Ding Liren’s match losing blunder is presented as an exercise: “The position is a draw, but Ding successfully ‘composed’ the loss! Guess how?” (35) Four other positions are presented as exercises.
The second article concerns the European Championship and has seven games or game fragments. I spent a bit of time marveling at the ending in Derakhshani,B.—Ivanišević,I. After 53…d2, this position was reached.
White to move
In the end, Black's five passed pawns were more than White's extra rook and bishop could cope with.
The next two articles concern openings: a reasonably thorough exploration of White’s options in the Budapest Gambit and one on the Makogonov variation of the King’s Indian Defense, again with suggestions for the White player looking for a comfortable game.
“Michael’s Musings” by Michael Prusikin looks at long king walks and will command my attention sometime in the next couple of days.
Ivan Martić offers a brief article about Roman Shogdzhiev, who turns ten years old this year, and at the time of writing has met the requirements for the FIDE Master title and has one IM norm. There are four games.
Ian Rogers looks back on Garry Kasparov’s international debut and his own performance in the same event. He includes his loss to Kasparov late in the event. I’ve only started the article. I usually read Rogers’ articles when each new issue arrives.
I have not yet read the article on correspondence chess, nor looked at the usual elements that are standard in Informant: best game of the previous volume, most important novelty of the prior issue, studies, combinations, endings, and 200 games.
The next two articles concern openings: a reasonably thorough exploration of White’s options in the Budapest Gambit and one on the Makogonov variation of the King’s Indian Defense, again with suggestions for the White player looking for a comfortable game.
“Michael’s Musings” by Michael Prusikin looks at long king walks and will command my attention sometime in the next couple of days.
Ivan Martić offers a brief article about Roman Shogdzhiev, who turns ten years old this year, and at the time of writing has met the requirements for the FIDE Master title and has one IM norm. There are four games.
Ian Rogers looks back on Garry Kasparov’s international debut and his own performance in the same event. He includes his loss to Kasparov late in the event. I’ve only started the article. I usually read Rogers’ articles when each new issue arrives.
I have not yet read the article on correspondence chess, nor looked at the usual elements that are standard in Informant: best game of the previous volume, most important novelty of the prior issue, studies, combinations, endings, and 200 games.
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