Archive for September 17th, 2009

The
position in the diagram is full of traps. You will find four games in the CD-Rom
“1000
Opening Traps”. In three cases White falls into the trap (with 8.f3?, 8.Qd2?
and 8.Nb3?), and the only way for Black to go wrong is, after 8.0-0, to play
8…Qb4?! 9.Bb3 Nxe4?. Even grandmasters have been victims of this trick, but
when a 2700 grandmaster falls into a known opening trap it is generally speaking
a first.

Nakamura-Ljubojevic with
annotations
4 Opening traps in B35

A scheduled training session with Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen was used as an occasion to meet the Norwegian press. The two sat down for a friendly game against Education Minister Solhjell, and all three answered questions for a Channel 2 journalist. The government is set to back their brightest chess star, said the Minister, and his country’s bid to host a Chess Olympiad. Video report.