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Recently young grandmaster P. Iniyan visited our company and showed us a position from one of his games which should be won by White. But he needed to work very hard to do so. It was a remarkable rook ending from which there was a lot to learn. We challenged our readers to find a comprehensive solution, and received some excellent analyses. This we present you today, with Iniyan's own analysis. Don't miss the wonderfully instructive video at the end.
High-stakes, classical games can be extremely enthralling as top grandmasters get enough time to discuss positions that are often cut short in events with quicker time controls. In round 8 of the Chennai Olympiad, Gabriel Sargissian scored a win that gave his team a crucial victory over India’s top team. Sargissian converted a slightly superior endgame against Pentala Harikrishna, who valiantly defended until move 102. Wolfram Schön sent copious annotations of the epic endgame struggle. | Photo: FIDE / Stev Bonhage
Robocop. This was what GM Yermolinksy dubbed IM Conor Murphy as he followed his superlative result. While the 2022 Olympiad was dominated by the performance of the youthful and brilliant Gukesh, and other stars on the rise, it is also much more than a collection of super grandmasters, so let us sing the praises of the unlikely heroes who rose to the occasion.
Over 650 games were played daily at the record-breaking Chess Olympiad in Chennai. GM Karsten Müller attentively followed the games, looking for instructive endings. Naturally, all sorts of setups and typical patterns showed up with so many encounters running concurrently. Go over our in-house expert’s analyses, and you are sure to find something to learn or, at the very least, something to enjoy! | Pictured: Praggnanandhaa beats Javokhir Sindarov after converting a tough technical endgame. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
This week, the editors recall Wolfram Schütte’s essay on the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, which was published in Artforum in March 1986. “The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Method: A Retrospective” is on view at the Bundestkunsthalle in Bonn, Germany, through March 6, 2022.“Among the many gifted directors in the postwar German cinema, he was the lone genius,” writes Wolfram Schütte in his essay-cum-eulogy about the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of thirty-seven. Love, violence, trauma, guilt, shame, mortality: For Fassbinder, these were the hum...