Diligent explorers of this website may have found a little collection
of the finest swindles that I had perpetrated in my career, up to the
point where I established this website. I pulled off another one
so appalling that I thought it too should be displayed as a dreadful
warning to others. The serendipity of life ensured that a week or
two before, hot new signing Tim Paulden had pulled off a win when a
piece down in an endgame, and a week or two after, I witnessed Ian
Jamieson come out with a win in a position that the most sympathetic
reading would say was unpromising.
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I am reminded of the wise words of Grigory Sanokoev:
“There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions
that can be saved.
“There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you
can play for a win.
“But at the same time, don’t forget that there is no such thing as a won
position in which it is impossible to lose.”
–Grigory SANAKOEV
[I am grateful to my esteemed former colleague Peter Lane for drawing
my attention to this quote.]