Some Closure Required

A month of casual blogging has left me scratching my head about what I was working on before the year end holidays. After a long series of light posts, it's time to get back to weightier subjects, but what exactly? I know there's a book review lingering from

• Objective About Fischer, and its two predecessor posts.

I also have extensive notes somewhere to pull together on

• Engine Evaluation, a subject which threatens to fragment into a multitude of related topics.

Endgames are always an important topic on this blog. The latest incipient series was

• Endgames with Equivalent Piece (and Pawns), which was itself the continuation of a series on A Database for ICCF Finals and Openings from the ICCF Finals. Also related to the ICCF database was a post on material imbalances in the middlegame that was to be explored as part of 'Engine Evaluation'.

Before the 'Equivalent Piece' idea, I had an endgame series started on

• Masters of the Endgame, followed by Endgame Storyboard and Candidate Karpov's Endgame Technique. This was to be followed by a Fischer endgame from the 1972 title match.

Going back even further was

• A Magnus Carlsen Game Collection, which I've already scheduled in Green Light for TMERs.

It's no wonder I couldn't remember what I was working on. It's a huge pile of loose threads! Let's see what I can do with it in the weeks to come.