My Chess Blog

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing that to have answers which might be wrong"  - Richard Feynman Carlsen is ok with anything, or so it looks like.....whether dealing with hundred pieces or one piece..... The point is, he has a unique way to converse with his pieces and make them obey his command. Fortunately for him, his opponents too obey his command on most occasions and hence he prevails more often than not. Chess is a very difficult game to understand.....even for the greatest masters. All that they succeed in doing is to cope up with this predicament and they manage to keep their nose up in the water.....as long as it is possible. Tal said, " I began to succeed in decisive games (all game are decisive), perhaps when I realised a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent . " There was a great poet in Tamil called Kannadasan ( கண்ணதாசன் ) who

"Consciousness is a multi-dimensional affair" - Arthur Koestler   A game of chess is a constant struggle between the apparent and the hidden. There is always something which falls under the visible range, as the game progresses..... move by move.... .....and there is always something hidden! And Chess owes a great deal to this hidden aspect..... for its existence.... There are two types of "mistakes" that happen in a Chess game: overestimation and underestimation not only about the position but of the possibilities too - both one's own and opponents. Rojahn, Ernst  -  Czerniak, Moshe; Olympiad, 1939 White is enjoying a considerable advantage due to unduly risky handling of opening by Black......who incidentally is also a very good player who even held the great Cuban in the same Olympiad! As Alekhine noted in his book "107 great chess battles", 12.c3! followed by Be4 would have consolidated the advantage for White. Rojahn