Monday, December 26, 2011

Today's Round 1 action: 27th North American Masters

Black against Grandmaster Mesgen Amanov is the second-toughest pairing possible in Illinois!  FIDE Master Gauri Shankar almost made it to a tenable endgame.  But not quite....

Round 2 is wrapping up right now; Round 3 begins at 1 p.m. tomorrow.


2 comments:

Frederick Rhine said...

Correct is 4...d5! 5.a3 Be7! with a QGD where White's QN is misplaced.

Bill Brock said...

But isn't 5.a3 too accommodating?