"...the really great make you feel that you too can become great." -Mark Twain
The week's pair of games come from Tanmay Srinath an Indian teenager who featured in the column just under a year ago.
Now seventeen, Tanmay is a Taekwondo Black Belt, who has represented India at the highest level with distinction. becoming an international gold medalist. He recently came twelfth in science in national exams and will start undergraduate studies in August.
Working with BS Shivananda — a famous coach who has many nationally successful students under his guidance — Tanmay has been making progress in chess and is fiercely self-critical — an excellent attribute for a chess player. His favourite player remains Misha Tal and he prefers attacking chess but we start with the Agony, a difficult positional game in which he was pressing for the most part but made a bad misjudgement at the end.
Tanmay has provided lots of notes and as usual, I've added to these as 'JS'.
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