Giddins: The Most Exciting Chess Games Ever BILD ZU KLEIN At the beginning

At the beginning

So why do we commit such chess sins in the first place

They enable Black to gain a firm foothold in the centre at an early stage and White is not permitted the easy space advantage that occurs with many other defences to 1 d4

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Giddins: The Most Exciting Chess Games Ever BILD ZU KLEIN At the beginningThe Experts' Choice in New In Chess Magazine Twenty years ago, New In Chess magazine started its own Proust Questionnaire, entitled Just Checking. In this back page column, chess players and personalities named their favourites, preferences, moods, life mottos and whatnot. One of the questions has always been: What was the most exciting chess game you ever saw? Chess greats such as Anand, Shirov and Ivanchuk (and probably any other top player you can