January 18, 2024
Matthew Sadler
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There are many difficult things about learning a new chess opening, but unresolved contradictions are perhaps the most painful. Unresolved contradictions typically arise in a student’s mind when opening courses praise a strategy in one chapter and then show it leading nowhere in another!
January 13, 2024
Matthew Sadler
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In the last post, we looked at the most natural human responses to Dragon’s stunning 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Qd2!? In this post we look at the way the engines counter this idea… and it’s equally stunning!
January 12, 2024
Matthew Sadler
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I’ve been continuing my investigation of the Pirc together with Dragon 3.3. It’s slow progress because Dragon keeps on digging up exciting new ideas which I can’t resist analysing! In the next couple of posts, we stop in amazement to look at a virtually unknown idea in the Austrian Attack with some subtle and venomous points!
January 6, 2024
Matthew Sadler
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Some more general Pirc instruction: the difference between …c6 and ..a6 systems and a useful technique to develop better understanding of your openings.
January 1, 2024
Matthew Sadler
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An examination of an endgame arising from a sharp line of the Pirc. Grandmaster Matthew Sadler tries to hold the black side of the endgame against the Leela chess engine.