Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 13:44:30 11/10/03
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On November 10, 2003 at 15:59:36, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >I think that you know that Russian players, be they IMs or GMs, in the 2550 ELO >ballpark, are tactically the best in the world. The positions you quoted are >way too simple for a good Russian player. Shaposnikov a cheater? No way... at >least in my opinion. Ask any serious GM what chess school is supposed to be the >best of all, especially in tactics? > >The Knight to f5 is "easy" to see as it frees the black Bishop diagonal and >enables Black to eventually open up the g-file... The other example was not very >clear to me. What is so special about 1.f4? Why was it difficult to find? > >The whole thing sounds quite muddled to me, I must say. I would like to hear >more evidence. > >Djordje /agree. As a _grandmaster_, he's supposed to be able to find moves like that :) Now if I played Nf5 . . . anthony
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