⚪️#287 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Botvinnik,Mikhail
🔸Petrosian,Tigran
🔸World Championship

📕 11.Kf1!
Botvinnik demonstrated a high degree of chess understanding.
The king belongs on g2. Leaving the rook on h1 makes sense both aggressively and as a safety precaution.

⚪️#289 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Graf,Alexander (2605)
🔸Dizdarevic,Emir (2502)
🔸Skopje op 2002

📕 17.d5!
White has to act quickly in order to exploit the exposed position of the black king. It's nice that white's king-side expansion forced black's forces into bad positions which then enables a central breakthrough. Textbook stuff!

⚫️#290 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Horak,Michal (2310)
🔸Kiselev,Sergey (2470)
🔸Pardubice op 1993

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 290

A: f6 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

B: g5 – 3
👍👍 21%

C: b5 – 1
👍 7%

👥 14 people voted so far.

In 1965, as a student of Erasmus High (the same HS that Fischer attended), Walter Browne (1949-2015) won the Senior HS Ch of the NY Interscholastic League. In 1966, he won the US Jr Ch. He won the National Open 11 times and the American Open 8 times. He won the US Ch 6 times.

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The start of the 1974 Candidates semifinal match between Anatoly Karpov and Boris Spassky, Leningrad, April 1974.

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Simen Agdestein, Judit Polgar and Nigel Short in Lewis - 1995

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🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2480)
⚫️Amonatov,Farrukh (2624)
🔸0-1

🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Korneev,Oleg (2554)
⚫️Khodashenas,Mersad (2397)
🔸0-1

💢 John L. Watson
💢 Chess International Master

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💢 John L. Watson
💢 Chess International Master And Author


♦️ John Leonard Watson is a chess International Master and author.
♦️ Watson was born in (1951) Milwaukee and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He was educated at Brownell-Talbot, Harvard, and the University of California, San Diego, where he took his degree in engineering. He has won many chess tournaments including the first US National High School Chess Championship and the American Open.
Watson is best known as a chess theorist and author, and has written more than thirty books on many aspects of chess. His 1999 book Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy won the British Chess Federation's Book of the year award as well as the United States Chess Federation Book of the Year. The successor volume Chess Strategy in Action was the Chesscafe Book of the Year. These two books explore and theorize how radically chess has changed since the early 20th century, and how old and supposedly 'time-tested' rules for the conduct of play have been replaced by broader and revolutionary practice over-the-board. These books have been translated into several languages. In a lighter vein, Watson wrote the Chessman comic book series, illustrated by Chris Hendrickson and Svein Myreng. Chessman Comics are now out-of-print collectors' items. Watson has a regular book review column at The Week in Chess, the publication of the London Chess Centre (available online). He has a weekly Internet radio show 'Chess Talk with John Watson' on Chess.FM, the radio arm of the Internet Chess Club (ICC).

♦️ Watson is also much in demand as a chess coach; his students have included Tal Shaked, the 1997 World Junior Champion, Senior Master Patrick Hummel, Abby Marshall, and also other US scholastic champions.

♦️ A memorable game by John Watson👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ John L Watson vs Alexey Dreev
▪️ Moscow (Russia) (1985), It, rd 34
▪️ Vienna Game: Mieses Variation (C26)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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🔸 John L Watson - Alexey Dreev, Moscow 1985
🔸 PGN format

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