Teaser

Game five of the World Championship match between Anand and Gelfand was again a draw. I will post my translation of GM Shipov’s analysis here shortly, probably within two...

Gelfand – Anand Game 4: Towers of Babylon

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Here is Grandmaster Sergey Shipov’s analysis of the fourth game of the World Championship match, between Boris Gelfand and Viswanathan Anand. The original Russian text can be found, as always, at www.crestbook.com. (This...

Translation Coming Soon

Just a quick news flash: The fourth game Gelfand-Anand was drawn. I will post my translation of GM Sergey Shipov’s analysis here within an hour. Stay tuned!  ...

Website Updated!

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last month updating my main website, http://danamackenzie.com, so that it will be shiny and new and perfect when my book comes out. I am now publicly announcing that the re-design is complete! If you’ve never been there,...

More recap of an exciting weekend

I know my faithful readers want to hear more about my team’s victory at the US Amateur Team West this weekend. And of course you want games! I don’t have any of my teammates’ games, but I can show you my game in the last round that gave us the...

Pavlovic-Splane (with a side of Benko)

As I promised in my last post, here is some analysis of the last-round game between International Master Milos Pavlovic and National Master Mike Splane at the New Year Open. It’s a game that does credit to both players. I am going to skip over the first 28 moves...