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How a Young Chess Phenom Spends His Sundays

The problem with contemporary chess, said Oliver Boydell, who has won titles at the city, state and national levels, is that it has become too positional, without the mistakes and dazzling reversals of past chess eras. It is just not that much fun to watch.
So this year, during the pandemic, Oliver wrote a book analyzing 25 great games dating back to 1851. Move by move, he pulls apart Paul Morphys legendary queen sacrifice at the opera house in Paris, 1858, and Bobby Fischers unfathomable comeback against Robert Byrne, a New York Times chess columnist, in New York, 1963. Most of these games were played well before Oliver was even born. He is 10.
His book is called Hes Got Moves: 25 Legendary Chess Games (As Analyzed by a Smart Kid). And yes, Oliver liked Netflixs series The Queens Gambit, with one reservation.
It was quite accurate on how someone might become a great chess player, but maybe there would be more downfalls, he said. There was just the one player who kept beating her, and then the one championship that she lost. A real-life player usually suffers a lot more than just two opponents.read more

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