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Throwback Thursday: Kavalek dissects two queen sacrifices

The well-known grandmaster and author Lubomir Kavalek <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/lubomir-kavalek-1943-2021">passed away last year in January</a>. A prolific writer, he penned dozens of well-read chess columns, including one he shared on ChessBase over the years. Here we reproduce one from February 2017, in which Kavalek shows us a failed queen sacrifice by Jan Timman against him, and Caruana’s successful 19.Qxf6!! sac against Nakamura at the London Chess Classic.

The Grandmaster of Publishing

€19.95 When Wim Andriessen founded  Schaakbulletin in 1968 and shortly thereafter gave up his secure job at the college, many were quick to call him insane. Berry Withuis, a veteran of chess journalism, openly mocked him: If you want to throw away your money in the Netherlands, you either waste it on women or create a chess magazine. After all, the local chess community was way too small to allow for a second publication to survive beside  Schakend Nederland, the official magazine of the local chess association. And indeed,  Schaakbulletin never really made any profit. However, Andriessen s advertising in the magazine helped him to sell a considerable numbers of chess books, which he also published. He later advertised his newly established chess store and mail-order products, as well. In 1984,

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