![]() ![]() ![]() This weekend features the first online Fide World Corporate Championship, an event which has attracted a huge entry of 284 teams, many of them famous names, from 78 countries. Whether it takes off in a competitive market remains to be seen, but few if any rival chess instructional materials can boast that they helped their author defeat the world champion. It incorporates advanced learning techniques, with detailed videos an optional extra. Part 2, analysing the Sicilian, French and Caro-Kann defences, will appear later this year. It doesn’t come cheap, with a basic price of £30 for Part 1, covering 1 e4 e5 plus some half-open defences. So’s course, published by Chessable, is too advanced for novices, requires hard work from its readers, and is aimed at strong amateurs, experts and ambitious talents, who play at a level where detailed preparation is most effective. Only that evening was his chief aide, GM Peter Heine Nielsen, put to work. The No 1 failed to prepare for So’s repertoire before the final, and was lucky to escape with 1-1 scoreline in his two black games, and 2-2 overall. Carlsen could have tied the match in the second set, but failed to visualise a simple winning tactic shown in this week’s puzzle.Ĭarlsen’s initial approach was surprisingly casual, despite an obvious warning in their all-play-all game in which So began 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 Bb5+, then used his repertoire until move 18 before Carlsen varied. In game two of the first set, So obtained a winning position but forgot his own analysis, exchanged queens at the wrong moment and lost. ![]() The encounter was not straightforward for either player. ![]()
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