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1st Laptop 2nd: Tablet 3rd: Kindle
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Best under 600: $100 in book prizes
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🔺🔺 All prizes are 100% guaranteed! 🔺🔺
🔹 ROUNDS SCHEDULE:
Round 1: 9-11 am
Round 2: 11:10-1:10 pm
Round 3: 1:40- 3:40 pm
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Round 5: 6-8 pm
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🔹No playing up is allowed in any section.
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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Hastings 1895
#chess_history_tornaments
#Hastings_1895
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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Hastings 1895
#chess_history_tornaments
#Hastings_1895
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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Hastings 1895
🔰The chess club in the English town of Hastings was founded in 1882. In 1895 the club organized a tournament that was the strongest ever held up to that time. Taking place over the month of August all the leading players of the day participated.
🔰 The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted in Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2, 1895.
Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred.[1][2] All of the top players of the generation competed. It was one of the first times such a "super-tournament" was conducted.
🔰 Harry Nelson Pillsbury won the tournament against a strong competitive group. Pillsbury, a young American unknown in Europe, was the surprise winner with 16½ out of 21 points – ahead of Mikhail Chigorin (16) and world champion Emanuel Lasker (15½). Following the success of the event, the Hastings tournament would become an annual feature.
🔰The organizers and players produced a Book of the Tournament, in which the participants annotated their own games. Like the Tournament, the Book too became an annual feature and was of very high instructional value.
♦️The game Steinitz versus von Bardeleben in round 10 won the first brilliancy prize in this tournament!!
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Hastings 1895 Games Database" by PGN format👇
#chess_history_tornaments
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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Hastings 1895
🔰The chess club in the English town of Hastings was founded in 1882. In 1895 the club organized a tournament that was the strongest ever held up to that time. Taking place over the month of August all the leading players of the day participated.
🔰 The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted in Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2, 1895.
Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred.[1][2] All of the top players of the generation competed. It was one of the first times such a "super-tournament" was conducted.
🔰 Harry Nelson Pillsbury won the tournament against a strong competitive group. Pillsbury, a young American unknown in Europe, was the surprise winner with 16½ out of 21 points – ahead of Mikhail Chigorin (16) and world champion Emanuel Lasker (15½). Following the success of the event, the Hastings tournament would become an annual feature.
🔰The organizers and players produced a Book of the Tournament, in which the participants annotated their own games. Like the Tournament, the Book too became an annual feature and was of very high instructional value.
♦️The game Steinitz versus von Bardeleben in round 10 won the first brilliancy prize in this tournament!!
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Hastings 1895 Games Database" by PGN format👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Hastings_1895
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▪️Wilhelm Steinitz vs Curt von Bardeleben
▪️Hastings (1895) Round 10
▪️Italian Game (C54)
🔸 Position after 21 ... Ke8
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▪️Hastings (1895) Round 10
▪️Italian Game (C54)
🔸 Position after 21 ... Ke8
♦️Read more and review it👇
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🔸Hastings (1895) Round 10
🔸Wilhelm Steinitz vs Curt von Bardeleben
🔰 This game won the first brilliancy prize in Hastings 1895 super tournament!!
In round ten, the position on the above arose after a Giuoco Piano: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.0-0 Be6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Bxd5! Bxd5 12.Nxd5 Qxd5 13.Bxe7 Nxe7 14.Re1 f6 15.Qe2 Qd7 16.Rac1 c6?! 17.d5! cxd5 18.Nd4 Kf7 19.Ne6 Rhc8 20.Qg4 g6 21.Ng5+ Ke8.
🔰At this point Steinitz played one of the most famous moves in history:
22.Rxe7+!!.
Black cannot capture the white rook (22...Qxe7 23.Rxc8+ Rxc8 24.Qxc8+ Qd8 25.Qxd8+, etc. and White wins with his extra piece, while 22...Kxe7 23.Re1+ Kd6 24.Qb4+ Rc5 25.Re6+! wins as well (the often mentioned 25.Ne6 doesn't amount to much for example 25....Rc8 26.Qf4+ Kc6 27.Qa4+ Kd6), however, White's replies are also limited because Black is threatening mate with Rxc1, as well as threatening to capture White's queen and knight. As a result, Steinitz's rook now "thumbs its nose" at the black king, so to speak: repeatedly checking right in front of the king, which cannot capture it, in order to prevent Rxc1.
