Monday, January 2, 2012
The most exciting opening?
One can make a strong argument for the Botvinnik Variation of the Semi-Slav. The position after Black's 10th move was first reached by Grünfeld (!) in 1936, Botvinnik came up with the amazing idea of castling queenside in 1941, and in 2012, I have yet to meet a person who claims to understand what's going on in this crazy opening.
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Bill, could you post a link to the pgn file for this tournament? Sevan put one up on the uschess.org article but the link seems to be broken...
I emailed PGN to you: let's see what I can do for everyone else.
Please give me a day or two: I occasionally work for a living :-)
Thank you, sir!
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