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  • Monday, August 26, 2013

    Nimzovich Miniature

    It always amazes me how just the teeniest error can cause one’s game to unravel when playing against a Grandmaster. Of this game, which appears in 1000 Best Short Games of Chess, Chernev wrote, “…his sacrifice of the Queen looks like the act of a desperate man --- until the wily plot unfolds."

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