Post-mortem Svidler-Leko
Tonight the last footage we received from Morelia. It's the post-mortem of the game Svidler-Leko from round 5. A Marshall Gambit that ended in a quick draw, and it seemed a bit of a boring game. But last Saturday I spoke to chess journalist GM Ian Rogers, who was in Moralia for more than a week, and he assured me that the game was much deeper than you would expect. The fact that both players had nothing better than to repeat the moves, had some quite deep stuff behind it. And this is exactly what you can see in the video.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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