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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Los Angeles 1963
▪️In 1963 famous cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and his wife Jaqueline gave a cup through the Piatigorsky Foundation for a chess tournament that would include two grandmasters from the USSR and two grandmasters from the USA.
Four grandmasters from other countries filled out the playing list.
▪️ The final player line-up consisted of:
🔻 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔻 Paul Keres
🔻 Samuel Reshevsky
🔻 Pal Benko
🔻 Fridrik Olafsson
🔻 Svetozar Gligoric
🔻 Oscar Panno
🔻 Miguel Najdorf
▪️ The tournament ran from the 2nd of July to the 30th of July 1963 in Los Angeles, USA. The players met in a double round all-play-all and the joint winners Petrosian and Keres returned to the Soviet Union with more than half of the $10,000 prize fund offered by the Piatigorsky Foundation. This tournament was the strongest to be held in the USA after New York 1927.
💢 The main source for this collection was the First Piatigorsky Cup tournament book edited by Isaac Kashdan.
💢 The Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966) was the next tournament that contested this trophy.
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download " Los Angeles 1963 Games Database" by PGN format👇
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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Los Angeles 1963
▪️In 1963 famous cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and his wife Jaqueline gave a cup through the Piatigorsky Foundation for a chess tournament that would include two grandmasters from the USSR and two grandmasters from the USA.
Four grandmasters from other countries filled out the playing list.
▪️ The final player line-up consisted of:
🔻 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔻 Paul Keres
🔻 Samuel Reshevsky
🔻 Pal Benko
🔻 Fridrik Olafsson
🔻 Svetozar Gligoric
🔻 Oscar Panno
🔻 Miguel Najdorf
▪️ The tournament ran from the 2nd of July to the 30th of July 1963 in Los Angeles, USA. The players met in a double round all-play-all and the joint winners Petrosian and Keres returned to the Soviet Union with more than half of the $10,000 prize fund offered by the Piatigorsky Foundation. This tournament was the strongest to be held in the USA after New York 1927.
💢 The main source for this collection was the First Piatigorsky Cup tournament book edited by Isaac Kashdan.
💢 The Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966) was the next tournament that contested this trophy.
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download " Los Angeles 1963 Games Database" by PGN format👇
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#chess_history_tornaments
#LosAngeles_1963
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Fabiano Caruana who's having a fantastic year full of victories.
The whole chess world is looking forward to the "Carlsen vs Caruana" World Championship match which will take place this November.
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The whole chess world is looking forward to the "Carlsen vs Caruana" World Championship match which will take place this November.
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Future grandmasters Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland) and Bent Larsen (Denmark), at the conclusion of their playoff match for the Nordic Championship, Reykjavík 1956.
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30 yrs ago, the 55th USSR Championship was under way in Moscow at the International Trade Centre . It was won by World Champion Garry Kasparov & Anatoly Karpov R7 ended in a draw.
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38. Qd7+?
Missing a golden opportunity. White could have won with:
38. Rf8! Qc4 39. b3 Qe6 40. Qd4 Ree2 41. h4 +-
38... Kg5 39. Qd8+ f6 40. Rxg6+ Kh4 =
Missing a golden opportunity. White could have won with:
38. Rf8! Qc4 39. b3 Qe6 40. Qd4 Ree2 41. h4 +-
38... Kg5 39. Qd8+ f6 40. Rxg6+ Kh4 =
41.Qd7??
White should have forced the draw with 41.Rd1!, intending Rd4.
41. Rd1! Rxh3+ 42. Kg1 Rxg2+ 43. Rxg2 Qe3+ 44. Rf2 Qg3+ 45.
Rg2 Qe3+ =
41... Rxg2 42. R1xg2 Rxh3+ 43. Kg1 Qc1+ 44. Kf2 Qe3+ 0-1
White should have forced the draw with 41.Rd1!, intending Rd4.
41. Rd1! Rxh3+ 42. Kg1 Rxg2+ 43. Rxg2 Qe3+ 44. Rf2 Qg3+ 45.
Rg2 Qe3+ =
41... Rxg2 42. R1xg2 Rxh3+ 43. Kg1 Qc1+ 44. Kf2 Qe3+ 0-1
39...Rb4??
Vietnamese GM made a blunder in a drawn endgame. He could have obtained a draw with the following continuation:
39... f1=Q+ 40. Kxf1 Kg3 41. Rg2+ Kf3 42. Rf2+ Kg3 43.Kg1 Ra1+ 44. Rf1 Ra2 45. f7 Rg2+ 46. Kh1 Rh2+ 47. Kg1 Rg2+ =
40. f7 Rb8 41. Re8 1-0
Vietnamese GM made a blunder in a drawn endgame. He could have obtained a draw with the following continuation:
39... f1=Q+ 40. Kxf1 Kg3 41. Rg2+ Kf3 42. Rf2+ Kg3 43.Kg1 Ra1+ 44. Rf1 Ra2 45. f7 Rg2+ 46. Kh1 Rh2+ 47. Kg1 Rg2+ =
40. f7 Rb8 41. Re8 1-0