In this blog post we dive a little deeper into the main lines after 17…Be3+ 18.Kb1 Nxe5, focusing on lines that a human player (like me!) might think of while playing through the game! 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 …

In this blog post, having settled the end position, we start a little further back within the game and work our way forwards, trying to understand the course of the middlegame. We’ll get as far as one branch from move 17 and then we’ll finish off the rest in a subsequent post. Let’s go! 1. …

We round off our examination of the amazing tactics from the game Stockfish-Torch with White’s second alternative on the 27th move. 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 8. Ne2 Be7 9. c3 a5 10. dxc5 a4 11. Qc2 O-O 12. …

In this second blog about the wonderful Stockfish-Torch game, we take a look at an amazing alternative on move 26! 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 8. Ne2 Be7 9. c3 a5 10. dxc5 a4 11. Qc2 O-O 12. O-O-O …

As I’m sure you all know, I’m constantly running engine matches on my cloud machines on all manner of chess topics. Occasionally, I come across a game of which I understand so little that it shocks me! This was the case with this Stockfish-Torch 15”+5’ game played about a week ago. 1. e4 e6 2. …