In a tournament honoring the great Soviet world champion Mikhail Tal, two of Tal’s foremost modern disciples did not exactly shine. Spanish GM Alexei Shirov and Russian GM Alexander Morozevich ...
Alexei Shirov is currently 59 th in the world, but, back in 1992, he was the world’s number 2 and in 1998 a very serious challenger for the world championship title. The 43-year-old, born very much in ...
The Latvian-born grandmaster Alexei Shirov, who now lives in Spain, is an attacking genius. At times, his chess seems from another planet -- too deep to understand, too confusing to imitate. His ...
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