So the last couple weeks I’ve been a little bit too busy to update my Blog, and I couldn’t have picked a worse 2 weeks to be busy since there has been so much action!
Fischer died last week the day I was heading down to the Liberty Bell Open in Philadelphia (Report Coming Soon). Before […]

We had a couple of big upsets today. Radjabov beating Anand with the white pieces was probably the biggest one of the day. It seems to me that once Radjabov was able to build this pawn chain with d6 and e5, Anand had very little chance of saving the game.

Notice the pawn can not be […]

Going into the very last round, World #1 Vishy Anand and World #2 Vassily Ivanchuk were tied with for first place with 24.5/37. It came down to 1 dramatic game, with Anand taking the white pieces. Anand seemed to achieve a winning position quite easily in a Sicilian Kan with 5. Bd3, but in blitz […]