Saturday, July 23, 2022

GAME OF THE WEEK by Alan Lasser

  The fiftieth anniversary of the last time an American won the World Chess Championship is a good reason to put some Fischer stuff in this letter.  The creation of Fischer-Random may carry the board and pieces well into the future, and his defense against the King's Gambit is still used by grandmasters. This game was recently played in some politically incorrect country, which gives me the chance to nominate Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Prize in Economics.  That’s right, Economics, because Putin has provided the answer to the most famous question in that field.  Yes, it is better to be a renter.
 
GM Boris Savchenko(2547)-GM Vladislav Artemiev(2697)
2022 Moscow Open
7/19/22
1.e4 e5 
½-½

 

Alan Lasser