✴️ Today is birthday of André Chéron
French chess Master

▪️ Born: September 25, 1895, Colombes, France
▪️ Died: September 12, 1980, Leysin, Switzerland
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7 Minutes Of Tension In Chess Olympiad's 1st Round.

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🔹 43rd Olympiad 2018
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🔹 Olympiad Women 2018
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The biggest upset of #BatumiChess2018 Round 1

Waiting for Ray Robson to wrap this up, John Donaldson, USA team captain and renowned chess historian, is reading "Chasing Darkness," a crime novel by Robert Crais.
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The 15th FIDE Olympiad at Varna (Bulgaria) 1962 round 5. In the front row, the USA-Israel match is in progress, on top board Bobby Fischer can be seen in play v. Izak Aloni.

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"Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists."

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik

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Capablanca at the age of 18 playing Brackett. New York, 20 December 1906.

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The Polgar sisters (Susan, Sofia, and Judith Polgar) 29th Women’s Chess Olympiad. Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 1990. For the second Olympiad in a row, the Hungarian team beat the Soviet Union.

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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC

✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Munich 1942

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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
🍀 Munich 1942
🍀 September 14-25
♻️ CHAMPION: Alexander Alekhine | 8.5/11 (+7 -1 =3)

🔰 European Individual Chess Championship 1942 was chess tournament purporting to be the first European Championship (Europameisterschaft). It was held in Munich, 14–25 September 1942, organised by Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund.

🔰 But given that players from Germany's enemies (Soviet Union, Great Britain and Poland) were unable to participate (because of World War II), and Jewish players barred (because of Nazi policy), this tournament was simply a manifestation of Nazi propaganda and has never received any form of official recognition as a championship.

🔰Reuben Fine commented in Chess Marches On (1945), page 136:
"Alekhine has participated in a number of European shindigs, including one so-called 'European Championship' ....his competitors were at best second-rate second-raters."

🔰 This last opinion is curious as Alekhine (World Champion), Keres (pretendent for the title), Bogoljubow (former World Champion challenger), Stoltz (winner, ahead of Alekhine, at Munich 1941), and Junge (co-winner, with Alekhine, at Prague 1942) made Munich 1942 the world's strongest tournament in 1942. The next-strongest tournaments were Salzburg 1942, New York (US Championship) 1942, Mar del Plata 1942, Prague (Duras Memorial) 1942, and Moscow (Championship) 1942.

🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Munich 1942 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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🔸 Munich 1942 Games Database
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✴️ Our selected game from Munich 1942 chess tournament: 👇

▪️ Alexander Alekhine vs Braslav Rabar
▪️ Munich (1942), Munich GER, rd 10, Sep-24
▪️ Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E02)

🔸 Review and download "Notes by Alekhine" PGN file👇
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🔸 Alexander Alekhine - Braslav Rabar, Munich 1942
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🔸 Notes by Alekhine
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🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Ssegwanyi,Arthur (2347)
⚫️Karjakin,Sergey (2760)
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10...Bxc3!
A clever positional exchange to create weaknesses in the resulting opponent's pawn structure and also his light squares.
11.bxc3 Ba6! 12.Bg5 Nbd7 13.Bxa6 Rxa6 14.Qb3 Qa8 15.Rfc1 Rc8 16.Qb2 h6 17.Be3 Ra4 18.h3 Qa6 19.Rc2 Ne4 -/+