Dr. Anthony Saidy vs Jeremy Silman (1989)

Dr. Anthony Saidy vs Jeremy Silman
USA 1989 · English Opening: King's English. Two Knights' Variation Smyslov System (A22) · 1/2-1/2

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Mar-09-07		Autoreparaturwerkbau: Lol. Black forced a nice way to settle for a draw.

Jul-05-08		SufferingBruin: FWIW, this is the first game in Silman's "How to Reassess Your Chess," analyzed extensively starting on p. 29.

Aug-07-08		ravel5184: Just wondering, but does "FWIW" stand for "for what it's worth"? I am not exactly the acronym-deciphering machine.

Feb-14-09		ChessDaZaster: In Jeremy Silman’s book “The Amateurs Mind” (2nd Ed., page 52) he chides a student for saying that pawns in a particular position (Hort vs V Ciocaltea, 1973) are backward (those on d6 and h7). He states: “Those are not backward pawns! A pawn is only backward if it stands on an open file (which these don’t) and if it doesn’t have a brother pawn behind it or directly to the side of it.” However, in his book “Reassess Your Chess” (3rd Ed. Page 32), he states that after 11…b5 12.cxb5 cxb5 from this game, “…Black would have made a gain in queenside territory and also created a weakness in White’s camp – a backward pawn on c3.” But after these moves the pawn on c3 has a pawn directly to side of it on d3 so by Silman’s definition, it can’t be a backward pawn. That said, I have yet to find a good definition of "backward pawn". Comments?

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from his book...Reassess your Chess pg 29
from Silman's Books by howardb86

p. 29-33 / Imbalances and the 'Silman Thinking Technique'
from IM Jeremy Silman: "How to Reassess Your Chess" by EmperorAtahualpa