The Superfinals of 71st Russian menβs championship and 68th Russian womenβs championship will take place from 24th August till 6th September 2018 in Satka, Chelyabinsk Oblast.
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13-year-old Vincent Keymer has his 2nd GM norm and is co-leading the Xtracon Open with one round to go!
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10.Qe3!
QUESTION: Why the queen move? Castling looks more normal. ANSWER: With the text, White increases his control over the e5-square and prevents Black from playing the freeing move ...e6-e5. Instead, after 10.0-0-0 e5 11.Qe3 exd4 12.Rxd4 Nc5 13.Rf4 Qh6 Black had no problems in K.Shirazi-M. Quinteros, Jakarta 1978.
10...c5 11.0-0-0 b6 12.Bb5!+/-
Once Black can put his bishop on b7 he will equalize. 12.Bb5 prevents this as 12...a6 13.Bxd7 Bxd7 14.dxc5 wins a pawn.
QUESTION: Why the queen move? Castling looks more normal. ANSWER: With the text, White increases his control over the e5-square and prevents Black from playing the freeing move ...e6-e5. Instead, after 10.0-0-0 e5 11.Qe3 exd4 12.Rxd4 Nc5 13.Rf4 Qh6 Black had no problems in K.Shirazi-M. Quinteros, Jakarta 1978.
10...c5 11.0-0-0 b6 12.Bb5!+/-
Once Black can put his bishop on b7 he will equalize. 12.Bb5 prevents this as 12...a6 13.Bxd7 Bxd7 14.dxc5 wins a pawn.
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.e3 e6 5.Qf3 c5 6.0-0-0 a6 7.Nge2 Qa5 8.Bxf6 Nxf6
9.g4!
ANSWER: This is the point of 8 Bxf6. White gets in g4-g5 a move quicker. That said, although White was successful in this game, I do not recommend this plan at all.
9...b5 10.g5 Nd7 11.Nxf4 cxd4 12.Ncxd5 exd5 13.Qxd5 Ra7 14.Bh3 with a complicated game.
9.g4!
ANSWER: This is the point of 8 Bxf6. White gets in g4-g5 a move quicker. That said, although White was successful in this game, I do not recommend this plan at all.
9...b5 10.g5 Nd7 11.Nxf4 cxd4 12.Ncxd5 exd5 13.Qxd5 Ra7 14.Bh3 with a complicated game.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 581
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A: g5 β 5
πππππππ 63%
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C: a6 β 2
πππ 25%
Ahmad, George
B: Ne7 β 1
π 13%
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A: g5 β 5
πππππππ 63%
@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, Zhenrui, Matthew
C: a6 β 2
πππ 25%
Ahmad, George
B: Ne7 β 1
π 13%
@RichardPeng
π₯ 8 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 582
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C: Re5 β 6
πππππππ 75%
@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, @RichardPeng, Rachel, Zhenrui
A: NΓe6 β 2
ππ 25%
George, Matthew
B: Nf3
β«οΈ 0%
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public poll
C: Re5 β 6
πππππππ 75%
@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, @RichardPeng, Rachel, Zhenrui
A: NΓe6 β 2
ππ 25%
George, Matthew
B: Nf3
β«οΈ 0%
π₯ 8 people voted so far.
Two World Champions - Tigran Petrosian & Mikhail Tal.
8th USSR People's Spartakiad, in Moscow, during July 1983.
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8th USSR People's Spartakiad, in Moscow, during July 1983.
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The young Vasily Smyslov, in play v. Bondarevsky in the 5th round (USSR Championship 1940-September 9th) - a famous rook endgame..
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"In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master."
πΈ Vasily Smyslov
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πΈ Vasily Smyslov
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π #Reti_chess_quotes_003
πΉ Richard RΓ©ti
πΉ Chess composer
πΉ Austro-Hungarianchess grandmaster
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πΉ Richard RΓ©ti
πΉ Chess composer
πΉ Austro-Hungarianchess grandmaster
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π #about_Reti
πΉ Richard RΓ©ti
πΉ Chess composer
πΉ Austro-Hungarianchess grandmaster
π° Richard Selig RΓ©ti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess.
Full name: Richard Selig RΓ©ti
Country: Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Born: 28 May 1889
BΓΆsing, Austria-Hungary
(now Pezinok, Slovakia)
Died: 6 June 1929 (aged 40)
Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
π° Richard Reti was one of the top players in the world during the 1910s and 1920s, he began his career as a combinative classical player, favoring openings such as the King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4). After the end of the First World War, however, his playing style changed, and he became one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism, along with Aron Nimzowitsch and others. With the exception of Nimzowitsch's book My System, he is considered to be the movement's foremost literary contributor. He had his greatest early successes in the period 1918 through 1921, in tournaments in Kaschau (KoΕ‘ice; 1918), Rotterdam (1919), Amsterdam (1920), Vienna (1920), and Gothenburg (1921).
π°In 1925 RΓ©ti set a world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously. He won 21, drew 6, and lost 2.
π°RΓ©ti was also a notable composer of endgame studies.
β¦οΈ A memorable game by Reti which named "Reti to Roll" in chessgames.com site!π
βͺοΈ Richard Reti vs Akiba Rubinstein
βͺοΈ Karlsbad (1923), Karlsbad CSR, rd 5, May-04
βͺοΈ Zukertort Opening: Queen Pawn Defense (A06)
β¦οΈReview and download PGN fileπ
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πΉ Richard RΓ©ti
πΉ Chess composer
πΉ Austro-Hungarianchess grandmaster
π° Richard Selig RΓ©ti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess.
Full name: Richard Selig RΓ©ti
Country: Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Born: 28 May 1889
BΓΆsing, Austria-Hungary
(now Pezinok, Slovakia)
Died: 6 June 1929 (aged 40)
Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
π° Richard Reti was one of the top players in the world during the 1910s and 1920s, he began his career as a combinative classical player, favoring openings such as the King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4). After the end of the First World War, however, his playing style changed, and he became one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism, along with Aron Nimzowitsch and others. With the exception of Nimzowitsch's book My System, he is considered to be the movement's foremost literary contributor. He had his greatest early successes in the period 1918 through 1921, in tournaments in Kaschau (KoΕ‘ice; 1918), Rotterdam (1919), Amsterdam (1920), Vienna (1920), and Gothenburg (1921).
π°In 1925 RΓ©ti set a world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously. He won 21, drew 6, and lost 2.
π°RΓ©ti was also a notable composer of endgame studies.
β¦οΈ A memorable game by Reti which named "Reti to Roll" in chessgames.com site!π
βͺοΈ Richard Reti vs Akiba Rubinstein
βͺοΈ Karlsbad (1923), Karlsbad CSR, rd 5, May-04
βͺοΈ Zukertort Opening: Queen Pawn Defense (A06)
β¦οΈReview and download PGN fileπ
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