Kavalek on Nakamura's victory

The veteran grandmaster annotates two games in the Caro-Kann Advance Variation from Wijk aan Zee: Nakamura's win with Black against Nepomniachtchi and Carlsen's win with White against Wang Hao.

Column is here!

Kavalek remembers Evans

Mark Taimanov-Larry Evans

USSR-USA match, New York 1955

Black to play

Taimanov has just sacrificed material with 19.Rxc7.  If Black plays the natural 19...Qxc7, White plays the powerful 20.d6.  What to do?

Kavalek annotates this beautiful win by Evans.

Kavalek on Ukraine's Olympiad victory

His last two columns feature games of Efimenko and Ivanchuk.  Good stuff!

Steinitz's Immortal Game

Steinitz - von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895

White to play and win

Admittedly, Hastings 1895 doesn't have much to do with Chicago.  But hey, very cool notes by Kavalek!

Kavalek annotates World Open

Good stuff.

Not your typical checkmate in three moves

A recent Huffington Post column by GM Lubomir Kavalek used one of my favorite chess problems to illustrate the concept of zugzwang.  (I like it so much that I've posted it on the blog once before!)  The author of this problem is the nineteenth-century French playwright Alfred de Musset.

 de Musset

White to play and checkmate in three moves

Lubomir Kavalek's new column

The famous GM and author was the longtime chess columnist for the Washington Post. He's now at The Huffington Post. 

His first column is a very nice overview of the U.S. Championship.  One hopes he won't be writing about the dangers of vaccination!