his game was played last week between Viswanathan Anand and Michael "Mickey" Adams at the London Chess Classic, on December 1, 2012.

 

   In the position on the right it is Black to move. 

 

   Answer below.

   I got a nice e-mail from one of my newsletter and blog readers, John W, who writes:

 

   "I noticed in an ad for your book that you want people to be able to read your book on various devices.  If that's the case, why chose a closed proprietary format like Mobi (used by kindle)?

 

   I've got an e-reader that I'll have in a week or so.  Couldn't afford the expensive kindle types but a $25 one works.

 

   Then I look and notice that it can't read kindle.  A little more checking and guess what? Almost nothing but a kindle can read kindle.

 

   There is a conversion technique - it seems complicated and requires a particular version of the kindle for pc application.

 

   Have you heard of authorstand.com?  They allow you to sell your books through them, but use a pdf format which means anything (including a kindle) can read them.

 

   Well, I'll be getting your book, but it stinks that I won't be able to use it on my little reader because of Amazon's proprietary format.  I suppose once I get it, I'll try to use that weird conversion method.

 

   Hopefully it will work as advertised.  lol

 

   Anyway, just wanted to tell you about this.  I continue to enjoy your newsletter and various articles.  I believe it to be primarily responsible for my current rating of 1839 on chessmaniac.com."

 

 

   My response:

 

 

   "Hey thanks John!

 

   Well the main reason is that Amazon and Kindle are the "800 pound gorilla" in the eBook world.

 

   I don't know the exact numbers, but something like 75-80% of all eBooks are sold by amazon for Kindle.

 

   They are expanding like crazy also.  Just this past week they started new Kindle stores in Brazil and Canada.

 

   Amazon has all the customers and traffic. They have a nice, easy to use platform for self publishers, and the free software to read a kindle book is available for a lot of platforms (iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, firefox, android, etc).

 

   We might eventually look at other platforms, iBooks, Nook, etc that would be in the ePub format.  Amazon makes you sign an "exclusive" agreement, that you will list your book only on their site for the first 90 days, so we could not put it on other platforms until this 90 days is over.

 

   Glad to hear that your rating is going up! That's super!"

  

 

   Here is the complete game:

 

[Event "London Chess Classic"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "2012.12.07"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Viswanathan Anand"]
[Black "Michael Adams"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A29"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2012.12.01"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 g6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bg7 7. Bg2 O-O 8.
O-O Re8 9. Nc2 d6 10. Bd2 a6 11. Rc1 Ne5 12. b3 c6 13. Be3 Nfg4 14. Bd4 c5 15.
Bxe5 Bxe5 16. Nd5 Rb8 17. h3 Nf6 18. Nce3 Nxd5 19. Nxd5 Qa5 20. Rc2 Bf5 21. Qd2
Qd8 22. Rcc1 b5 23. cxb5 axb5 24. Rfd1 h5 25. h4 Bg4 26. Ne3 Bd7 27. Bf3 Bd4
28. Nd5 b4 29. Rc4 Be5 30. Kg2 Ra8 31. Ne3 Ra7 32. Rcc1 Qe7 33. Nc4 Be6 34. Rc2
Bf5 35. e4 Be6 36. Nxe5 dxe5 37. Qe3 Ra5 38. Be2 Rd8 39. Rxd8+ Qxd8 40. Rxc5
Rxa2 41. Bc4 Qd1 42. Qh6 Bh3+ 0-1
 

 

   You can play through this game here: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1700635.

 

 

   Answer:

 

   Black has a cute mate in three with 42...Bh3+ 43.Kh2 Rxf2+ 44.Kxh3 Qh1#

 

 

   Happy Tactics!

 

   Your Friend,

 

   P.S. Be sure to check out the book if you haven't already! http://www.amazon.com/Tactics-Chess-Everyday-Players-ebook/dp/B009TBYA7U/