⚫️#621 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Suetin,A
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Moscow, 1972

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B: Rb4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
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A: Rh8 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
@RichardPeng, George

C: Bc8 – 1
👍 13%
@YaminiG

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#622 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Panno,O
🔸Vina del Mar, 1988

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 622
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B: Bc1 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
@payam6661, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, Rachel

C: B×c4 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
@YaminiG, @RichardPeng, George, Zhenrui

A: a4
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana Sign Championship Match Contracts.

http://fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/11104-magnus-carlsen-and-fabiano-caruana-sign-championship-match-contracts.html

Magnus Carlsen is back for Round 1 of the #SinquefieldCup that starts today, and there was some fighting talk on the eve of battle!

https://bit.ly/2OLQuyl

The Sinquefield Cup sees Magnus Carlsen and 9 more of the world's best players compete in the Saint Louis Chess Club from 18-27 August 2018. The event is the last leg of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour before the final in London, with Carlsen joining the tour regulars as a wild card. In addition to tour points the prize fund is $300,000, with $75,000 for 1st place.

Players receive 100 minutes for 40 moves then 60 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second delay from move 1. A tie for first place will be decided in a 2-game rapid mini-match (10 min + 5 sec delay), only between the top two, and if necessary an Armageddon game (5 vs. 4) on 28 August at 13:00 local time. Official website:

♦️ Grand Chess Tour:
https://grandchesstour.org/2018-grand-chess-tour/2018-sinquefield-cup

♦️ chess24:
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/grand-chess-tour-sinquefield-cup-2018#live

Winners of the 1964 Chess Olympiad at Tel Aviv. Left to right: Leonid Stein, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Botvinnik, Boris Spassky, Paul Keres and Tigran Petrosian.

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Sammy Reshevsky & Bobby Fischer, during their 1961 match (New York/Los Angeles). On the board is the final position from the 5th game, which features in 'My 60 Memorable Games.

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☑️ Fischer - Reshevsky (1961), Los Angeles, CA USA, rd 5,

⚪️🇺🇸 Samuel Reshevsky
⚫️🇺🇸 Robert James Fischer

Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Main Line (D42)

Result : 0-1

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“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer’s nature”

🔸 Rudolf Spielmann

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Reykjavík World Cup, October 1988- 7th-round , GM Andrei Sokolov (then USSR, now France) and World Champion Garry Kasparov. Sokolov won this game in 44 moves.

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☑️ Reykjavik World Cup (1988)

⚪️ Andrei Sokolov
⚫️ Garry Kasparov

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Amsterdam Variation (B93)

Result : 1-0

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✅ #donner_chess_quotes

🔹Jan Hein Donner
🔹Dutch chess grandmaster and writer

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✅ #about_Donner

🔹Jan Hein Donner
🔹Dutch chess grandmaster and writer

🔰Johannes Hendrikus Donner was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958. FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the GM title in 1959.

🔘Full name: Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner
🔘Country: Netherlands
🔘Born: July 6, 1927 / The Hague
🔘Died: November 27, 1988 (aged 61)
🔘Title: Grandmaster (1959)
🔘Peak rating: 2500 (July 1971)

🔰 Jan Hein Donner played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads 11 times (1950–1954, 1958–1962, 1968, 1972–1978). He was the uncle of the former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner.
On August 24, 1983 Donner suffered a stroke, which he wrote happened "just in time, because when you are 56 you do not play chess as well as you did when you were 26". After surviving the stroke, he went to live in Vreugdehof, which he described as "a kind of nursing-home". He was unable to walk, but had learned to type with one finger, and wrote for NRC Handelsblad and Schaaknieuws.

🔰Donner was also a chess columnist and writer. He was famous for his outspoken and often outrageous columns about subjects such as women, politics, and fellow Dutch grandmaster Lodewijk Prins, whom Donner claimed "cannot tell a knight from a bishop".

🔰In 1987, the book De Koning ("The King") was published, which contained 162 of his chess columns, all but the last written between 1950 and 1983, collected by Tim Krabbé and Max Pam. Also in 1987, Donner received the Henriёtte Roland-Holst Prize, one of the Netherlands' most prestigious literary awards, for Na mijn dood geschreven ("Written after my death"), a selection from the mini-columns he had written for NRC Handelsblad. On November 27, 1988, Donner died of a gastric hemorrhage. He is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.

♦️A memorable game by Jan Hein Donner👇
🔸Boris Spassky vs Jan Hein Donner
🔸Amsterdam IBM (1973), Amsterdam NED, rd 9, Jul-27
🔸Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B96)

♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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🔹 Boris Spassky - Jan Hein Donner, Amsterdam IBM (1973)
🔹 PGN format

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