CHESSBOOK REVIEWS 
Latest book reviews of 1 January 2020
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Chess Books
Chess Tests: Reinforce Key Skills and Knowledge
by Mark Dvoretsky
2019
Russell Enterprises
208 pages
Price €24.95
ISBN 978-19499859-06-5
ChessBase Complete - 2019 Supplement: Covering ChessBase 13, 14 & 15
by Jon Edwards
2019
Russell Enterprises
93 pages
Price €14.95
ISBN 978-1-949859-09-6
The well known Jon R.Edwards comes with a complete new supplement from over 90 pages, holding the latest tips and tricks of ChessBase13,14 and 15.
Again Edwards helps you to get the maximum use of your ChessBase edition, again with useful screenshots and instructive explanations.
In ChessBase 13 the chess cloud makes it’s appearance, and it is now no problem for coaches to work with chess students anywhere in the world!
Also ChessBase 13 provides support for the Syzgy TableBases,there endgame Turbo-4 is for quite some time available at the ChessBase web shop.
It contains 4 DVD’s containing all five piece and 27 six piece endgames.
New in ChessBase 14 is assisted analysis and tactical analysis and finally in big lines ChessBase 15 is also gravitating more and more to the internet
with web applications for mobile devices.
With ChessBase we are able to use chess engines that run on Monte Carlo techniques, and bring Artificial intelligence into our home!
Personally I am a experienced ChessBase user, but have to admit that I did learn a lot from Edwards!
Conclusion: Very useful!
Kaufman's New Repertoire for Black and White: A Complete, Sound and User-friendly Chess Opening Repertoire
by
Larry Kaufman
2019
New in Chess
http://www.newinchess.com/
456 pages
Price € 29,95
ISBN: 978-90-5691-862-0
Kaufman’s New Repertoire for Black and White is not a updated second edition but GM and computer expert Larry Kaufman has completely revised his repertoire from the White side and is now recommending 1.e4 instead of 1.d4 in this brand new heavy weight!
This 2019 release has been motivated by the so called MCTS {Monte Carlo Tree Search, a method for computer engines to choose which moves to investigate}revolution, because MCTS engines favour lines that are apt to work in over-the-board play against humans, not just ones intended for correspondence play vs. engines.
As Kaufman explains: The reason is that normal engines assume "perfect" play by the opponent, while MCTS merely assumes "good" play. My hope was that the analysis would be very different from books that use traditional engines. Of course there are good and bad moves in chess, so there is considerable overlap, but I expect people will see substantial differences from existing theory.
In big lines there are no major changes for black after 1.d4, although the games and analysis are heavily revised. With a lot of included 2019 material.
For Black, the main change is that the Breyer defence to the Spanish is now a backup line, with the Marshall Gambit has become a important main line,included at last is an extra chapter on the Moller Defence,a good option as Kaufman explains if Black hopes to have some winning chances without undue risk.
Interesting are the words from Kaufman on the Latvian Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5? The Latvian Gambit,but I would call it the Latvian blunder, since black gets absolutely nothing for the pawn in the game line or else suffers an awful position to regain it.
And 2…d5 is after Kaufman not so bad as the Latvian it seems because at least black can get some compensation for the pawn in the Elephant.
And in the Spanish Exchange Bobby’s Fischer favourite petline Kaufman prefers 1.e4 e4 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.0-0 Bg4! Not bad is 5….Qf6 which is not bad but also not quite equal.
As we can see in this book the various repertoire systems are all well worked out with high tech chess engines and that makes this book also very useful for correspondence chess!
Conclusion: The perfect chess companion!
Keep it Simple: 1.d4: A Solid and Straightforward Chess Opening Repertoire for White
by Christof Sielecki
2019
New in Chess
http://www.newinchess.com/
423 pages
Price € 29.95
ISBN: 978-90-5691-867-5
The IM from Germany Christof Sielecki providers the local club player and the even more ambitious chess student with a fine follow up from his well made 1.e4 repertoire book, {Keep it Simple 1.e4 }which we had last year on our website.
