A reader asked: “Hi Tim, I greatly enjoyed reading your book on Budapest and am happy to read more here on your blog! I like your notion to keep on the DSB as black against the toughest line (imho) e3 in the Rubinstein … but there is a game I am wondering how you would [...]

At the recent Metro FIDE International, I had a conversation with a 1900 player that went about like this. He asked me what he should play against his next opponent, a d4 player, and I said, “Try the Budapest Gambit!” 1900: But it’s bad, right? Me: I wrote a book about it! 1900: But it’s [...]

Just imagine Mike Ovitz trying to threaten Joe Eszterhas, and you’ll get a sense of my next two games: the White players hadn’t done their homework, and Hungarian fighting spirit took them down. This game was played in a late round of the great Metro International Tournament series, and as usual I was going for [...]

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