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Chess

Remembering Evgeny Sveshnikov

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

There be dragons! What we now call the Sveshnikov variation of the Sicilian defence was, in the 1970s, largely uncharted territory, and viewed with deep suspicion. Its modern name immortalises the Russian grandmaster whose pioneering analytical efforts, and practical success, put the variation on the map.

Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov died on 18 August at the age of 71.

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