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Shirov Still Has It!
The Latvian Legend is still playing inspired, exciting chess!For a guy who's nearing 50, Alexei Shirov has been on quite the heater lately, first scoring +3 in the FIDE Grand Swiss (with draws against the likes of Yu Yangi, Alirez Firouja, Nikita Vitiugov, and MVL) and then giving us a very pretty attacking game in the European Team Championships. His wins the Grand Swiss are given below without commentary:
https://lichess.org/aoZ3j7Te
https://lichess.org/2Nx3eAEA
https://lichess.org/5Yr5bff0
I did some brief analysis and commentary on his game from the European Team Championships against Erdos below:
https://lichess.org/study/Evkvf46A/uWnZxhiK#1
For a video version, see my YouTube channel here:
https://youtu.be/lDVv984idjA
For those of us who think they might be too old to improve or play great chess, perhaps we need to reconsider!
-Tony