Ep. 8 The Boleslavsky Defense

11/04/2025 14 min Episodio 8

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Episode Synopsis

Gil randomly comes across a chess tournament in the wild. He talks about a popular defense for the Queen's Gambit and the first ever candidates tournament.

2006 tournament:
https://lichess.org/study/jbHHLzax/PrXO8DhP

1950 candidates tournament games:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=81350