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01-01 Cover_Layout 1 20/02/2020 18:08 Page 1 02-02 New in Chess Advert_Layout 1 20/02/2020 18:09 Page 1 03-03 Contents_Chess mag - 21_6_10 20/02/2020 18:10 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...Tania Sachdev .................................................................7 Twitter: @CHESS_Magazine The Indian IM and WGM is a big fan of The Seven Deadly Chess Sins Twitter: @TelegraphChess - Malcolm Pein Website: www.chess.co.uk Fabi gets on a Roll ...............................................................................................8 Yochanan Afek watched Caruana’s first triumph at Wijk aan Zee Subscription Rates: United Kingdom Another New Champion! ...............................................................................16 1 year (12 issues) £49.95 David Paravyan won a playoff to triumph at Gibraltar 2 year (24 issues) £89.95 Magical Majorca.................................................................................................20 3 year (36 issues) £125 Stephen Gordon always enjoys his visits to the Llucmajor Open Europe 1 year (12 issues) £60 Augsburg Adventures .....................................................................................24 2 year (24 issues) £112.50 Carl Strugnell once again enjoyed a post-Christmas trip to Bavaria 3 year (36 issues) £165 Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................26 USA & Canada Can you do as well as the players at Hastings and in the 4NCL? 1 year (12 issues) $90 2 year (24 issues) $170 At Last! Karpov-Fischer!...............................................................................30 3 year (36 issues) $250 John Saunders saw Anatoly Karpov play Robert Fischer on the Rock Rest of World (Airmail) 1 year (12 issues) £72 Endgame Masterclass......................................................................................32 2 year (24 issues) £130 Jonathan Speelman presents a couple of instructive endings 3 year (36 issues) £180 Readers’ Letters ................................................................................................35 Distributed by: The longest decisive game without a single capture? Post Scriptum (UK only), Unit G, OYO Business Park, Hindmans Way, How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................36 Dagenham, RM9 6LN - Tel: 020 8526 7779 Daniel King on rising star and man of the moment Alireza Firouzja LMPI (North America) Never Mind the Grandmasters...................................................................40 8155 Larrey Street, Montreal (Quebec), Carl Portman has been inspired by the late, great Emory Tate H1J 2L5, Canada - Tel: 514 355-5610 An Introduction to Prophylaxis II..............................................................42 Views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Editors. Contributions to Jose Vilela continues to demystify this important concept the magazine will be published at the Editors’ Wednesday 18th November 1964...........................................................46 discretion and may be shortened if space is limited. Geoff Chandler enjoyed a trip back in time with an old scorebook No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the prior express permission of the publishers. Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................47 All rights reserved. © 2020 Overseas News...................................................................................................48 Chess Magazine (ISSN 0964-6221) is published by: Ju Wenjun narrowly retained her women’s world championship title Chess & Bridge Ltd, 44 Baker St, London, W1U 7RT Tel: 020 7288 1305 Fax: 020 7486 7015 Home News..........................................................................................................50 Email: [email protected], Website: www.chess.co.uk Weekend success for Joseph McPhillips and Jonah Willow Solutions ...............................................................................................................53 FRONT COVER: Cover Design: Matt Read This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................54 Cover image: Harry Gielen John Pigott takes a thorough look at Vigorito’s Playing the Najdorf US & Canadian Readers – You can contact us via our Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58 American branch – Chess4Less based in West Palm Beach, FL. Call toll-free on 1-877 89CHESS (24377). John reflects on the success of the Gibraltar and Wijk chess festivals You can even order Subscriber Special Offers online via www.chess4less.com Photo credits: Alina L’Ami (pp. 9-10, 12 lower), Maria Emelianova (p.36), Brendan O’Gorman (pp.51-52), Harry Gielen (pp.4, 8, 11, 12 upper, 14), Eteri Kublashvili (pp. 48-49), Nikki Riga (p.21), Lennart Ootes (pp. 32-33), John Saunders (pp. 5, 17-19, 30-31, 58). Printed in the UK by The Magazine Printing Company using only paper from FSC/PEFC Errata - Our apologies for the gremlins creeping in and the printing error on the suppliers www.magprint.co.uk cover of our previous issue, which was, of course, the February 2020 CHESS. www.chess.co.uk 3 04-06 Editorial_Chess mag - 21_6_10 20/02/2020 18:11 Page 4 Chess Editorial By Executive Editor, IM Malcolm Pein @TelegraphChess Caruana’s Candidates Campaign Spassky’s 14...a6 was met by 15 dxc5 bxc5 17 0-0 and White was better. Afterwards it Don’t underestimate this achievement: was determined Black should play actively Fabiano Caruana’s result at Wijk aan Zee, the with 14...