Chess Column: IM Nikola Karaklajic
IM Nikola Karaklajic, born on 1926, is famous player, writer, lecturer, arbiter (Fischer-Spassky 1992), Olympiad captain, radio DJ and the first man to bring The Beatles vinyl in then Yugoslavia. The work he did on endgames and studies is impressive to say the least, and his engaging personality made him one of favorite characters in the chess universe.
Nikola is nowadays writing weekly chess column for newspaper “Danas”. I believe his work is better than in most of currently active online editions, but unfortunately his column is not available in English. I invite Chess Strategy readers to email the editors (desk@danas.co.yu) and ask them to provide English version of this fantastic column.
Here is only one of today’s puzzles (there are four in total), it is white to move and win. Try to solve it.
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vipiu said,
Wrote on February 14, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
nice one…
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the funny thing is that after(a lot) I got the solution I went to check it against my pocketPC engine(supposed to be about 2400 strength)…
you must see its evaluation, completely wrong
ok, probably a stronger engine would get the solution in longer time, but it is still nice to see engines going wrong