Riga 1979. From left to right: M.Tal, L.Polugaevsky, B.Gelman, L.Lyuboevich. Photo by M.Rabkin.
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"Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training."
🔸 Vladimir Kramnik
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Happy 75th birthday today to GM (1965) Lubosh Kavalek, born in Prague on Aug 9, 1943. He won 2 Czech chess championships & 3 US chess championships. In 1974, he was #10 in the world. He defected in 1968 and later came to the USA. He wrote for the Washington Post for 23 years.
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25th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival - Masters
After 3 rounds of the Abu Dhabi
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25th Abu Dhabi Masters 2018
25th Abu Dhabi Masters chess tournament LIVE with computer analysis on chess24.com
GM Igor Kovalenko (2641) take a sole lead in the 8th #RTUOpen after defeating GM Petrosyan (2567) in the 6th round.
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🔸Frank Marshall
🔸U.S. Chess Champion
🔰 Frank James Marshall was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
🔘Full name: Frank James Marshall
🔘Country: United States
🔘Born: August 10, 1877, New York City
🔘Died: November 9, 1944 (aged 67) , Jersey City
🔰 Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from age 8 to 19. He began playing chess at the age of 10, and by 1890 (aged 13) was one of the leading players in Montreal.
He won the 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress (scoring 13/15, ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker) and the U.S. congress in 1904, but did not get the national title because the U.S. champion at that time, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, did not compete. In 1906 Pillsbury died and Marshall again refused the championship title until he won it in competition in 1909.
🔰 In 1907 he played a match against World Champion Emanuel Lasker for the title and lost eight games, winning none and drawing seven. They played their match in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Memphis from January 26 to April 8, 1907.
🔰In 1909 he agreed to play a match with then young Cuban chess player José Capablanca, and to most people's surprise, lost eight games, drew fourteen, and won only one. After this defeat Marshall did not resent Capablanca; instead, he realized the young man had immense talent and deserved recognition. The American champion worked hard to ensure Capablanca had the chance to play at the highest levels of competition. Marshall insisted that Capablanca be permitted to enter the San Sebastián tournament in 1911, an exclusive championship promising to be one of the strongest yet in history. Despite much protest at his inclusion, Capablanca won the tournament.
🔰Marshall was best known for his great tactical skill. One aspect of this was the "Marshall swindle", where a trick would turn a lost game around. Andrew Soltis writes that, "In later years his prowess at rescuing the irretrievable took on magical proportions". Not so well known now, but appreciated in his day, was his endgame skill.
♦️ A memorable game by Marshal👇
🔸Frank James Marshall vs Jose Raul Capablanca
🔸Capablanca - Marshall (1909), Scranton, PA USA, rd 7, May-01
🔸Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense (D53)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸Frank Marshall
🔸U.S. Chess Champion
🔰 Frank James Marshall was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
🔘Full name: Frank James Marshall
🔘Country: United States
🔘Born: August 10, 1877, New York City
🔘Died: November 9, 1944 (aged 67) , Jersey City
🔰 Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from age 8 to 19. He began playing chess at the age of 10, and by 1890 (aged 13) was one of the leading players in Montreal.
He won the 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress (scoring 13/15, ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker) and the U.S. congress in 1904, but did not get the national title because the U.S. champion at that time, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, did not compete. In 1906 Pillsbury died and Marshall again refused the championship title until he won it in competition in 1909.
🔰 In 1907 he played a match against World Champion Emanuel Lasker for the title and lost eight games, winning none and drawing seven. They played their match in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Memphis from January 26 to April 8, 1907.
🔰In 1909 he agreed to play a match with then young Cuban chess player José Capablanca, and to most people's surprise, lost eight games, drew fourteen, and won only one. After this defeat Marshall did not resent Capablanca; instead, he realized the young man had immense talent and deserved recognition. The American champion worked hard to ensure Capablanca had the chance to play at the highest levels of competition. Marshall insisted that Capablanca be permitted to enter the San Sebastián tournament in 1911, an exclusive championship promising to be one of the strongest yet in history. Despite much protest at his inclusion, Capablanca won the tournament.
🔰Marshall was best known for his great tactical skill. One aspect of this was the "Marshall swindle", where a trick would turn a lost game around. Andrew Soltis writes that, "In later years his prowess at rescuing the irretrievable took on magical proportions". Not so well known now, but appreciated in his day, was his endgame skill.
♦️ A memorable game by Marshal👇
🔸Frank James Marshall vs Jose Raul Capablanca
🔸Capablanca - Marshall (1909), Scranton, PA USA, rd 7, May-01
🔸Queen's Gambit Declined: Lasker Defense (D53)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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