Archive for February 6th, 2010

I have annotated the game Mangion – Carrelli, KCC Championship 2010, where Club President Don Carrelli took down Dr. Ian Mangion in a wild line of the Sveshnikov Sicilian that is supposed to be practically winning for White (see diagram above) but which Carrelli managed to survive and emerge from victorious.  If he wins in the final round of play Thursday, Carrelli would be the first club president to also be club champion.

A very original sequence happened in this Sicilian encounter from the recently finished festival in Wijk aan Zee. The black knight is attacked, but onto which square it should go now is only one question (A).

The other interesting issue is: what was actually White’s last (and best!) move (B),

as a reaction in turn to which black move (C)?

What do you think, Watson?

The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a  larger version of the diagram.