CHESS

LAST weekend 64 players took part in the Limerick Open. In the top section FM Conor O’Donnell, FM Colm Daly and IM Pierluigi Piscopo shared victory with five points out of six each. The next major tournament in Ireland is the Kilkenny Open (November 1618). For more information on this and other competitions, visit www.icu.ie

Siegbert Tarrasch claimed that if one piece stood badly, the whole game was in jeopardy. I wonder what the famous German Grandmaster would have to say about the following game played a few days ago in the Chigorin Memorial in St Petersburg?