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A remarkable game from GM Simen Agdestein from the Norwegian championship 2023
The 56 year old GM won the Norwegian championship for the ninth time. One game in the spotlight.![GM Viktor Korchnoi](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:IbKchN6C:bz7r5roI.png&w=400&sig=30971795a45662f1c31cadf4c862c23249a33867)
Games from GM Viktor Korchnoi
From the 1977 biography by Korchnoi![White pawn on a chessboard](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:AMnQkqAm:J4zZR7Ys.png&w=400&sig=c62ff46fda12822f25b3042992cff413684e9469)
Harry, my friend
Remember a few years ago that sacrificing your h pawn after having castled short became topical in s…![Photo of the flower of the sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, grows out of mud, thus symbolising enlightenment.](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:SyXjYc26:po4xBrLA.png&w=400&sig=01985782eb07e3d3116dd406685b2f7e4beda7be)
"Inner peace is needed to play a good chess game" - GM Jan Timman
Local chess friends told me that GM Jan Timman said this during a chess lecture at the chess club![Brown sugar crystals](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:Ig3r47dF:T3FUndUZ.png&w=400&sig=41bd76fac593737855bd5da7b97be9b6e66c96cf)
Sugar blues - health, illness and death
In the last 5 years 4 family members died. 3 of them had cancer. I found that added sugar in food an…![IM Manuel Bosboom smiling and holding some red flowers](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:k03n8Ct0:0eHQYuX0.png&w=400&sig=740983bc37fea56c56d731bdd110d3523950fa0e)
Manuel Bosboom's immortal blitz game
Played in some chess pub in Amsterdam but deserves more praise![Photo of Botvinnik](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:KCCKfy8W:JqXZuCML.png&w=400&sig=e86df85c3fa190fe5ea83d15fa7662ef45239760)
Instructive bishop endgame win by Botvinnik
From Kotov-Botvinnik, 1955![A photo of psychiater Alfred Adler](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:q8DKVUVn:yp5WScAd.png&w=400&sig=900f125c7c90aa23a96a831b4d7d9b58f018d1b9)
"The courage to be disliked" book and chess - Part 4
Youth is important![Photo of Anton Rosmuller, chess player, bridge player, hiker, poet and amateur singer](https://image.lichess1.org/display?h=250&op=thumbnail&path=achja:ublog:OwLTDALx:nxhkMsg2.png&w=400&sig=9af328ef8e227643f8097ce6aa16cd70d68ae1e9)