To be a titled grandmaster in a major chess power these days is to be a pretty big fish in a pretty crowded aquarium.
The very first FIDE list of grandmasters, issued in 1950, listed just 27 players, including just two — Sammy Reshevsky and Reuben Fine — from the United States. By contrast, Russia alone boasts 256 grandmasters in the latest FIDE rating guide, the U.S. has just over 100, and 17 countries have more than the 27 from that first listing.
Winants, just 60, played on a record nine Belgian Olympiad teams, typically holding down first board paired against the Kasparovs and Anands of the world and scoring a highly respectable 48% over his career.
Black’s game collapses after 24 … e5 25. Nb6 Ra3 26. Bxe5 Qe6 27. Re1 Be7 28. Qb5+ Kf8 29. Bxg7+ Kxg7 30. Rxe6 fxe6. Carlsen actually has two rooks for a queen and two pawns. Unfortunately, his position remains a mess and White cleans up in style. Colle’s legacy, and the Queen’s pawn opening system he refined into a flexible and powerful opening system for White, would be carried on for decades by the charismatic, Antwerp-born George Koltanowski.
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