Speelman's Agony #73

by Jonathan Speelman
4/1/2018 – A Two Knights and a Pirc from a Belgian. Sam Azzoug has a pawn sac gone wrong providing the 'agony' and then makes up for it with a nice a central pin breakthrough bit of 'ecstasy'. Fancy Jon taking a look at your games? Send them in! If you appear in the Agony column, not only will you get free detailed commentary of your games by one of chess’s great authors and instructors, and former world no. 4 player, but you also win a free three-month ChessBase Premium Account!

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Sam AzzougThis week's pair of games are by Sam Azzoug a forty-five-year-old Belgian who wrote:

I have chosen these 2 games because I had tried to play two new openings. In the first game the Two Knights defence and the second Pirc defence.

When the game has finished, I always analyse with Fritz and with my brain and try to find some moves I could forget it in the game.

We start with the rather agonising Two Knights, in which he failed ever to get real compensation for the theoretical early pawn sacrifice.

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Jonathan Speelman, born in 1956, studied mathematics but became a professional chess player in 1977. He was a member of the English Olympic team from 1980–2006 and three times British Champion. He played twice in Candidates Tournaments, reaching the semi-final in 1989. He twice seconded a World Championship challenger: Nigel Short and then Viswanathan Anand against Garry Kasparov in London 1993 and New York 1995.

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