Jonathan Bryant wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 5:19 pm
I started this thread because I saw the position in a Beat the Masters article. 11/13 IMs and GMs wanted to play 1 exf6. The only two dissenters - Paul Littlewood and David Norwood (then still an IM) - both went for 1 Qa3.
I’ve begun blog dedicated to Beat the Masters called
The Abysmal Depths of Chess.
I’ve published three positions so far. The one from this thread can be found here:
https://theabysmaldepthsofchess.blogspo ... 9569343179
If you don’t remember Beat the Masters it’s a pretty simple idea:
each month Chess would publish 9 positions. You chose what your move was in each one and then in the follow-up article you compared with the Masters’ choices (it was people like Flear, Plaskett, Arkell, Davies, Conquest, Kosten). The more you matched the more points you scored.
I’m publishing articles twice a week, each one looking at a different position.