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 B...
