17-04-2018, 02:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-04-2018, 02:54 PM by Craig Pritchett.)
Alan Scrimgour's incisive King's Bishop's Gambit romp in the true swashbuckling 19th century (chess) romantic style is indeed worth viewing!
Shame that the event site's annotator hadn't time to check the correct spelling of Adolf Anderssen's surname as the great man lived virtually all of his life in then Prussian Silesian Breslau, now Polish Wroclaw, near neighbour to Walbrzych (Silesian Waldenburg), second city of the region, that he no doubt must have known well. Sorry! But the iconic Anderssen features fondly in my book 'Great Chess Romantics', so there's the excuse for my pedantry!
The 65+ team are all playing above rating strength and very interesting chess to boot. Phil Giulian v IM Bent Sorensen and FM Bengt Hammar v Alastair White were also both blisteringly decisive wins for Scotland.
Today all the games from the event, including Russia v Scotland in the 65+ event, are live at the event website. Alastair White meets GM N. Pushkov, whom he nearly beat last time they played. Ian Marks on board 4 actually defeated Pushkov last time they played.
Go Scotland! Both teams!!
Shame that the event site's annotator hadn't time to check the correct spelling of Adolf Anderssen's surname as the great man lived virtually all of his life in then Prussian Silesian Breslau, now Polish Wroclaw, near neighbour to Walbrzych (Silesian Waldenburg), second city of the region, that he no doubt must have known well. Sorry! But the iconic Anderssen features fondly in my book 'Great Chess Romantics', so there's the excuse for my pedantry!
The 65+ team are all playing above rating strength and very interesting chess to boot. Phil Giulian v IM Bent Sorensen and FM Bengt Hammar v Alastair White were also both blisteringly decisive wins for Scotland.
Today all the games from the event, including Russia v Scotland in the 65+ event, are live at the event website. Alastair White meets GM N. Pushkov, whom he nearly beat last time they played. Ian Marks on board 4 actually defeated Pushkov last time they played.
Go Scotland! Both teams!!