This time our author,{Keep it Simple 1.d4},goes in big lines for the easy to memorize move order 1.d4, 2.Nf3, 3.g3,4.Bg2 and 5.0-0.
It looks all very simple but as we can learn from Sielecki,the black player has to stay sharp: Kramnik,Vladimir (2808) – Vocaturo,Daniele (2583) [A49]
Olympiad-42 Baku (11.1), 13.09.2016
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.0-0 d6 6.b3 e5 7.dxe5 dxe5 8.Ba3 Qxd1 9.Rxd1 Re8 10.c4 e4 11.Nd4 c6 12.Nc3 Na6 13.e3 Bg4 14.Rd2 Rad8 15.h3 Bc8 16.Rad1 h5 17.Be7 Rxd4 18.Rxd4 Rxe7 19.Rd8+ Ne8 20.Nxe4 Be6 21.Ra8 Be5 22.Rdd8 Kf8 23.Rxa7 Bc7 24.Rda8 Bb6 25.Rxa6 bxa6 26.Nf6 Bd7 27.b4 c5 28.Nd5 Bc6 29.Rxa6 Bxd5 30.Bxd5 Bd8 31.b5 Rd7 32.b6 Ke7 33.b7 Bc7 34.Ra8 Nf6 35.Rc8 Bd6 36.Bc6 Rd8 37.a4 Nd7 38.a5 Bb8 39.a6 Ne5 40.Rxb8 Rxb8 41.Bd5 1-0.
The 6.b3 line and the bishop fianchetto belongs to one of Kramnik’s favourite lines of this moments and his results with it are truly more than impressive.
All together these King’s Indian lines are good for over twenty pages of instructive text!
Covered are also lines as Catalan, Anti Chigorin, Tarrasch Defence,Grünfeld reversed, Dutch, Old Indian and more!
Conclusion: Simple but on the other hand a very dangerous repertoire book!
The Club Player's Modern Guide to Gambits: Fighting Chess from the Get-go
by Nikolai Kalinichenko
2019
Russell Enterprises
93 pages
Price €24.95
ISBN 978-1-941270-76-9
The renowned theoretician correspondence Grandmaster Nikolai Kalinichenko provides the reader in these 255 pages with a unbelievable collection smashing gambits.
This work holds around 50 major gambits pleasant enough for around 135 complete games, often included with many extra game fragments.
Even in the time of latest chess engines as Alpha Zero we still play gambit as for example the Marshall Gambit,and often with excellent results:
Ivanchuk,Vassily (2715) - So,Wesley (2762) [C88]
Tata Steel-A 77th Wijk aan Zee (8), 18.01.2015
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Nbd2 Qd7 12.Nxe5 Nxe5 13.Rxe5 Nf4 14.Nf3 Nxg2 15.Kxg2 a5 16.Rxe7 Qxe7 17.c3 Ra6 18.d4 Rf6 19.d5 a4 20.Bc2 Rd8 21.Qe1 Qd7 22.Ng5 h6 23.Ne4 Rg6+ 24.Kh2 f5 25.Ng3 Qxd5 26.Qg1 Qf3 0-1
14….Nxg2!! is the key point of the black sacrifice, a nice idea indeed! It had been worked out by computers and it had already been tested in tournaments as well, for that reason it is really surprising that Ivanchuk was not aware of that. Nikolai Kalinichenko is not so negative about the Latvian Gambit as our chess friend Larry Kaufmann: Black cannot achieve near equality with correct play by his adversary. He may still have reasonable practical chances if he knows the subject better than his opponent.