♦️The game continued 22...Kf8 23.Rf7+ Kg8 24.Rg7+ Kh8 25.Rxh7+!!
And Black resigned 😧😧
This crucial move eliminates the h-pawn and allows White to bring in his queen to attack without ever allowing Black to play Rxc1 and mate. Bowing to the inevitable (or perhaps frustrated that even with mate in one, he could not capitalize), von Bardeleben simply left the tournament hall, letting his time run out. Steinitz demonstrated for the spectators how the game might have continued:
25...Kg8 26.Rg7+ Kh8 27.Qh4+ Kxg7 28.Qh7+ Kf8 29.Qh8+ Ke7 30.Qg7+ Ke8 31.Qg8+ Ke7 32.Qf7+ Kd8 33.Qf8+ Qe8 34.Nf7+ Kd7 35.Qd6#
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🔸Hastings (1895) Round 10
🔸Wilhelm Steinitz vs Curt von Bardeleben
🔰 This game won the first brilliancy prize in Hastings 1895 super tournament!!
In round ten, the position on the above arose after a Giuoco Piano: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.0-0 Be6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Bxd5! Bxd5 12.Nxd5 Qxd5 13.Bxe7 Nxe7 14.Re1 f6 15.Qe2 Qd7 16.Rac1 c6?! 17.d5! cxd5 18.Nd4 Kf7 19.Ne6 Rhc8 20.Qg4 g6 21.Ng5+ Ke8.
🔰At this point Steinitz played one of the most famous moves in history:
22.Rxe7+!!.
Black cannot capture the white rook (22...Qxe7 23.Rxc8+ Rxc8 24.Qxc8+ Qd8 25.Qxd8+, etc. and White wins with his extra piece, while 22...Kxe7 23.Re1+ Kd6 24.Qb4+ Rc5 25.Re6+! wins as well (the often mentioned 25.Ne6 doesn't amount to much for example 25....Rc8 26.Qf4+ Kc6 27.Qa4+ Kd6), however, White's replies are also limited because Black is threatening mate with Rxc1, as well as threatening to capture White's queen and knight. As a result, Steinitz's rook now "thumbs its nose" at the black king, so to speak: repeatedly checking right in front of the king, which cannot capture it, in order to prevent Rxc1.
♦️The game continued 22...Kf8 23.Rf7+ Kg8 24.Rg7+ Kh8 25.Rxh7+!!
And Black resigned 😧😧
This crucial move eliminates the h-pawn and allows White to bring in his queen to attack without ever allowing Black to play Rxc1 and mate. Bowing to the inevitable (or perhaps frustrated that even with mate in one, he could not capitalize), von Bardeleben simply left the tournament hall, letting his time run out. Steinitz demonstrated for the spectators how the game might have continued:
25...Kg8 26.Rg7+ Kh8 27.Qh4+ Kxg7 28.Qh7+ Kf8 29.Qh8+ Ke7 30.Qg7+ Ke8 31.Qg8+ Ke7 32.Qf7+ Kd8 33.Qf8+ Qe8 34.Nf7+ Kd7 35.Qd6#
🔰 This excellent game named "The Battle of Hastings" in chessgames.com site!!
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@Steinitz-VonBardeleben 1895.pgn
915 B
🔸Wilhelm Steinitz - Curt von Bardeleben,Hastings (1895)
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33... Ne3?
Black does not need to be in a hurry because his opponent has no counterplay. He should first have consolidated his position with Qc3, Bd4 and Kh8.
34.Rc1 Kh8 35. Kh1 Bxa3 36. Re1 Nc4??
The final blunder.
36... Bf8 =
37. Rd1 Na5 38. Qf7 1-0
Black does not need to be in a hurry because his opponent has no counterplay. He should first have consolidated his position with Qc3, Bd4 and Kh8.
