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Blog Post 6-4-2013

Games Outside the Spotlight

With the Candidates tournament having such an exciting finish (for those of you who missed it – Carlsen is Anand’s challenger for the World Championship Match) it’s easy to forget that other tournaments were being played at the same time! So for this blog post I’ve decided to write a ‘Games Column’ of sorts with three lightly annotated games from various open tournaments. You’ll notice I haven’t covered any Doeberl Cup games – that’s because I’ll be going through those next week! ;

Blog Post 18-03-2013
The Big Clamp

The World Champions Part Three

For this blog post I’ll go through two more games played between the world champions. Unfortunately Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov never played each other, so we’ll have to settle for one of Fischer’s wins against one of his predecessors, namely Tigran Petrosian who had an exceptionally solid style and whose trademark was the positional exchange sacrifice, which he introduced into the arena of chess tournaments. Meanwhile Fischer possessed an extremely aggressive style, backed up by thorough opening preparation and machine-like calculation.

Young Players at the Australian Open Part Four

For this final part I will go through the results of the other young players in the Australian Open on a round-by-round basis rather than by individual players. As the tournament featured a large number of young players, I will focus on upset results by juniors (under 18) with some games. Note that in referring to upset results by juniors I have not included Bobby Cheng’s results as I already went through his games in the first two parts.