⚪️#631 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Kasparov,G
🔸Linares, 1990

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 631
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C: Nb3 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
رضا, Gavin, Nikhil, @Sophia_Peng, Rachel, Zhenrui, Sanjana, Raymond

A: Ne2 – 2
👍👍 18%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @Toukennn

B: Rc1 – 1
👍 9%
@RichardPeng

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚪️#632 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Kochyev,A
🔸Lvov, 1978

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 632
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B: f4 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 87%
España 🇪🇸, رضا, @mahyarebrahimi1983, @Toukennn, Gavin, Nikhil, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, Yiyi, @AryanLeekha, Zhenrui, Sanjana, Raymond

A: Rfd1 – 1
👍 7%
Bahram

C: a3 – 1
👍 7%
Rachel

👥 15 people voted so far.

Results after Round 5

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Rd 5 at Sinquefield, all drawn by 3-fold repetition. Carlsen-So, drawn after 51 moves, Vachier_Lagrave-Caruana, drawn after 40 moves (R+2P vs R+2P endgame), Aronian-Anand, drawn in 36 moves ( B+3P vs B+3P endgame), and Karjakin-Grischuk, drawn in 40 moves (B+5P vs B+5P endgame).

Standings after Round 5

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🔹 6th Sinquefield Cup 2018 - Round 5
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✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Zagreb 1987

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#Zagreb_1987

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✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Zagreb Interzonal 1987

▪️Viktor Korchnoi, the veteran grandmaster and many times world challenger, now living in and playing for Switzerland, was the victor in the third and last of the interzonals, Aug. 1-23, at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Playing aggressive, superlative chess, Korchnoi fashioned a score of 11-6, a full point more than any other player could muster. The United States finally qualified a player from these interzonals into the next round of the world championship competition when Yasser Seirawan parlayed an elegant technique and a delicate touch to tie for second place with International Master Jaan Ehlvest of the Soviet Union. These three players will now join 11 others going into the candidates' matches scheduled for late January and early February in St. John, New Brunswick.

▪️The strength of the Zagreb interzonal tournament is obvious from the roster of grandmasters trailing: Predrag Nikolic of Yugoslavia, Jes'us Nogueiras of Cuba, and Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru, with 9 points; Eugenio Torre of the Philippines with 9; Jozsef Pinter of Hungary, Lev Polugayevsky and Vereslav Eingorn of the Soviet Union, and Yehuda Gruenfeld of Israel, with 8.

♦️Korchnoi's imaginative effort against Seirawan won the best-played-game prize!!

✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Zagreb 1987 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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✔️ Zagreb Interzonal 1987 Games Database
✔️ PGN format

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💠 #Korchnoi_chess_quotes_007

🔹Viktor Korchnoi
🔹Soviet-Swiss Chess Grandmaster and Writer

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💠 #about_Korchnoi

🔹 Viktor Korchnoi
🔹 Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster

🔰 Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.

🔘 Full name: Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
🔘 Country: Soviet Union (until 1976)
Switzerland (since 1994)
🔘 Born: 23 March 1931
Leningrad, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: 6 June 2016 (aged 85)
Wohlen, Switzerland
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1956)
🔘 Peak rating: 2695 (January 1979)

🔰Victor Korchnoi, a chess legend and probably the strongest vice-champion ever, was playing actively and successfully at the age of 78. However, this remarkable grandmaster is known not only for his chess masterpieces. His eccentric behaviour and poisonous insults towards his opponents have become famous not only among his colleagues. Victor was a fierce fighter, and one of the most bitter chess critics ever.

At one team event Korchnoi was playing against a young grandmaster. The guy sacrificed a rook, but failed to find the winning continuation, so the game ended in a draw. Many spectators have been watching, and in solemn silence came Korchnoi's proprietary remark: "You are the DUMBEST chess player I have ever seen!". The GM had to swallow his pride, become red like Santa, and walk away in a shock (btw, that's the typical behavior of Korchnoi's victims). A fellow well-known grandmaster came up to him and tried to reassure him: "It's all right, never mind".

Guess what happened during the next round?! This time Korchnoi was to play the young GM's savior. The game ended somehow (usually it doesn't matter), and Korchnoi has spat out something along the lines of "you haven't got a clue how to play chess!". A crowd has already gathered around the table, everyone was prepared to see a show. Korchnoi's opponent reacted instantly and with a smile: "Victor Lvovich, could you please...F... OFF!" Victor the Insulter was quite shocked, while everyone in the hall applauded and cheered!
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SOURCE: NATALIA POGONINA's WEBSITE


♦️ A memorable game by Korchnoi👇🏼
🔸Viktor Korchnoi vs Yasser Seirawan
🔸Zagreb Interzonal (1987), Zagreb CRO, rd 15, Aug-??
🔸English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Queen's Indian Formation (A15)
🔻🔻This game won the best-played-game prize of Zagreb Interzonal 1987!!

♦️ PGN format of this game is in:👇
"Zagreb Interzonal 1987 Games Database"👉| https://t.me/unitychess/11288 |
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London, November 1983. Four World Championship Candidates - Garry Kasparov, Viktor Korchnoi, Vasily Smyslov and Zoltan Ribli.

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soviet visuals Poster announcing 10-game chess match between the violinist David Oistrakh & the composer Sergey Prokofiev, November 1937.

https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-1937-prokofiev-oistrakh-match
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/prokofiev.html

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