A fine example comes from the Latvian Gambit expert Jonny Hector:
Psomiadis,Stavros - Hector,Jonny (2535) [C40]
Katerini op Katerini, 1992
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.exf5 e4 4.Qe2 Qe7 5.Nd4 Nc6 6.Qh5+ Kd8 7.Nxc6+ dxc6 8.Be2 Nf6 9.Qg5 h6 10.Qe3 Bxf5 11.0-0 Nd5 12.Qd4 Qd6 13.d3 Nb4 14.Qc3 exd3 15.cxd3 Be7 16.a3 Nd5 17.Qb3 Qe5 18.Bf3 Bd6 19.g3 Qd4 20.Bxd5 Qxd5 21.Qxd5 cxd5 22.d4 Kd7 23.Nc3 c6 24.b4 b5 25.Be3 a5 26.Bd2 axb4 27.axb4 Bd3 28.Rfc1 Bxb4 29.Ne4 Bxd2 30.Nxd2 Bc4 31.Nf3 Rhe8 32.Ne5+ Kd6 33.f4 c5 34.dxc5+ Kxc5 35.Re1 b4 36.Nd7+ Kd6 37.Nb6 Rxa1 38.Rxa1 Kc6 39.Nxc4 dxc4 0-1.
Conclusion: A must for all gambit lovers!
Chess Opening Workbook for kids by Graham Burgess
2019
Gambit Publications Ltd
http://www.gambitbooks.com
E-mail info@gambitbooks.com
128 pages
Price $16.95
ISBN (10 digits):1-911465-37-6
Chess Opening Workbook for Kids is the second in a new series of learning books that will help the young chess student to improve his of hers chess skills in a impressive way.
Simple study the hundreds of careful selected exercises as double attacks, trapped pieces, mates and more.
Instructive are the tips on opening play as how to make advance of weaknesses and poorly played pieces.
Later chapters hold important key aspects of opening play, as centre play, development and castling.
This lovely made works ends with a series of seven graded tests where the reader are given clues about the involved themes.
Conclusion: Highly recommended to all starters in chess!
Chess Endgame Workbook for kids by John Nunn
2019
Gambit Publications Ltd
http://www.gambitbooks.com
E-mail info@gambitbooks.com
128 pages
Price $16.95
ISBN (10 digits):1-911465-38-4
Chess Opening Workbook for Kids is the third in a new series of learning books that will
help the young chess student to improve his of hers endgame skills.There is simple no better way to learn chess by starting at the end.The successful Soviet School
of chess taught there students to start with endgames.
Each chapter deals with a specific type of endgame and features dozens of exercises with solutions that are related to the key points.
This book ends with a series of test papers that enable you to assess your progress and identify the areas that need more attention.
Dr.John Nunn belongs to one of the greatest endgame experts of our time.
Conclusion: Outstanding instructive!
Chess DVD's
The London System with 2.Bf4 Reloaded
by Simon Williams
2019
http://www.chessbase.com
E-Mail info@chessbase.com
Price Euro 29.90
Windows 7 or higher
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and internet access for program activation.
MacOSX only available as download! Minimum: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10
Grandmaster Simons Williams explains in a impressive over seven hours video entertainment the secrets of the London System where white plays a set of solid moves starting with an early 2.Bf4 { 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 }
Williams does not only cover a important repertoire for the user of this DVD but also presents the ambitious chess with various mainlines plus a collection of tricky sidelines to out play your opponent in no time.In many lines white is able to go from out the dark into a
killing attack.
This all comes with well made interactive training and play features.
The London is a very popular opening at club level where white’s development plan is easy to learn specially with the educative sessions of the highly experienced Simon Williams.
And all the new ideas and novelties on this DVD are more than impressive!
A fine example of play comes from wonderboy Magnus:Magnus Carlsen (2844) - Evgeny Tomashevsky (2728) [A46]
1st Intro Game Wijk aan Zee NED (6), 22.01.2016
e6 3.Bf4 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.h3 Be7 6.Bd3 0-0 7.0-0 c5 8.c3 Nc6 9.Nbd2 d5 10.Qe2 Bd6 11.Rfe1 Ne7 12.Rad1 Ng6 13.Bxg6 hxg6 14.Bxd6 Qxd6 15.Ne5 g5 16.f4 gxf4 17.Rf1 Nd7 18.Qh5 Nf6 19.Qh4 Qd8 20.Rxf4 Ne4 21.Nxe4 Qxh4 22.Rxh4 dxe4 23.dxc5 bxc5 24.Rd7 Rab8 25.b3 a5 26.Rc7 a4 27.bxa4 Ba8 28.a5 Rb7 29.Rxc5 Ra7 30.Nc4 1-0
Conclusion: Impressive made!
