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🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Bled 1931
🔹 August 23 - September 28
🔹 CHAMPION: Alexander Alekhine | 20.5/26 (+15 -0 =11)

🔰 Bled 1931 chess tournament was a major chess tournament proposed by Milan Vidmar and held in 1931 in Bled and Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His idea was well received in both Ljubljana (his birthplace) and the nearby health resort of Bled. An organizing committee was set up, and at the end of July 1931, following the 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague, this committee commissioned Hans Kmoch to conduct the negotiations with the competitors for a double round tournament to be held at Lake Bled.

🔰 José Raúl Capablanca could not be invited due to his disputes with world champion Alexander Alekhine. Noted master and writer Al Horowitz noted that Alekhine used his position as world champion to keep Capablanca out of the event. Akiba Rubinstein was invited, but was replaced by Stoltz because Rubinstein accepted the invitation too late.

🔰 Fourteen leading chess masters accepted their invitations. The players stayed at the Hotel Toplice and it was here that most of the tournament except Round 19 (held in Ljubljana) took place. Round one started in the large salon on August 23. Alekhine won decisively, not losing a single game and winning the tournament 5½ points ahead of Efim Bogoljubow. His gambit style was humiliating for the other players.

♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "Bled 1931 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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🔵 Bled 1931 Games Database
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🔵 Our selected game from Bled 1931

A short and 19 moves game from Bled 1931 which in that, Alekhine has won Nimzowitsch by a brilliancy and sacrificing pawns in the opening game.
This game named "Excuse My French" in chessgames.com site!!👇
🔹 Alexander Alekhine vs Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Bled (1931), Bled YUG, rd 6, Aug-30
🔹 French Defense: Winawer Variation (C15)

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♦️ PGN format file in Bled 1931 Games Database👆
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Chess Olympiad: Poland Beats Russia, Kramnik Gets Checkmated.

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🔹 43rd Olympiad 2018 - Round 4
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🔹 Olympiad Women 2018 - Round 4
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"It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts."

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik (1960). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”

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Boris Spassky playing at the Siegen Olympiad 1970, with the crowd in close proximity.

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🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2827)
⚫️Anand,Viswanathan (2771)
🔸1-0

20... gxf4??
A miscalculation by Anand that costs him the game.
20... Bxd4+ 21. Rxd4 Rad8 22. e5 Qc5 23. Rd1 Nh5 =
21. Bxe5! Qxe5 22. gxf4 Qc5+
22... Qc7 23. f5 Bh5 24. Qxh6 Qxh2+ 25. Kxh2 Ng4+ 26. Kg3 Nxh6 27. Rh1 +-
23. Kh1 Nxe4 24. Nxe4 Rxe4
24... Bxe4 25. Bxe4 Rxe4 26. Qg2+ +-
25. Rg3 Rd4 26. Qe3 1-0
If 26...Kh7 27.f5! B×f5 28.R×f5 Q×f5 29.Q×d4 +-

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Martinovic,Sasa (2567)
⚫️Bu,Xiangzhi (2712)
🔸0-1

37. Rc1??
27-year-old Croatian GM made a fatal blunder.
37. Re2!
A) 37...Rc6 38. Qh2 Rc2 39. Re1 Qg5 40. Qh3 Qf6 41. Re2 Qa6 42. b5 Qxa4 43. Rxc2 Qxc2 44. Kg1 =
B) 37... Qg3 38. Qe5! Qxe5 39. dxe5 Re6 40. Rc2 Re7 41.Rc8 = White has sufficient counter chances.
37... Qg3! 38. Qxg3+
38. Qc2 h3 39. gxh3 Qxe3 -+
38... hxg3 39. f3
39.Rc2 Kg6! 40. Kg1 Rxf2 41. Rxf2 gxf2+ 42. Kxf2 Kg5 43. Kg3 f5 44. b5 b6 45. Kf2 f4 -+
39... exf3 40. gxf3 Rxf3+ 41. Kg2 Rxe3 42. Rc7 Kg6 43. Rxb7 f5 44. Rxa7 f4 45. Kh3 Re2 46. Ra8 Kf7 47. Ra7+ Kf6 0-1

