Grandmaster James Plaskett
Complex games may demand intense scrutiny. Twenty-four years after this one was played in the penultimate round of the world’s most prestigious Open, I offer my final verdict. And that of Fritz9.
Plaskett v Miles
Lugano 1986
1 c4 e5 2 e3 d6 3 Nc3 g6 4 g3 Bg7 5 Bg2 Ne7 6 d4 0-0 7 [...]
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Test Your Benko Refutations with IM Chris Ward
first published in Kingpin 19 (Spring 1992)
Once upon a time there was an opening of great repute advocated by such English favourites as Hodgson, Hebden and Plaskett. Then along came a little-known Soviet player with the tactical flair of Adams, the optimism of Suba and the pure [...]
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Jonathan Rogers
There are many ways in which chess literature suffers from the fact that the game is not a recognised academic study. Take, for example, the imprecision of our terminology; we all use various chess words but seem to mean different things when doing so. The confusion continues in perpetuity because there is no recognised [...]
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GM James Howell
Becoming a GM does have its pluses but the major disadvantage I’ve found is the sudden disappearance of 95% of my motivation. The only thing that really gets me going nowadays is the prospect of stopping some unfortunate who’s going for a norm. This is not a trait on which I have a [...]
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