Tactic Toolbox London System
by Simon Williams
2019
http://www.chessbase.com
E-Mail info@chessbase.com
Price Euro 29.90
Windows 7 or higher
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and internet access for program activation.
MacOSX only available as download! Minimum: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10
A other brilliant product from Grandmaster Simon Williams is this tactic tool box based on lines of the London System.
This DVD is good for around 60 sections and it will only take a small 3 hours and 14 minutes of your time but on the other hand it will help you to recognize London patterns as no other.
This all comes with interactive training plus video feedback and I can insure you this is ChessBase on it’s best!
Included is a bonus of 82 extra games plus 154 training questions and that makes it all the perfect trainings companion!
Also for trainings sections on the London System!
Conclusion: There is no better way to improve your understanding of the London System!
Fritz Powerbook 2020
2019
http://www.chessbase.com
E-Mail info@chessbase.com
Price Euro 69.90
System requirements: Pentium PC, 2 GB RAM, Windows 10, 8 or 7 and Fritz 13, 14, 15, 16 or ChessBase 15, 14, 13 or 12 and DVD drive.
This brand new PowerBook 2020 holds over 25 million openings positions!
These 25 million openings positions is an unbelievable amount of chess information, which can not be hold in any printed way.
Deep Blue only had a openings book from over 4,000 positions and 700,000 grandmaster games!
It's hold a Hugh amount of extra chess information as all the moves that where played in the position, plus rating, success and performance.
Included is a smaller but super strong grandmaster Openings book.{Good for around two million positions!}
Powerbook 2020 represents the state of the art of in current openings theory. Discover exciting and tricky new lines and practice them against Fritz. In addition the DVD has a small but very exclusive book with the strongest GM games (ELO >= 2550) from the past 100 years (Around 2.7 Mio positions).
The setup files come with Setup Powerbook 2020 Database,Setup Strong Powerbook 2020 Database,Setup Powerbook 2020 and
Setup Strongbook 2020
Conclusion: This Powerbook 2020 will change your Fritz or ChessBase in to a super machine!
CORR Database 2020
2019
http://www.chessbase.com
E-Mail info@chessbase.com
Price Euro 189.90
System requirements: Pentium PC, 2 GB RAM, Windows 10, 8 or 7 and Fritz 13, 14, 15, 16 or ChessBase 15, 14, 13 or 12 and DVD
The modern correspondence with his fast computer and high tech related Alpha Zero chess engines is able to generate high quality chess games, much higher level and ofthen much more interesting than over the board played games.
The player of today does not learn from grandmaster games as we once did,the chess student of today prefers modern winning moves in the style from Alpha Zero.
This brand new update of CORR Database 2020 comes with a impressive over 1,570,000 games and that is a small 139000 extra new CC games.
Plesant enough the Corr Database 2020 is well packed {new design!} comes with interesting extra’s as ten high class opening videos from famous ChessBase authors as: Simon Williams, Yannick Pelletier, Mihail Marin, Erwin l’Ami, Vidit Gujarathi, Georgios Souleidis, and more.But there is more as four high class endgame videos from the GM Karsten Müller,for me the greatest endgame expert of this moment. The new menu make access and navigation not only easier but above all must faster!
Conclusion: This is a must have product!
ChessBase Magazine issue 192 Extra
December 2019
ChessBase
http://www.chessbase.com
E-Mail info@chessbase.com
ISSN 1432-8992
Euro 19.95
System requirements:
Minimum: Pentium III 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Windows Vista, XP (Service Pack 3), DirectX9 graphic card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 12/Fritz 13 or included Reader and internet connection for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel Core i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, DirectX10 graphic card (or compatible) with 512 MB RAM or better, 10
Mihail Marin takes a Video game Ding Liren vs. Teymour Radjabov from the final of the FIDE World Cup, and the well known chess genius Praggnanandhaa world champion under 18 shows one of his video games against Iran’s No. 1.
