November 2001 - What's New
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Hi everyone! First up I must say that I'm very sorry about this being late. I have been really busy and there has been the added work regarding the brand new, soon-to-appear, ChessPublishing site. Once it's all up and running though I'm sure that it will be great for you guys. Thanks for all of your mail that I will postpone answering until December's update. Keep your comments/questions coming though as I do appreciate them. |
I have put aside some interesting games for next month too (which I promise will be earlier) but for now there is:
3 games from the World junior championships in Spain including the g3 system of Gagunashvili-Tan, NOV01/03, and Vachier_Legraeve-Li Wu, NOV01/02, which started off that way but effectively transposed into a 9 0-0-0 Bd7. Karyakin-Wu, NOV01/01, was a 9 Bc4 Yugoslav Attack that followed one of last months encounters for a fair way and Goncharov-Kabanov, NOV01/06, dabbled in 9 g4.
Ponater-Shabalov, NOV01/04, is an instructive Classical variation but finally of extreme interest is the game Moreno Carnero-Del Rio Angelis, NOV01/05. Could we be on the verge of a new era in Dragon play? Black wins in competent style in a manner so frequently written off.
Bye for now
Chris
Chris Ward@ChessPublishing.com
New Games
Yugoslav 9 Bc4
NOV01/01 The unusual h-file stopper: A new way to halt White's traditional Yugoslav Attack h-file aspirations offers itself but alas is not taken!
Yugoslav 9 0-0-0
NOV01/02 Changing variations: White may have planned a quiet 6 g3 line but a crafty Black reply channeled the game into something rather different. Alas the last laugh was with White.
NOV01/05 The Radical Development?: Has Black found a new way to handle the Yugoslav Attack? White seems to lose without making any obvious mistakes.
Yugoslav 9 g4
NOV01/06 The absent defenders: White contemplates positional matters but kind of forgets that checkmate ends the game!
Classical Dragon
NOV01/04 Blocking pawns: All 4 rook's pawns are advanced two squares as we are left to investigate the consequences of the weaknesses created. In this Classical variation it is Black who is relatively better off.
6 g3 Dragon
NOV01/03 Breaking the connection: A bolt out of the blue stuns Black who in all fairness has plenty of opportunities to recover.