May 2003
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Welcome to the May Update! Hi everyone, I am back from my travels (I won't talk about the chess in Vegas but the poker went well!) and as promised I have prepared a double issue to catch up the month I have slipped behind (admittedly each one has slightly fewer games than normal). In the May issue I will deal with the Classical while in June I shall take a look at other variations. |
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Just for a change (!) we shall kick off with another Bareev - Radjabov Bayonet Attack. This time Bareev won but he didn't deserve to.
In the recent European Championship in Istanbul Lastin was successful a couple of times with the 10 Be3 (Korchnoi) variation.
            
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Lastin - Reindermann was an extremely wild affair where Black probably didn't play the most critical line.
In Arlandi - Gallagher I played awfully but 14 Rd1 is very unusual and not so easy to deal with.
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In Volkov - Nevednichy we see White attempting to improve on last month's Damljanovic-Radjabov game but he doesn't really get anywhere.
Shabalov - Perelshteyn also features a new move in a line I have examined recently but White was definitely in trouble in this game.
And in Huss - Gallagher I managed to survive a scare in the opening and eventually register a full point.
Joe Gallagher
Any queries or comments to the KID Forum, or to me directly at Joe_Gallagher@ChessPublishing.com would be most welcome.