Ëb7 15 dxc5 bxc5 16 Îxc5 Îxc5 pre-eminent all-play-all on the calendar, was 17 Ëxc5 Ìa6, as in Timman-Geller, on a par with those achieved on the Dutch Hilversum 1973, where Black later activated coast by Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen. his bishop by sacrificing his d-pawn with Not only did the world number two match the ...d5-d4, a recurring theme in the QGD. highest-ever winning score of 10/13, he 15...Îd8?! achieved a margin of victory over Carlsen of After 15...Îa7! 16 Îac1 Îc7 17 Íxd7 Îxd7 two full points. 18 dxc5 Îxd1+ 19 Îxd1 bxc5 is only a tiny This remarkable performance featured a edge, or if 16 Íxd7 Îxd7 17 dxc5 bxc5 finishing spurt of 6½/7 after a 3½/6 start when Black’s good bishop compensates for the and was reminiscent of Caruana’s seven isolated pawns. Topalov-Anand, the decisive 12th game of the 2010 World Championship straight wins at the Sinquefield Cup back in So that if 14...b5? 15 Íxb5. match at Sofia was a classic example: 2014. It also propelled the American back to 14...b6 15 Íb5 within 20 points of Magnus Carlsen on the This is reminiscent of Fischer-Spassky, 6th rating list. Caruana at 2842 is just two points matchgame, Reykjavik 1972, where Fischer shy of his highest-ever rating, with Carlsen took the lead in the match: down to 2862 and Ding Liren adrift on 2805. Seven of the top 12 rated players are in the Candidates tournament (Caruana, Ding Liren, Grischuk, Nepomniachtchi, Radjabov, Giri and Wang Hao), which begins on March 15th. The eighth Candidate is Kirill Alekseenko, who scored an uninspiring 6½/10 at Gibraltar and dropped out of the 2700 club. He is ranked 39 on the live list as I write. Yochanan Afek covers Fabi’s fabulous exploits inside. I’d like to highlight one of the coming men, Daniil Dubov, who had a solid Anand continued 16...Ìf6! 17 dxc5 Ìxe4 ‘+1’ performance at Wijk, after playing some 18 Ëxe4 bxc5 when his bishop going to b7 sparkling and highly innovative chess in gave him good chances and he won the game 2019. Dubov clearly benefits from having to take the match. been involved in Carlsen’s training set-up and 16 Íc6 Îa7 17 dxc5! Ìxc5 18 Ëb4! is just outside the 2700 club on 2699. D.Dubov-Yu Yangyi Wijk aan Zee 2020 Slav Defence 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Ìf3 Ìf6 4 Ìc3 e6 5 Íg5 h6 6 Íxf6 Ëxf6 7 e3 Ìd7 8 Íe2 Íb4 Having played White in this position countless times, I have always found 8...g6 a tougher nut to crack. This is the standard choice and if necessary the queen goes back to d8 when Black is very solid. 9 0-0 0-0 10 Ëc2 Íxc3 11 Ëxc3 dxc4 12 Îfd1 c5 An incredibly annoying move: b6 is As so often in this QGD structure, Black’s impossible to defend without going into full principal task is to activate his light-squared retreat mode, after which Black is confined to bishop. 12...b5 13 Ìe5 Ìxe5 14 dxe5 Ëg6 the first two ranks. 15 Íf3 might appear unattractive, but 18...Ìd7 19 Ëd6 Îf8 20 Îd2 Ìc5 15...Íb7 16 Îd7 Îab8 17 Ëe3 Ëf5 18 Ëe7 21 Îad1 Ëxe5 becomes quite murky, so here White Daniil Dubov scored ‘+1’ for a share of Dubov even rejected 21 Ëb8, winning the might prefer 13 b3. fourth and a 2774 performance at Wijk. The exchange, as it allows a little counterplay with 13 Íxc4 a6 14 Ëa3 23-year-old is now up to 37th in the world. 21...Îb7 22 Íxb7 Íxb7 23 Ëe5 Ëg6. March 2020 4 04-06 Editorial_Chess mag - 21_6_10 20/02/2020 18:11 Page 5 21...Ëe7 22 b4 Ëxd6 23 Îxd6 Ìb7 41 Íc7 Îxb6 42 Íxb6 c4 43 Íd1 Íg6 Karpov who gave a simultaneous. Not only can 24 Î6d2 f6 25 h4 h5 26 Íe4 e5 27 Îc1 44 Íxg4 Íf5 45 Íf3 c3 46 Êg1 Êf7 you meet a legend, you can also play one at Îa8 28 Îc6 b5 29 Îb6 47 Íd4 c2 48 Íb2 d4 Gibraltar, as our contributor Tim Wall found out. There’s no stopping the avalanche. 49 Êf2 e5 50 Íd5+ Êf6 51 h4 Êg6 52 Êg3 Íd3 53 Íc1 e4 54 Íb2 Êf5 A.Beliavsky-T.Wall 55 Íg8 h6 56 Íc1 e3 57 Íb2 Íe4 Gibraltar 2020 58 Íc1 g5 59 h5 g4 60 Íh7+ Êe5 61 Íg8 e2 62 Êf2 d3 0-1 29...Êh8 Or if 29...Îb8 30 Îc2 Îd8 31 Îc7 Îd6 32 Íxb7 Îxb6 33 Íxc8. 30 Îc2 Îf7 31 Îxa6 1-0 Tim may well have thought he was Two other notable results were the winning, but the former Candidate found a performances of the young stars Jorden van A nice ‘two penny arcade’ finish occurs way out.
