November 17, 2016
Matthew Sadler
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We’ll warm up for this second article on Yates’ attacks with a beautiful combination, though you might argue against the rest of the game meriting an entry in a Best Games Collection! Yates,F.D. – Colle,Edgar Hastings 1925/6 1.e4 Nf6 Yates had a poor score with White against Colle mainly because he struggled…
November 10, 2016
Matthew Sadler
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I would like to start this series of articles by examining attacks by Yates taken from his Best Games collection. Though none of them is perfect, they are a good illustration of Yates’ attacking flair. The first game was played against Isidor Gunsberg at the 1914 British Championship at Chester and featured an attack…
November 4, 2016
Matthew Sadler
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One of the rewarding things about analysing the games of the old masters is that there is always plenty new to discover – not only in the games themselves but also in the annotations. That’s doubly true with Alekhine, strangely enough due to the excellence of Alekhine’s own annotations! Subsequent annotators have seemed intimidated by…
October 13, 2016
Matthew Sadler
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It never ceases to amaze me how many complicated games Alekhine played in his career. While browsing through collections of his games, I’m constantly coming across positions where my first instinct is “That can’t possibly work… can it?” In this post we take a look at a couple of Alekhine tactical tidbits that I analysed…
September 22, 2016
Matthew Sadler
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The most intriguing part of a game is the turning point: exactly which moves shifted the objective balance of the game and put one of the players on the back foot? With complex games, I start analysing close to the end of the game from a position in which I can demonstrate a clear advantage…