Thursday, January 22, 2015
Three Times a Lady
In the B Group at the Tata Steel (Wijk aan Zee) tournament, the world's current youngest grandmaster, 14-year-old Samuel Sevian, performed a feat that has surely occurred very rarely in chess history. He sacrificed three queens on three consecutive moves! He thereby achieved an easily winning rook versus pawns ending, which his opponent promptly resigned. Very cool.
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He also sacrificed Valentina, which is a lady. So 4 times a lady?
This is cool. An ending like that is very special. Do you know of any parks that have the old, concrete, chess tables in the city?
Anonymous - the chess pavilion at North Avenue Beach. http://bit.ly/1KpCZuK http://bit.ly/1zd9t9N Obviously this is not the time of year to visit it, though.
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