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💢 Today is birthday of Thomas Pähtz!!
Garman chess grandmaster

🌺 🌹🌷🌸💐☘️🌹 Happy birthday Thomas 👏👏👏👏
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During the 1960 "Botvinnik vs Tal" match in Moscow. The tickets to theater hall of more than 1000 seats had long been sold. For those who could not enter, a demonstration board was provided in Tverskoy Boulevard.

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Efim Geller & Mikhail Botvinnik, Wijk aan Zee 1969. They shared 1st place in the event that year.

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Wijk aan Zee, 1969. Geller-Keres; in the background, Portisch-Botvinnik.

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Paul Keres (USSR) v. Hans Ree (Netherlands), in the 15th and final round of the Hoogovens tournament at Wijk aan Zee, 1st February 1969. Keres won this game.

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🔘 Wijk aan Zee 1969
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Bent Larsen vs Milan Matulovic from Palma de Mallorca Interzonal 1970.

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46 years after Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky to become World Chess Champion, GM Zenón Franco takes a look at the match:

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William Lombardy: "With all due respect to Bobby, and I think Bobby *is* the greatest chess player in the world, but with all due respect I don't think he invented the game..." Never underestimate YouTube's potential to surprise you. https://bit.ly/2wD7sr7

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🔘 World Championship 1972 , Fischer - Spassky
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✳️ #Khalifman_chess_quotes_002

♻️ Alexander Khalifman
♻️ Russian chess grandmaster

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✳️ #about_Khalifman

♻️ Alexander Khalifman
♻️ Russian chess grandmaster

🔰 Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman is a top Russian chess grandmaster, renowned chess author and coach. He was FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999.

🔘Full name: Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman
🔘Country: Soviet Union, Russia
🔘Born: 18 January 1966 (age 52)
🔺Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔘Title: Grandmaster
🔘World Champion: 1999–2000 (FIDE)
🔘FIDE rating: 2617 (September 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2702 (October 2001)
🔘Peak ranking: No. 12 (January 2003)

🔰 Khalifman is of Jewish descent. When he was six years old, his father taught him chess.

Khalifman won the 1982 Soviet Union Youth Championship, the 1984 Soviet Union Youth Championship, the 1985 European Under-20 Championship in Groningen, the 1985 and 1987 Moscow championships, 1990 Groningen, 1993 Ter Apel, 1994 Chess Open of Eupen, 1995 Chess Open St. Petersburg, the Russian Championship in 1996, the Saint Petersburg Championship in 1996 and 1997, 1997 Chess Grand Master Tournament St. Petersburg, 1997 Aarhus, 1997 and 1998 Bad Wiessee, 2000 Hoogeveen.

Alexander Khalifman was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Chess Olympiads in 1992, 2000 and 2002, and at the 1997 World Team Chess Championship.

♦️ A memorable and short game by Khalifman👇
🔸Alexander Khalifman vs Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev
🔸Corus (2002), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 11, Jan-25
🔸French Defense: Rubinstein Variation. Blackburne Defense (C10)

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🔸 Alexander Khalifman - Evgeny Bareev, Wijk aan Zee 2002
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Dmitry Jakovenko leads Russian Championship Superfinal before last round. Girya, Goryachkina and Pogonina head the women's event.

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