Yearbook 73.pdf

Yearbook 73

24 New In Css - Te Nethelands

pening Highlights

Alexey Shirov

Shirov has played the King's Indian so oten in his

career sitting behind the black pieces that he felt

comfotable enough being White in the Bayonet Atack

against Radjabov (KI4.16, page 198). On move 21 he

launched a novelty 'with a long histoy'. It was first

discovered somewhere in November 1997 during a

training session with Zigurds Lanka. Now the time had

come to use the preparation.

Alexander Galkin

The Caro-Kann is surely not the most popular opening

among youngsters but it has seved Alexander Galkin,

World Junior Champion from Yerevan 1999, quite well

throughout his junior years and beyond. The extensive

notes in a suvey on page 78 to four of his 2004 games

with 4 ... ld7 (CK 8. 7) allow you a look into the secrets

of his opening laboratoy.

Alexey Bezgodov

Only a few living chess players have been granted the

privilige of having a sequence of opening moves named

ater themselves. It takes litle imagination to see 1.e4

c5 2.a3 (SI 48.1) being called the Bezgodov Variation

any time soon now. Bezgodov wrote an entire mono

graph about this system, and believes it has a bright

future. On page 57, in his first Yearbook contribution,

he introduces himself and the line.

Juan Morgado

For decades now Juan Sebastian Morgado has been

one of the great personalities in the world of

correspondence chess. His first steps were made in the

early 1960's, but later on he not only played in two

world championship finals, but also in numerous

Memorial and Jubilee events of the highest calibre. A

recent postal game ignited his interest in the Bayonet

Attack (KI4.16) that he shares on page 195.