2017 Korchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge

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Richard Bates
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Re: 2017 Korchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge

Post by Richard Bates » Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:55 pm

Chris Rice wrote:
LawrenceCooper wrote:How difficult it can be to try and defend r v r&b with only seconds on the clock has just been shown in Nepomniachtchi-Kramnik.
Chess.com adding some drills to stop people losing this difficult ending.
Alan Merry won the ending twice at Southend, both incidentally against juniors (although not clear from the live boards whether the second was the result of chess blindness or the transmission packing up).