34.Rc1 Kh8 35. Kh1 Bxa3 36. Re1 Nc4??
The final blunder.
36... Bf8 =
37. Rd1 Na5 38. Qf7 1-0
26... e5??
Georgian International master loses two pawns for nothing.
26... Nf6 is the logical continuation.
27. Nxe4 dxe4 28. fxe5 Qc4 29. Rxe4 Rb1 30. Ref4 +-
Georgian International master loses two pawns for nothing.
26... Nf6 is the logical continuation.
27. Nxe4 dxe4 28. fxe5 Qc4 29. Rxe4 Rb1 30. Ref4 +-
10... Qe7
Black's standard plan is: ...Nd7-f8, ...h7-h5-h4(-h3 if possible); alternatively ...Bc8-g4 with the pawn on h5; ...Nf8-h7-g5 etc. with a kingside attack. Meanwhile, White creates counterplay on the queenside and in the centre.
11. b4 Nf8 12. Bb2 h5 13. Rac1 Bf5 14. Nb3
A logical plan after ...Bc8-f5: d4-d5 and Nb3-d4. Actually, White's position turns out to be quite pleasant, which means that Black should look into this system more carefully.
14...N8h7 15. d5 Ng5 Nd4 Bg4 17. c5 dxc5 18. bxc5 Qxc5 19. Qb3 Qb6 20. Ncb5 Grischuk-Caruana ½-½ Paris Fide 2013
Black's standard plan is: ...Nd7-f8, ...h7-h5-h4(-h3 if possible); alternatively ...Bc8-g4 with the pawn on h5; ...Nf8-h7-g5 etc. with a kingside attack. Meanwhile, White creates counterplay on the queenside and in the centre.
11. b4 Nf8 12. Bb2 h5 13. Rac1 Bf5 14. Nb3
A logical plan after ...Bc8-f5: d4-d5 and Nb3-d4. Actually, White's position turns out to be quite pleasant, which means that Black should look into this system more carefully.
14...N8h7 15. d5 Ng5 Nd4 Bg4 17. c5 dxc5 18. bxc5 Qxc5 19. Qb3 Qb6 20. Ncb5 Grischuk-Caruana ½-½ Paris Fide 2013
85. Nxh5??
White must stop the king from penetrating:
85. Ke4! Kc5 86. Nd3+ Kc4 87. Nf4 Ra3 88.Ne2 =
85... Kd3 86.Nf4+ Kd2 87. h5 Rb4 0-1
White must stop the king from penetrating:
85. Ke4! Kc5 86. Nd3+ Kc4 87. Nf4 Ra3 88.Ne2 =
85... Kd3 86.Nf4+ Kd2 87. h5 Rb4 0-1
15...Nb8!
Heading to b4 via c6. The knight on d7 is clearly misplaced. With 15 h4 White intends to start an attack on the kingside, but the game shows that this plan was unworkable.
16.h5 h6 17.dxc5?!
White opens the long diagonal for his bishop with the hope of bringing his knight to f6 in an attack. The serious drawback to this plan is that the b3-pawn becomes weak.
17...bxc5 18.Nh2 Nc6 19.Ng4
In this position, White's plan is Nf1 and to bring his rook into play along the third rank, with the idea of swinging it over to the kingside to support a kingside attack. The correct move, therefore, is:
19...Rab8!=/+
Black activates his rook and prevents White from going about his plan because the b3-pawn would hang.
Heading to b4 via c6. The knight on d7 is clearly misplaced. With 15 h4 White intends to start an attack on the kingside, but the game shows that this plan was unworkable.
16.h5 h6 17.dxc5?!
White opens the long diagonal for his bishop with the hope of bringing his knight to f6 in an attack. The serious drawback to this plan is that the b3-pawn becomes weak.
17...bxc5 18.Nh2 Nc6 19.Ng4
In this position, White's plan is Nf1 and to bring his rook into play along the third rank, with the idea of swinging it over to the kingside to support a kingside attack. The correct move, therefore, is:
19...Rab8!=/+
Black activates his rook and prevents White from going about his plan because the b3-pawn would hang.