
I thought this week that I'd show my two games from last week's 4NCL and, as requested by the survey last year, make the column more didactic. I haven't used ChessBase's training annotation format before but there are a number of questions dotted through the two games.
The season started with a match between my team Wood Green and 3Cs who had Stephen Gordon on top board. [Gordon, pictured, recently annotated games from the Tata Steel Masters -Ed.] I believe we'd drawn all five of our previous games but this time he murdered me!
The second game is against Scottish Champion GM Colin McNab.
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