The TCEC 25 superfinal book was made by Jeroen Noomen and will be something completely different from what you were used to. Inspired by GM Matthew Sadler's excellent book 'Re-engineering the chess classics' - a book that I can recommend to every chess enthousiast! - I decided that it was time for a change.
The TCEC 25 superfinal book consists of:
- 5 own picks that were never selected before in one of my previous TCEC books
- 45 chess classics, i.e. 45 opening lines taken from games of the Great Masters of the past; also including a couple of lines from human world championship matches
- Boris Spassky
- Bobby Fischer
- William Steinitz
- Anatoly Karpov
- Max Euwe
- Alexander Alekhine
- Paul Morphy
- Savielly Tartakower
- Siegbert Tarrasch
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- David Bronstein
- Carl Schlechter
- Emmanuel Lasker
- Mikhail Tal
- and several other well know chess masters from the past
The main selection criterions were: evaluation roughly between 40% and 60% winning chance & the position should be complex enough. I skipped the 'no mass exchanges in the starting position' criterion.
My expectations: Everything is possible: strings of draws, many wins, many lines leading to double wins. The finalists will be very strong and rather close in playing strength, so it's getting even harder to find lines that lead to a decisive result. So I just want exciting games, lots of fun and interesting takes by the engines on very well known games by the masters of the past.
Move length distribution
11 moves: 7 lines
> 12 moves: 2 lines