General

In the recent “Chess960” tournament that just concluded in the world’s chess capital, thethirteenth world chess champion Garry Kasparov criticized a move by the winner of thetournament in that it was something he would “never have even considered.” And, indeed,throughout our royal game’s history, there have been complaints by even the very best ofchess dying

There’s a mini-tradition in chess that the loser of a world championship match tends torebound with strong tournament results immediately after. That was the case for Tal at Bled1961, for Petrosian and Spassky in the Soviet championships, respectively, of 1969 and 1973.And such was the case for Schlechter at Hamburg 1910. He had played at