Blog Post 26-02-2013
The World Champions Part Two
Greetings! Let’s continue our examination of the games of the World Champions by looking at a game between Euwe and Smyslov from the 1946 Staunton Memorial. Smyslov had a very good score against Euwe, who incidentally is the only amateur chess player to become World Champion, and also the only World Champion to become the President of FIDE.
Young Players at the Australian Open Part Four
For this final part I will go through the results of the other young players in the Australian Open on a round-by-round basis rather than by individual players. As the tournament featured a large number of young players, I will focus on upset results by juniors (under 18) with some games. Note that in referring to upset results by juniors I have not included Bobby Cheng’s results as I already went through his games in the first two parts.
Blog Post 4-2-12
Young Players at the Australian Open Part Three
Having completed a detailed examination of Bobby Cheng’s Australian Open result, we should look at the performances of the other young Australian players. I’m going to avoid covering my own performance to try and keep my post as objective as possible, and instead report on the performances of some players of a similar age to me, namely IM Moulthun Ly, FM Junta Ikeda and IM Andrew Brown.
