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.




3 comments:

Gopal said...

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...

Bill Brock said...

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 :-)

Gopal said...

Thank you, sir!