[Note that Jon Speelman also looks at the content of the article in video format, here embedded at the end of the article.]
The recent European Championship in Romania, won by Matthias Bluebaum for a second time, was a massive affair with over a hundred grandmasters in a field of nearly four hundred. Over the course of the eleven rounds they contested something over two thousand games and I watched a number of these, mostly in fairly desultory fashion but taking more notice when the engine metaphorically beeped, suddenly changing value dramatically.
Today I'm going to look at two of these games, which near their conclusion throw up some very interesting analysis. I've put some light notes in the openings (neither of which is in my repertoire) and then concentrated on melees which arose at the end. I'm taking them in chronological order.
Aydin Suleymanli
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