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    2014 Tromso Chess Olympiad Survey – Results The ACP would like to thank all 72 participants of the 2014 Tromso Chess Olympiad survey. We hope your evaluations and thoughts will help FIDE and the organizers of next Olympiads. We have received answers from representatives of 42 national chess federations: Andorra (1), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), Czech Republic (1), Denmark (4), England (6), Estonia (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Ghana (1), ICCD (1), Iceland (4), India (1), Iran (1), Israel (4), Italy (4), Kyrgyzstan (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (3), Luxembourg (1), Macedonia (1), Mexico (1), Monaco (1), Netherlands (3), Norway (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (1), Russia (1), Scotland (1), Serbia (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sweden (2), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (4), USA (5), Vietnam (1). Among the 72 responders: 41 were Players, 11 were Arbiters, 7 Captains, 6 FIDE Congress Participants, 6 Journalists, 1 Chief of Delegation, 1 Volunteer, 1 Photographer, 1 Member of the Technical Administration Panel, 1 Coach, and 1 Commentator. Remark: The numbers don’t sum up to 72 as some of the participants had more than one function. PART I – Questions related to the organization How would you rate the overall organization of the 2014 Chess Olympiad (1 = very poor, 5 = excellent) 40% 30% 20% 38% 29% 10% 17% 7% 10% 0% 1 2 3 4 5 Average = 3,18 How would you rate the pre-tournament communication with the organizers? (1 = very poor, 5 = excellent) 40% 30% 20% 29% 10%
  • PNWCC FIDE Open – Olympiad Gold

    PNWCC FIDE Open – Olympiad Gold

    https://www.pnwchesscenter.org [email protected] Pacific Northwest Chess Center 12020 113th Ave NE #C-200, Kirkland, WA 98034 PNWCC FIDE Open – Olympiad Gold Jan 18-21, 2019 Description A 3-section, USCF and FIDE rated 7-round Swiss tournament with time control of 40/90, SD 30 with 30-second increment from move one, featuring two Chess Olympiad Champion team players from two generations and countries. Featured Players GM Bu, Xiangzhi • World’s currently 27th ranked chess player with FIDE Elo 2726 (“Super GM”) • 2018 43rd Chess Olympia Champion (Team China, Batumi, Georgia) • 2017 Chess World Cup Round 4 (Eliminated World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen in Round 3. Watch video here) • 2015 World Team Chess Champion (Team China, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia) • 6th Youngest Chess Grand Master in human history (13 years, 10 months, 13 days) GM Tarjan, James • 2017 Beat former World Champion GM Vladimir Kramnik in Isle of Man Chess Tournament Round 3. Watch video here • Played for the Team USA at five straight Chess Olympiads from 1974-1982 • 1976 22nd Chess Olympiad Champion (Team USA, Haifa, Israel) • Competed in several US Championships during the 1970s and 1980s with the best results of clear second in 1978 GM Bu, Xiangzhi Bio – Bu was born in Qingdao, a famous seaside city of China in 1985 and started chess training since age 6, inspired by his compatriot GM Xie Jun’s Women’s World Champion victory over GM Maya Chiburdanidze in 1991. A few years later Bu easily won in the Chinese junior championship and went on to achieve success in the international arena: he won 3rd place in the U12 World Youth Championship in 1997 and 1st place in the U14 World Youth Championship in 1998.