Thursday, March 17, 2016

Remembering FM Bernd Feustel

http://www.edition-marco-shop.de/WebRoot/Store14/Shops/64079634/5411/DE8D/C530/3292/F559/C0A8/2AB8/6B42/Feustel_Eroeffnungen_-_abseits_aller_Theorie.JPGA few years ago, I came across a very interesting book in german language "Eroeffnungen abseits aller theorie" (english translation of the title: "Openings - beyond all theory") written by FM Bernd Feustel. 
The book contains many Modern Defence & Hippo annotated games mostly. Feustel was a strong player who had a peak elo rating of 2375 in the year 1981. In the above mentioned link, we learnt that Bernd Feustel passed away in 2012. His games will continue to inspire chess players around the world.
In this perspective we offer two games from his book:


Wednesday, March 16, 2016

A BIG Thank You

We wrote it a few years ago, we want to write it again: a BIG THANK YOU to IM Gerard Welling for being such a great source of chess inspiration for this blog.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Super GM Richard Rapport plays the Macho Grob!

If people think that IM Basman is the only titled player in the world who can play the Macho Grob in a  tournament game...it is wrong..