98th Caplin Hastings International Chess Congress

The Guardian – http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/02/in-praise-of-hastings-chess-congress The Telegraph – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/11322043/Glenn-Flear-shows-no-fear-against-top-seed-Maxim-Rodshtein-at-Hastings-Chess-Congress.html … Now read on …

Possibly under the influence of their New Year’s Celebrations, the games were shorter today, but still hard-fought. On board 1 the game Zhao – Lagarde was highly complex. Black went badly wrong. At one stage he had a complex fantasy variation which Chris Ward explained, […]