, June 11 (IANS) India s Viswanathan Anand showed he still had a lot of fight in him despite cutting back on his schedule as he finished third in the Norway Chess 2022, one of the strongest classical chess event in the last couple of years.In .
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Our first article, A mad rook rampage, started with a recent game between Jorden van Foreest and Taimour Radjabov, where the outplayed Dutch GM had saved himself with a dolle toren , a mad rook. The second article, Mario Matous s Mad Queen, showed a similar theme for a defending queen. Finally we had an article entitled Mad bishops and knights. In that article the question arose: can pawns become similarly suicidal?
To this generally asked question Frits Fritschy wrote: I haven t found any crazy pawn studies, but if they exist, they probably are versions of the excelsior theme (pawn goes from the second row to the eighth row). After an hour or so, I came to the following position, that is far too crude to call it a study, but it shows one idea.