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If anyone told me I would be unhappy with a draw against a player rated 150 points above me before the game, I would have disagreed :)
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Two tournament games, two easy wins, two difficult choices. In the first game I was pondering whether to trade rooks and not and made the wrong decision. In the second game I was choosing between two continuations and also picked the wrong one... ... | Read More
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The first game was rather simple, since I did not blunder once for a change (allegro time control is 30 minutes / player):
The next game was uneventful and roughly equal for about 20 minutes, and then I decided to pep things up a bit (fast forwa... | Read More
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I really didn't deserve that draw.
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This position is taken from Reshevsky - Botvinnik match in 1948 World Championship. Botvinnik uses the weakness of c4 to force White into the defensive and then mount an attack on the kingside.
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The 5th move for white has so many variations, that the game editor got too laggy for me to include the rest of the main line, so it will be done in a separate post!
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The Four Knight's opening has so many variations, that it is necessary to divide it into 3 different posts. This post shows the variations for the first 4 moves, there will also be a post for 4...Bb4( main line) and 4... Nd4 (Rubinstein variation).
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