The Millard chess club crushes Simiganfan's challenge!

   Today the preeminent Chess.com blogger Simaginfan published an excellent blog on the Moscow city championship of 1947. https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/the-moscow-championship-1947-simagin-bronstein-and-ravinsky. In the article, he included an unannotated game between Vladimir Simagin, the imaginative grandmaster with exceptional sartorial skills and Gregory Ravinsky, whom I know very little about. He challenged the readership to attempt their own annotation of the Simagin/Ravinsky smackdown and I decided to take the game score to the Millard chess club today where we spent sometime attempting to understand the game. I am presenting the game as we examined it. No engines were killed in the making of these annotations and I am not claiming amazing accuracy.

The reader of course can easily consult Stockfish to find all our errors. However I think the process of understanding a chess game without resorting to the Silicon beast is useful. It is also fun to try and understand a game with your friends. I urge everyone to try it.