+. square, but later became a monster on d5: 24 Ìf4 cxd3 25 cxd3 Íb4 1 e4 c5 2 Ìf3 d6 3 Íc4 Ìf6 4 d3 Ìc6 5 0-0 25...Îa6 26 e6! wins an exchange in Íg4 6 Ìbd2 e6 7 h3 Íh5 8 c3 Íe7 9 Íb3 favourable circumstances. January 2020 16 16-18 McShaneCaruana_Chess mag - 21_6_10 13/12/2019 17:25 Page 17 26 Îd1 beginning to melt, and I did not play this A passive square, chosen reluctantly calmly. It is a bad move, but not for the (26 Îe2 c5 27 Ìxe6 fxe6 28 Îd1 Îf8 reason that worried me. 39 h4 required more looked very active for Black), but it does composure than I could muster, but maintains defend the d3-pawn. all White’s advantages. 26...Î6e7 27 Ëxa7 39...fxe6? Why not? 39...Ëxg5! 40 exd7 Îe4!! forces a draw, 27...Íh7 28 Ëd4 c5 29 Ëxd5 Ëa7 though it’s extraordinary to leave the pawn 30 Ëc4 Ëxa2 31 g5 hxg5 32 Ìxg5 on d7 like this: for example, 41 Ëa6 Îxg4+ 42 hxg4 Ëxg4+ 43 Êh2 Ëh4+ 44 Êg2 Íe4+ 45 Îf3 Ëg4+ 46 Êh2 Ëh4+ with a perpetual. 40 Ìxe6 Ëb8 Not 40...Ëh4? 41 Ìf6+, while 40...Îxe6 is the move I had to calculate before pushing 39 e6, but it was making my head spin. After 48 Ëh4+! 41 dxe6 Îxd1 42 e7+ Ëd5 I hallucinated a Another move I was pleased with, since mate in two, with 43 Ëxd5+ and 44 Îf8 there was a tempting false path: 48 Îd7 mate, since in my mind’s eye the g4-knight Íc3! defends against both Ìf6+ and Ëh6+. was on g5. Upon realising my mistake, 48...Êg8 49 Ëg3 Êh7 50 Ìf2! I panicked, until I noticed that the prosaic A further good retreat. 43 Îxd1 wins instantly, since Black’s queen 50...Ëc2 is pinned. 50...Ëf5 loses: 51 Ìd3 Ëe4 52 Îf4 Ëe3+ 41 d6! 53 Ëxe3 Îxe3 54 Ìxb4 cxb4 55 Îh4+ and Reaching the time control allowed for a wins. White is a pawn up and the knights are long think. The first point of business is to 51 Ìd3 Íe4 very dangerous, so I felt things were heading prevent the check on g3, and after perhaps 51...Íxd3 52 Îxd3 offers Black very little in the right direction. I handled the following half an hour, I decided this looked very promising. in the way of hope, as White can attack on moves well, but navigating this weird position 41...Îxd6 42 Ìc7+ Îde6 43 Îd7 the light squares. put a strain on my nerves. All as expected. White’s biggest threat 52 Ëg5 here is 44 f6+ gxf6 45 xf6, when Black 32...Ëa8+ 33 Êg1 Ëc6 Ì Î Threatening Ëh5+. 33...Ëb8! was a better defence. After will soon be mated. 52...Ëe2! 34 Ìd5 Ëxe5 35 Ìxe7+ Îxe7 36 Ëf4 Ëxf4 43...Êh8 44 Ëf4 37 Îxf4 Íg6 Black has reasonable chances A good move, as planned after the time to defend, as the bishop-pair is strong.
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