It will be nice to follow your efforts on the Yusupov challenge.
One idea to increase the numbers - split up GB or is that too nationalist ? Extra views from Wales anyway !

TopNotch wrote on 06/30/20 at 19:38:33:



Sicilian Attacks by Yakovich

@JonathanB -- This is great stuff.  Really enjoying it.  Thanks for posting.

VGA wrote on 06/06/20 at 21:41:32:


Good idea. Thanks for the tip.


I'm now up to 33 countries. If you're not one of these new ones let me know and I'll add you in.


Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA

Def Magnus. Probably eating a toasted sardine sandwich whilst he reads your blog.

Lauri Torni wrote on 06/05/20 at 07:16:16:


Hello!

I had a feeling that chesspub had an international readership, but I had no idea to what extent. I've gone from 21 countries to 29 in the last 24 hours or so since I started the thread:-

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA



brabo wrote on 06/05/20 at 05:15:26:

I've got a few page views from someone in Norway. I'm just assuming it's Magnus. I mean it's got to be, right?



Dink Heckler wrote on 06/05/20 at 08:53:13:


Yes, this is is what I like most about Beat the Masters. It's a very different kind of experience to playing through annotated games. However good the analysis you're still only getting one person's perspective.



kylemeister wrote on 06/04/20 at 21:20:47:


Blimey. I'd forgotten that. I haven't got to the articles where he joins in.  I'm not sure matching his choices too frequently would altogether be a good thing, mind.



an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 06/05/20 at 18:01:03:


Hi OCP.
I think you used to comment on the Streatham & Brixton chess blog that I used to write for some time ago. That was a very different kind of blog to what I'm doing now, though.



TBH with The Abysmal Depths of Chess, I'm really primarily doing it to help keep my motivation up going to carry on ploughing through the series.

I hope some people like the positions too that will be a definite bonus.  I'm also hoping to get a regular group of people discussing the positions in the comments to each post but I think that's going to take a while to build up if it ever happens.

I also think that Beat the Masters is a series that deserves to be remembered for all sorts of reasons. So just getting some snippets of it out there and accessible is good enough for me.

I loved that series! It was fascinating and hugely instructive to see how different players approached the same position. Thanks for doing this.