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Eljanov,Pavel (2703)
⚫️Flores,Diego (2621)
🔸0-1

30.Rxa6??
Eljanov did not manage to maintain equality in the endgame.
30.Rd1+!
A) 30...Bd4+ 31.Kf1 Kc6 32.Nc7 Bxc5 33.Nxa6 Rxb6 34.Nxc5 Kxc5 35.Rd7 and now:
A1) 35...Rb2 36.Rxe7 Rxh2 37.Kg1 Kd6 38.Rg7 Rh4 39.Kg2 Ke6 40.Kg3 Rh1 41.Kg2 Rh6 42.Ra7 =
A2) 35...Re6 36.Kf2=
B) 30...Kc6 31.Nc7 a5 32.Ne6 = with counterplay.
30...Bd4+ 31.Kg2 Bxc5 32.Ra7+ Kd6 33.Ra2 Be3 34.Rc2 Bxf4 35.h4 Be3 36.Rc8 Rb2+ 37.Kh1 Bxb6
0-1

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Tomczak,Jacek (2614)
⚫️Kramnik,Vladimir (2779)
🔸1-0

26... Rd5??
Kramnik's strange blunder. He should have prevented the white queen from penetrating to the h-file via the fourth rank.
26... Rd4! 27. Qf3 Rg6
A)28. Bf6 Qd2! The only way for black to get drawing chances.
A1) 29.Qxc6 Rd8 30. Kh1 Qe2 = with sufficient counter chances.
A2) 29. Qh5?? Rxg3+ 30. fxg3 Rc4+ and mate in 3 moves.
B) 28. Qh5 Rxg7=
27. Qb4 c5 28. Qh4 h6 29. Bxh6 Qb3 30. Bd2 Kxg7 31. Qh8+ Kg6 32. Qh7# 1-0

⚫️#17 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Rodrigue-Lemieux,Shawn (2250)
🔸Kwon,Sehyun (2129)
🔸57th World Juniors 2018

23...Bf6? [23...Ne6!! White missed this brilliant and of course hidden resource. 24.gxh5 Bxh5 25.Bb1 Nc5 26.Nf5 Ne4! 27.Nxh4 (27.Bxe4 dxe4 28.Nxh4 exf3–+) 27...Bxf3 (27...Nxd2? 28.Qxd2 Bxf3 29.Nxf3+–) 28.Nxf3 Qh5! 29.Qe2 (29.Bc2?? Qg4+ 30.Kf1 Rf8–+) 29...Nxd2 30.Qxd2 Qxf3µ White's exposed king gives black a large advantage, especially when the rook joins the attack.; 23...Nf6 24.Rh3 c5 25.Ne2 Nxg4 26.Rxh4²; 23...c5 24.gxh5 Bxh5 25.Qf1 Bxf3 26.Nxf3 Bf6 27.Bxd5 Nc6=]

24.Re3! Qf7 25.gxh5 Bxh5 26.Qf1 c5 27.Nf5 Nc6 28.Rh3? [28.Nd6 Qd7 29.Qh3 Bg4 30.Qg2 Qxd6 31.Qxg4±]

28...Bg4 29.Nd6 Qe6? [29...Qe7 30.Rg3 Rf8!! 31.Rxg4 (31.Qd3 Ne5 32.Qxd5 Bh4µ) 31...Bd4+ 32.cxd4 Rxf1+ 33.Kxf1 Qxd6µ]

30.Rg3 Rf8 31.Qg2 Be5 32.Rxg4 Qxd6 33.Qxd5 Qf6 34.Qg2 Nd4 35.Bd5 Nf5 36.Nc4 Bc7 37.Qf3 Qd8 38.Qe4 Re8 39.Qxf5 1–0