The Chess Mind

My latest ChessVideos presentation is ready for viewing. It's a pawn ending I composed 22 years ago, and it makes for an instructive and surprising exercise. I hope you enjoy it, and look forward to your feedback.

It's not the best game of my life, but my ChessVideos show this week covers one of most picturesque games of my life, against my highest-rated tournament victim. This win, as those who have known me for some time probably know, was against GM and erstwhile Candidate Leonid Yudasin from the New York Masters in 2002. We both misplayed the opening somewhat, but at one point in the early middlegame I committed a felix culpa, sacrificing a piece for two wonderful central pawns. To say that this sac worked out would be an understatement, but I missed and Yudasin rejected a finesse that would have put my idea out of business. As things turned out, my central pawn mass turned into a mighty pawn phalanx - just how mighty you'll need to see for yourself! Pop some popcorn, sit back, click here and enjoy.

After a couple of weeks off from reviewing USCL's 2007 Games of the Year, my latest show on ChessVideos.tv takes a compressed look at the last three games to be eliminated. The show is free and available on-demand, right here.

On ChessVideos.tv, I've been presenting USCL Games of the Year, but not for the next couple of weeks; instead, we'll have a look at a couple of my own games. This week we'll look back to one of my games from the 8th North American FIDE Invitational, played last month in Chicago, IL. The game is my fourth round win over young Indian IM Arjun Vishnuvardhan, a Sveshnikov Sicilian where I was able to exploit my opponent's inaccuracies in the opening to win in thematic fashion.

Have a look - the shows are free and can be accessed on-demand.