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Chess Contents Founding Editor: B.H 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...Vladislav Artemiev .......................................................7 Twitter: @CHESS_Magazine The winner of Gibraltar is a big fan of boxing and its greats Twitter: @TelegraphChess - Malcolm Pein Website: www.chess.co.uk The Magnus-ficent Seven................................................................................8 Carlsen won as Kramnik retired at Wijk, watched by Yochanan Afek Subscription Rates: United Kingdom How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................18 1 year (12 issues) £49.95 Daniel King presents a crushing win by the world champion 2 year (24 issues) £89.95 3 year (36 issues) £125 Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................21 Can you do as well as the players at the 4NCL? Europe 1 year (12 issues) £60 Quality Training .................................................................................................24 2 year (24 issues) £112.50 IM John Pigott reports from the Quality Chess Training Academy 3 year (36 issues) £165 USA & Canada Rock Solid.............................................................................................................26 1 year (12 issues) $90 The stars again descended on Gibraltar, but Artemiev was too strong 2 year (24 issues) $170 3 year (36 issues) $250 The End of an Era ..............................................................................................30 Vladimir Kramnik has unfortunately played his last classical game Rest of World (Airmail) 1 year (12 issues) £72 The New Wizard.................................................................................................32 2 year (24 issues) £130 Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan on their experience of AlphaZero 3 year (36 issues) £180 Distributed by: Attack and Combine: Kurt Richter............................................................34 Post Scriptum (UK only), Craig Pritchett on a new McFarland work and a fine attacking player Unit G, OYO Business Park, Hindmans Way, Dagenham, RM9 6LN - Tel: 020 8526 7779 The Captain and the Chess Legend...........................................................40 Bob Jones on archaeology, Captain Flinders and Philidor LMPI (North America) 8155 Larrey Street, Montreal (Quebec), Studies with Stephenson...............................................................................42 H1J 2L5, Canada - Tel: 514 355-5610 Brian reports on this year’s International Solving Contest Views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Editors. Contributions to Never Mind the Grandmasters...................................................................44 the magazine will be published at the Editors’ Carl Portman enjoyed watching a brutal win by Jake Hurley discretion and may be shortened if space is limited. The Future of Chess in Education..............................................................46 No parts of this publication may be reproduced Sean Marsh enjoyed the sixth London Chess Conference without the prior express permission of the publishers. All rights reserved. © 2018 Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................47 Chess Magazine (ISSN 0964-6221) is published by: Chess & Bridge Ltd, 44 Baker St, London, W1U 7RT Home News..........................................................................................................48 Tel: 020 7288 1305 Fax: 020 7486 7015 Keith Arkell, Ameet Ghasi and Danny Gormally have been in good form Email: [email protected], Website: www.chess.co.uk Overseas News...................................................................................................52 FRONT COVER: Gerard Depardieu will star in a chess-related film Cover Design: Matt Read Cover image: Niki Riga Solutions ...............................................................................................................53 Did you win our Batsford competition? US & Canadian Readers – You can contact us via our American branch – Chess4Less based in West Palm This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................55 Beach, FL. Call toll-free on 1-877 89CHESS (24377). You can even order Subscriber Special Offers online Our reviewers have been busy enjoying world title matches via www.chess4less.com Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58 John thinks we should all be playing with smaller boards and sets Printed in the UK by The Magazine Printing Company using only paper from FSC/PEFC Photo credits: DeepMind (p.33), Maria