Monday 19 October 2009

Check Mate (a Mini car in Cologne)




What a tiny lovely thing! I catched a glimpse of it in Cologne, while we were waiting for the tramway. a black-and-white Mini car, whose name is "Check Mate"
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Sunday 18 October 2009

Botvinnik stamp. Botvinnik - Capablanca, AVRO 1938


I saw this in Chessbase. A stamp from the Central African Republic which celebrates one of the greatest world champions: Mikhail Botvinnik. The most interesting thing is that it includes the diagram of the critical position in the game Botvinnik - Capablanca, in the AVRO tournament played in Brussels in 1938. Kasparov wrote that this game represents the transition from the era of talented players to the era of study and preparation.
I guess most of chess players have played the game through and know which the next White move is.


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