While I found the book amusing (especially as the story is narrated by the tournament arbiter) I was also impressed that Soltis peppered the novel with actual games of chess. In his introduction he states that most of the games are real, and I commend him on his choice of a number of interesting clashes.
Here is the first round clash between GM Qi (CHN) and GM Boriescu (ROM).
Qi - Boriescu [E62]
Los Voraces, 2019
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.Nf3 d6 6.Nc3 c6 7.0-0 Qa5 8.h3 Qa6 9.b3 b5 10.cxb5 cxb5 11.a4 b4 12.Nb5 Qb6(D)
13.Ne5 dxe5 14.dxe5 Rd8 15.Be3 Rxd1 16.Rfxd1 Qa5 17.exf6 Bxf6 18.Rac1 Bd7 19.Bxa8 Bxb5 20.Rc8+ Kg7 21.axb5 Qxb5 22.Rdd8 1-0
If you are interested, this game appears to be based on the game Busch - Gosev 1990, which is identical up until move 18.
2 comments:
This is indeed a very entertaining book. It was serialised on chesscafe.com during 2001 and, for a while, available for free in PDF form through the Archives section, but I just looked quickly and I couldn't still find it there.
Avaiable from ACE.
See http://www.chessaustralia.com.au/index.cfm?p=detail&o=0786416378
Brian Jones
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