Naiditsch/Balogh: Most Interesting Draws of 2012-2015 Damen Gambit The conventional wisdom is that

The conventional wisdom is that greater experience should compensate for a loss of youthful energy

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Nxd4 Be7 and the Old Indian Defence

Players who try to calculate everything through to the end often get lost in a maze of variations

The sacrifice is one of the most beautiful and complex elements of chess

Naiditsch/Balogh: Most Interesting Draws of 2012-2015 Damen Gambit The conventional wisdom is thatArkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh analyze the 50 most interesting draws from the years 2012 2015. Draw has a very bad reputation in chess and indeed it can be really boring sometimes. However, there are also plenty of fighting games as well, where both players are trying their best in order to win the game, but it finally ends in a draw. This kind of extremely tense battles is exactly what the book is about. Contents Key to symbols Introduction