Friday
Jan222016
This Week's World Chess Column: On The Second-Place Finisher
Friday, January 22, 2016 at 4:48PM
In the previous week's column, I noted Garry Kasparov's claim that Viswanathan Anand had perhaps the best tournament of his career when he finished second to Kasparov in Wijk aan Zee 1999. That claim is certainly arguable, but it was a great performance by Anand. So in this week's column I look at one of Anand's great games from that tournament, and then transition to a brief remembrance of the player perhaps most associated with second-place finishes: Paul Keres.
tagged AGON, Paul Keres, Viswanathan Anand
Reader Comments (1)
A really fascinating game. Thanks for sharing.
But I think the black position with all those pawn-islands was so weak that solutions should have been at hand.