Archive for May 30th, 2009

Mihail Marin is an author who provides top-class contributions for
every issue of ChessBase Magazine. One of his specialties is the Modern
Benoni, for which he wrote three articles in CBMs 123 to 125. Recently he got the chance to put his theoretical knowledge to practice – in the Open in Sardinia, against Russian grandmaster Igor Naumkin. Commenting
on 10…Nbd7 Marin writes: “I had never played this before, but I had written
two articles about it. So preparing for the game had been
quite simple.” Here you can see Marin’s short notes (the game will be
annotated in detail in CBM 131):
Annotated game Naumkin-Marin.

Bulgarian chess trainer Valeri Lilov, rated 2411, has a weekly show on Playchess.com. On Mondays at 20:00h CEST (7 p.m. London, 2 p.m. New York) he presents practical chess problems and interesting themes based on games taken from recent super-tournaments. This time he will focus on the initiative, with live audio commentary. Take a look, it’s free!