Festive violence

€19.95 Nezhmetdinov and Rinck [Note that Jon Speelman also looks at the content of the article in video format, here embedded at the end of the article.] I couldn’t easily decide on what to do for the last column of this very difficult year and eventually fell back on some cheerful ultra-violence. It’s the sort of chess which is wonderful to watch from a distance and would be delightful to dish out but deeply unpleasant to be on the end of. And who better to follow than the wonderful Rashid Nezhmetdinov with his two most famous games? I’ve recently played through a few studies by Henri Rinck