The Abysmal Depths of Chess

January 1989, Position G White to play Zso Polgar - McCarthy, New York Open 1988 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

January 1989, Position G White to play Contributions to the comments box  are welcome . Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

September 1988, Position A Black to play Ivanchuk - Norwood, European Junior Campionship 1987 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

September 1988, Position A Black to play Contributions to the comments box  are welcome . Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

April 1988, Position C White to play Short - Ljubojevic, Reykjavik 1987 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

April 1988, Position C White to play Contributions to the comments box  are welcome . Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

August 1988, Position D White to play Kuczynski - Schmidt, Gizycko 1985 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

August 1988, Position D White to play Contributions to the comments box  are welcome . Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

August 1988, Position A White to play Chiburdanidze - Watson, Brussels 1987 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

August 1988, Position A White to play Contributions to the comments box  are welcome . Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

April 1988, Position F White to play Uhlmann - Schmidt, Polanica Zdroj 1975 and Uhlmann - Schmidt, East Germany v Poland 1981 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

April 1988, Position F White to play Contributions to the comments box  are welcome.  Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

April 1988

April 1988, Position J White to play Rivas - Luce, Berga 1987 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

April 1988, Position J White to play Contributions to the comments box  are welcome . Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

December 1988, Position B White to play Szalanczy - Gavrikov, Hungary 1988 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move. Scroll down to see some commentary from me and the Masters’ feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It is my firm belief that intuition does not develop as random pattern recognition, but rather the recognition of patterns previously investigated and understood. That is why looking through unannotated games from a database or playing through the complete works of Averbakh will not seriously improve your chess. Jacob Aagaard:  Excelling at Positional Chess It’s worth listening to Aagaard when he’s got something to say about chess improvement. For my money he’s one of the better chess writers of our time. A time that has given us, let us not forget, several dozen books by the Mrs Brown

December 1988, Position B White to play Contributions are welcome in the comments box. Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.

June 1988, Position D White to play Romanishin - Psakhis, Yurmala 1987 Contributions are welcome in the comments box. I’ll reply with what the Masters have to say about their choice to anybody who suggests a move.

June 1988, Position D White to play Contributions are welcome in the comments box. Masters’ feedback will be published tomorrow.