12. Bd2!?
An interesting novelty that was introduced by Anish Giri against Kramnik in 2014.
By this paradoxical retreat White attacks the a5-pawn aiming to prevent the planned knight maneuver to b4.
12...Nbd7 13. Nc3 Ne4 14. Nxe4 Bxe4 15. Ng5 Bxg2 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Kxg2 c5 18. Bc3
An interesting novelty that was introduced by Anish Giri against Kramnik in 2014.
By this paradoxical retreat White attacks the a5-pawn aiming to prevent the planned knight maneuver to b4.
12...Nbd7 13. Nc3 Ne4 14. Nxe4 Bxe4 15. Ng5 Bxg2 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Kxg2 c5 18. Bc3
13...b6!
A typical idea. Allow the exchange of the dark-squared bishops, but achieve: a) A knight on e4. b) Pawns on a5 and b6. c) The break .. .c5. All these moves attack the dark squares that Black's exchanged dark-squared bishop no longer can attack and that White's exchanged dark-squared bishop no longer can defend.
14.f3 Nxd2 15.Qxd2 Nf6 16.Rfd1 Ba6!
Typical square for the light-squared bishop.
A typical idea. Allow the exchange of the dark-squared bishops, but achieve: a) A knight on e4. b) Pawns on a5 and b6. c) The break .. .c5. All these moves attack the dark squares that Black's exchanged dark-squared bishop no longer can attack and that White's exchanged dark-squared bishop no longer can defend.
14.f3 Nxd2 15.Qxd2 Nf6 16.Rfd1 Ba6!
Typical square for the light-squared bishop.
21...Qc7!
Very noticeable: Yusupov is always looking to exchange queens in Dutch endings. Maybe the reasoning is that Black's weaknesses are more apparent with queens on, while his strengths (extra space) are more apparent with the queens off?
22.Qxc7 Bxc7 23.Nc6 a6 24.Nb4 a5 25.Nd3 g4=/+
The very typical theme for Yusupov: fixing the kingside with ...g4. He does this very often in the middlegame as well.
Very noticeable: Yusupov is always looking to exchange queens in Dutch endings. Maybe the reasoning is that Black's weaknesses are more apparent with queens on, while his strengths (extra space) are more apparent with the queens off?
22.Qxc7 Bxc7 23.Nc6 a6 24.Nb4 a5 25.Nd3 g4=/+
The very typical theme for Yusupov: fixing the kingside with ...g4. He does this very often in the middlegame as well.
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C: c6 – 2
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B: Nc5 – 1
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 568
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C: Qc7 – 1
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🔸 Savielly Tartakower
🔸 French-Polish journalist and Chess Grandmaster
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🔸 French-Polish journalist and Chess Grandmaster
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✴️#about_Tartakower
🔸 Savielly Tartakower
🔸 French-Polish journalist and Chess Grandmaster
🔰 Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1920s and 1930s whose books remain popular even today. Tartakower is remembered for his sharp wit and aphorisms.
🔘 Full name: Ksawery Tartakower
🔘 Country: Poland France
🔘 Born: 22 February 1887
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
🔘 Died: 4 February 1956 (aged 68)
🔘 Paris, France
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1950)
🔰 Savielly Grigoriewitsch Tartakower was born in Russia and moved to Vienna at age 17. He became a doctor of law in 1909, but he never became a practicing lawyer(1). During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1918, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, he became a Polish citizen (although he did not speak Polish) and moved to Paris. He became a French citizen after World War II.
🔰 He won Vienna (1923), Hastings (1926/27), London (1927) (shared with Aron Nimzowitsch), Hastings (1927/28), Scarborough (1929) (shared with Harold Saunders), Liege (1930), and Hastings (1945/46). He also won the Polish championship twice (1935 and 1937) and the French championship at age 63, in 1950. In the 1930s Tartakower represented Poland in six chess olympiads, and France in 1950, winning three individual medals (gold in 1931 and bronze in 1933 and 1935), as well as five team medals (gold in 1930, two silver in 1931 and 1939, and two bronze in 1935 and 1937).
♦️ A memorable game by Tartakower👇
▪️ Savielly Tartakower vs Mikhail Chigorin
▪️ Karlsbad (1907), Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) AUH, rd 3, Aug-23
▪️ Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid (C28)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Savielly Tartakower
🔸 French-Polish journalist and Chess Grandmaster
🔰 Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1920s and 1930s whose books remain popular even today. Tartakower is remembered for his sharp wit and aphorisms.
🔘 Full name: Ksawery Tartakower
🔘 Country: Poland France
🔘 Born: 22 February 1887
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
🔘 Died: 4 February 1956 (aged 68)
🔘 Paris, France
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1950)
🔰 Savielly Grigoriewitsch Tartakower was born in Russia and moved to Vienna at age 17. He became a doctor of law in 1909, but he never became a practicing lawyer(1). During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1918, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, he became a Polish citizen (although he did not speak Polish) and moved to Paris. He became a French citizen after World War II.
🔰 He won Vienna (1923), Hastings (1926/27), London (1927) (shared with Aron Nimzowitsch), Hastings (1927/28), Scarborough (1929) (shared with Harold Saunders), Liege (1930), and Hastings (1945/46). He also won the Polish championship twice (1935 and 1937) and the French championship at age 63, in 1950. In the 1930s Tartakower represented Poland in six chess olympiads, and France in 1950, winning three individual medals (gold in 1931 and bronze in 1933 and 1935), as well as five team medals (gold in 1930, two silver in 1931 and 1939, and two bronze in 1935 and 1937).
♦️ A memorable game by Tartakower👇
▪️ Savielly Tartakower vs Mikhail Chigorin
▪️ Karlsbad (1907), Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) AUH, rd 3, Aug-23
▪️ Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid (C28)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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3 World Champions. Standing (centre & right) - Anatoly Karpov (USSR) and Vassily Smyslov (USSR); seated - Max Euwe (Netherlands). Photographed at Schiphol Airport, 21st September 1977.
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Samuel Reshevsky Ponders the Position after 12. Qg4 in Game 6 of the 1961 Bobby Fischer—Samuel Reshevsky Match
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