Adrian Mikhalchishin video digs in the Grünfeld Defence, with the moves: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 0-0 7.e4 Bg4.
The Update Service offers you with over 23,000 new games, taken between 20/9 and 16/11,Lucky bag hold 37 entries but they are all well analysed..
For example please see: Karthikeyan,Murali (2593) - Adhiban,Baskaran (2676) [C68]
Asian Continental op 18th Xingtai (6), 09.06.2019
[Adhiban, Baskaran]
Until this game my tournament was going pretty well and this one game managed to completely ruin a good event! So it is time to get down to business and figure out what exactly went wrong! 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 I was surprised to face this in two times in 3 months... and only later on during the analysis of this game I came to realize that I have a pretty depressing score here, something which I should paid attention much earlier :). 4...dxc6 5.Nc3!? An interesting choice, since at the moment counting this game my personal score stands at 0% :). [5.0-0 was what Naiditch chose against me which was also analyzed by me in an earlier CBM magazine. 5...Qf6 6.d4 exd4 7.Bg5 Qd6 8.Nxd4 Be7 (8...Bd7 was what I did which is also decent.) 9.Bxe7 Nxe7 10.Nc3 Bd7 This position is quite fine for Black, so I don't know why players keep going for it from white. 11.Nde2 0-0-0 12.Qc1 Ng6 13.Qe3 Kb8 14.Rad1 Qe7 15.f4 Bc8 16.Nc1 Rxd1 17.Rxd1 b6 18.Nd3 a5 19.Re1 Ba6 20.Nf2 Re8 21.a3 f6 22.Ne2 Bb7 23.Ng3 c5 24.Nf5 Qf7 25.Rd1 Nf8 26.c3 a4 27.h3 Ne6 28.Ng3 Bc6 29.Rd2 Nd8 30.Qd3 Nb7 31.Kh2 Nd6 32.Rd1 h5 33.Re1 h4 34.Nf1 Qb3 35.e5 fxe5 36.fxe5 Qxb2 37.Re2 Qb5 38.Qc2 Nc4 39.e6 Nxa3 0-1 (39) Naiditsch,A (2695)-Svidler,P (2735) Karlsruhe/Baden Baden GER 2019] 5...f6 6.d3 [6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4 c5 8.Nde2 Qxd1+ 9.Nxd1 Be6!? (My other loss in this line continued 9...Bd7 10.Bf4 0-0-0 11.Ne3 Bc6 The bishop is kind of stupid here. 12.f3 Ne7 13.Rd1 Re8 14.Kf2 Ng6 15.Bg3 Ne5 16.h4 h5 17.Bxe5 fxe5 18.c4 Bd7 19.Rd3 Be6 20.b3 g6 21.Ng1 Bh6 22.Nh3 Bxh3 It is never a good idea to give up the bishop pair. 23.Rxh3 Rd8 24.Rxd8+ Rxd8 25.Ke2 c6 26.Rh1 Rd4 27.g3 Kc7 28.Rc1 Kd6 It should be a draw if both players just sit still! 29.Rc2 b5 30.Nd1 bxc4 31.bxc4 Bf8 32.Nb2 Be7 33.Rc3 g5 34.hxg5 Bxg5 35.Rd3 h4 36.gxh4 Bxh4 37.Rxd4+ cxd4 38.Nd3 Bg3 39.c5+ Kc7 40.a4 a5 41.Kf1 Kd7 42.Nb2! Suddenly Black is completely lost due to his fixed pawn structure. 