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Senior Moments
Senior Moments by Tim Harding Senior chess tournaments are increasing in popularity and this year the FIDE World Senior team tournament was revived. Although it drew a quite small entry, interest in future years is likely to increase and in 2015 team and individual championships are scheduled for both World and Europe seniors. A big change this year, not universally popular, was that instead of the traditional 60+ age group events (50+ for women), FIDE introduced a two-tier structure. The "real" seniors are now 65+ (players born 1949 or earlier were eligible) while a 50+ "junior senior" category was introduced. The 2014 World Seniors Congress was held at the Mediterranean Village … [Read more...]
A String of Associations
A String of Associations by Mark Dvoretsky Looking at a recent issue of New In Chess magazine (No. 6, 2013), my attention was drawn to the final section of an article by grandmaster Jan Timman. Kunin – Edouard Helsingfors, 2013 Kunin is a grandmaster with roughly 2500 Elo-points. In this position he seems to be worried that Black has doubled rooks on the a-file, because he went in for 22.b5? An utterly unbelievable move. Black’s positional problem has been solved at a stroke: the black knight, with no prospects on b7, has been gifted a magnificent square in c5. Before that, Black didn’t have a single threat. Remarkably enough, the computer isn’t even overly critical here, … [Read more...]