Archive for July 16th, 2009

In the past weeks three important tournaments took place in Kalithea, Greece. First, the youth individual championships, for all ages up to sixteen; secondly, the final four matches of the Greek Cup; and finally, there was the Greek National Team Championship. All were hotly contested, with no love lost, but with serenades on a guitar soon following. GM Dejan Bojkov reports.

Just a couple of years ago the shocking pawn sacrifice 5.g4 entered the theory
of the dignified Philidor Defence. If you check with the ChessBase online database, you will find 208 games and an amazing
score of 64% for White. The creator of this ultra-sharp new line, Alexei Shirov, recently recorded a
Fritz Trainer DVD on both the new and the classical Philidor.
Buy it
now or read more.

Born in 1954, GM Adrian Bogdanovich Mikhalchishin (or Mihalcisin or Mihalčišin)
established himself as a strong grandmaster who was the second to World Champion
Anatoly Karpov. He went on to become an internationally renowned trainer and
a prolific author of chess books. Adrian discusses his life and the strategy
of chess training in this interview with Özgür Akman.