42...Bf4 43.Nc4 d3 44.Kf2 Kc8 45.Nxa5 Kc7 46.Nc4 Kb7 47.Nb2 d2 48.Ke2 Ka7 49.Nd3 Be3 50.Nxe5 Bxc5 51.Kxd2 Bd6 52.Nc4 Bf4+ 53.Kd3 Kb7 54.e5 Kc7 55.Ke4 Bh6 56.f4 c5 57.f5 Kc6 58.f6 Bf8 59.e6 Bh6 60.e7 Kd7 61.Ne5+ Ke8 62.Kd5 Bf4 63.Ke6 (Bajarani-Adhiban Abu Dhabi 2007) Possibly my terrible performance in this game was one of the reasons for Karthi's choice :)) 10.Bf4 0-0-0 11.h4 Ne7 12.Ne3 Nc6 13.h5 c4 14.Rd1 Bc5 was a much more impressive setup as used by my opp in (Himanshu-Karthikeyan Ind-ch 2017)] 6...Ne7 [6...c5 7.Be3 Bd6 was another way bringing the knight to c6.; One of the top level games in this line continued 6...Bg4 7.h3 Bh5 8.Be3 Bd6 9.Qd2 Ne7 10.g4 Bf7 11.Nh4 Qd7 12.f4 exf4 13.Bxf4 g5 14.Bxd6 cxd6 15.Nf5 Nxf5 16.exf5 0-0-0 17.0-0-0 h5 18.Ne4 Rh6 19.Nxf6! A nice shot. 19...Rxf6 20.Qxg5 Qe7 21.Rde1 Be6 22.fxe6 hxg4 23.hxg4 and White won in Beliavsky-Damljanovic 1991.] 7.Be3 Ng6 8.Qe2 c5 Stopping d4 once for all! [8...Be6³ was my first intention and I should have gone for it as there was no real need to prevent d4.] 9.Nd2 Be6 10.a4 Qd7!? I just decided to continue developing. [10...a5 seemed to fix the structure unfavourably.] 11.g3 0-0-0 [One of the moves which I wanted to make it work was 11...Ne7!! The key is to feel the right moment to make such a decision! 12.Bxc5 Nc6 13.Bxf8 (13.Be3 0-0-0) 13...Nd4 14.Qd1 Rxf8 looks so nice but I didn't expect that it would be so pleasant for me, while White is just struggling.] 12.a5 h5!? Forcing h4 which would weaken the kingside. 13.h4 Bd6 14.f3 Qc6 15.Nc4 Nf8 Bringing the knight to d4 and here I got bit nervous thinking about stupid things and offered a draw... 16.Nxd6+ Qxd6 [16...Rxd6 was also possible.] 17.Qf2 Nd7 [17...c4 18.dxc4] 18.Na4 [I was expecting 18.b3! where I intended to continue 18...f5 fighting for counter play.] 18...c4 19.dxc4 [I was more concerned about 19.0-0!? , another possibility giving up the pawn and playing for attack.] 19...Bxc4 [19...Qb4+ 20.Bd2 Qxc4 21.b3 (21.Qa7) 21...Qxc2 22.0-0] 20.b3 Bb5 21.Nc3 Qb4 22.Bd2 Qd4 23.Qxd4 exd4 I was quite happy with my position but my spirit wasn't!! 24.Nd5 Here he offered a draw. 24...Rde8 Trying to tempt fate : ). [24...Rhe8 was definitely better! 25.Bf4 (25.Kf2 f5) 25...Ne5 with a nice position for me, though I guess White should be able to equalize.] 25.Bf4! I completely missed this active option for my opponent and after this I am in trouble! 25...Ne5 26.Kf2 And now the d4-pawn might soon wither away. .. 26...c5 27.Rad1 f5 28.exf5 Nxf3 [Good or bad, I had to go for 28...Bc6 29.Nb6+ Kd8 with some chances to save the game.] 29.Kxf3 [29.c4! was just winning on the spot! 29...dxc3 30.Nb6#] 29...Be2+ 30.Kf2 Bxd1 31.Rxd1 Rhf8 32.f6 gxf6 33.Bd6 Rf7 34.Nb6+ Kd8 35.Bxc5 I feel like I lost this game when I offered draw, so that is the biggest learning from this game! 1-0.
Conclusion: Super material for a bargain price!
