Beating the Berlin Defence! - Shirov "VENDOR JLP Lost Art Woodworking" delivering extraordinary performance and is

delivering extraordinary performance and is fun to play

and it is a joy to imagine and create them

Paulsen covers the fascinating Botvinnik Variation

Are you happy to roll the dice and take some risks

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Beating the Berlin Defence! - Shirov "VENDOR JLP Lost Art Woodworking" delivering extraordinary performance and isEver since the Kasparov Kramnik WCh match (London 2000) players with the white pieces have been breaking their teeth biting on the Berlin Wall in the Ruy Lopez. There may also have been some successes for White of course, but time and again Black has convincingly demonstrated how to equalize or even how to construct an impregnable fortress. The situation from White's point of view has become precarious ducking it is equivalent to capitulation, because