Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year 2014
"Well written, funny and wistful" - Paul Linford; "He is indeed the Lib Dem blogfather" - Stephen Tall
"Jonathan Calder holds his end up well in the competitive world of the blogosphere" - New Statesman
"A prominent Liberal Democrat blogger" - BBC Radio 4 Today; "One of my favourite blogs" - Stumbling
and Mumbling; "Charming and younger than I expected" - Wartime Housewife
Saturday, August 06, 2016
Ten-year-old defeats grandmaster
In my day small boys were not encouraged to play closed openings. These days anything goes, with the result that a 10-year-old can beat a grandmaster.
The grandmaster was Jan Krejci from the Czech Republic. The 10-year-old was R. Praggnanandhaa.
A profile on the latter for the Indian Express gives the initial but not a first name.It does tell us he is known as 'Praggu'.
A future world champion? We shall see.
Anyway, you can see the game in the video above. The man explaining it, the German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, is one of the most amiable of online chess commentators.
You will often find him working for the Chess24 site, which carries free live coverage of all the top tournaments.
No comments:
Post a Comment