Update on Events

I hope everyone enjoyed the Sinquefield Cup, won by Ding Liren in an impressive playoff victory over Magnus Carlsen, and is enjoying the start of the Champions Showdown. This too is in St. Louis, with the matches Kasparov-Caruana, Aronian-Nakamura, Topalov-So, and Svidler-Dominguez. Some long-time readers may remember my asking about en passant errors, and the recent goings-on in St. Louis have supplied two examples of this. The first came in the first round of the Sinquefield Cup, when with oodles of time on the clock Ian Nepomniachtchi threw away an easy draw against Viswanathan Anand, while the second came a few moments ago when Hikaru Nakamura blundered an equal, sharp position against Levon Aronian. (To be fair, the preceding move was a losing move, so it only counts as an "en passant error", as I meant the term in my old blog post, if he was counting on the follow-up.)

As for books, I will start selling them tomorrow.