Emelianova (p.18), Harry Gielen (pp.9-13, 15), suppliers www.magprint.co.uk Lars OA Hedlund (p.47), Lennart Ootes (pp. 4-6, 30, 50), John Saunders (pp. 7, 26-28, 58), Quality Chess (p.24). www.chess.co.uk 3 Find the Winning Moves 24 puzzles to test your tactical ability, with, as ever, the positions grouped in rough order of difficulty. The games come from various recent events, such as the 4NCL, although we do revisit that feast that was the London Chess Classic. Don’t forget that whilst sometimes the key move will force mate or the win of material, other times it will just win a pawn. Solutions on page 53. Warm-up Puzzles (1) E.Paehtz-S.White (2) J.Burnett-J.Carpenter (3) B.Hymer-M.Bramson 4NCL, Daventry 2018 4NCL, Doncaster 2019 4NCL, Doncaster 2019 White to Play White to Play White to Play (4) D.Kjartansson-S.Bergsson (5) M.Adams-S.Williams (6) J.McKenna-M.Leanse Reykjavik 2019 British Knockout Ch., London 2018 Surrey vs Middlesex, London 2019 White to Play White to Play Black to Play www.chess.co.uk 21 The New Wizard Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan worked with the phenomena that is AlphaZero ahead of their new book, Game Changer. Here they share some of their experiences One of the most enjoyable aspects of working with AlphaZero and analysing its games has been the dual feeling of familiarity and originality. Much of AlphaZero’s play echoes the best practices built up in hundreds of years of human play, but AlphaZero often implements these ideas with a special twist. A fundament of AlphaZero’s play is a keen awareness of the relative safety of both kings. AlphaZero tries – with great success in the match against Stockfish – to manoeuvre its opponent into a situation in which the opponent’s king is exposed while AlphaZero’s own king is completely safe, often at the cost of the sacrifice of a couple of pawns. One way in which AlphaZero achieves this goal is via what we have called ‘The March of the Rook’s pawn’, in which typically AlphaZero launches its h-pawn against the opponent’s kingside, aiming to push it all the way to h6 (as White). Whether this advance is met with ...g6 or ...gxh6, Black’s kingside is weakened and offers less of a haven for the king. In our book we also look extensively at games in which Stockfish tries to block the h-pawn at White’s dark-squared bishop and now an earlier stage with ...h5 or ...h6: AlphaZero G.Kasparov-P.Nikolic Kasparov uses his h-pawn to loosen things up has a plan for that too. Paris (rapid) 1994 even further. AlphaZero’s play has a human-like rhythm French Defence 15...gxh6 16 Íxh6+ Êg8 17 Îb1 Ì7g6 and purpose to it, so it’s not surprising that 18 Îb4 some of AlphaZero’s games have striking 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Ìc3 Íb4 4 e5 c5 5 a3 parallels with great human games of the past. Íxc3+ 6 bxc3 Ìe7 7 Ëg4 Êf8 8 h4 One set of games we show in our book takes place in the French Winawer in which AlphaZero’s play echoes a classic game of Garry Kasparov’s in a quite uncanny way, as the following extracts from our book show. Let’s start by refreshing our memory of Garry’s game: Historical Parallel: Kasparov’s system against the French Winawer In the 1990’s the great Garry Kasparov developed a dangerous system against the French Winawer system (1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Fantastic mobility of the white rooks. Every- Ìc3 Íb4). In this system, Black gives up the thing is going to participate in the attack. dark-squared bishop at an early stage to create 8...Ëc7 9 Ëd1 18...Ìxf3+ 19 gxf3 Ëe5 20 f4 Ëc3+ and fix pawn weaknesses in White’s position (4 White retreats the queen to deal with the 21 Êf1 f5 22 Îb3 Ëf6 23 c4 b6 24 e5 c5 5 a3 Íxc3+ 6 bxc3), which can then be threat of ...cxd4 and then ...Ëc3+, winning cxd5 Íb7 25 Îd3 Îe8 26 Îg1 b5 27 attacked with minor pieces and the black the rook on a1. Black takes the opportunity dxe6 Îxe6 28 Îd8+ Êf7 29 Îd7+ Îe7 queen. Garry’s concept for White was to create to nick the d-pawn, but this merely signals 30 Îxb7 1-0 weaknesses on the other side by pushing the the start of a powerful assault. h-pawn to h6 to expose dark-squared 9...cxd4 10 cxd4 Ëc3+ 11 Íd2 Ëxd4 A wonderful game that contains the weaknesses there, willing even to sacrifice his 12 Ìf3 Ëe4+ 13 Íe2 Ìbc6 14 h5 Ìxe5 features that we admired in AlphaZero’s central pawn chain to expose additional dark 15 h6 games: the rapid advance of the rook’s pawn, squares. The following phenomenal game Black’s capture of White’s central d4- and disregard for material equality, sacrificing for against Predrag Nikolic is a
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