Cordingley: comments by Bernard Cafferty
Bernard Cafferty kindly posted a comment on my blog, pointing out that he had written an article in the British Chess Magazine about The Next Move is. I wasn't aware of the article (my reading of the BCM has been fairly cursory in recent years, and indeed a year or so ago I stopped my subscription).
The article is posted here.
Bernard is very accurate in his critique of Cordingley's book. He says for instance that the puzzles were of variable quality, which they were, and often had solutions which were ten moves or longer.
The article looks at two games, as examples. One of these appealed in particular to me.
Rotlewi Bogoljubow, black to move
Bernard states that white wins by Be5-Rf3-K to d6. However, I think black can play 1…e5! and it is a draw…the same plan for white is countered by timely checks on d8, e8 etc. White is a tempo too short to win (he would of course win if it were his turn to move in the above position).
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