Pia Cramling (Sweden) Competing at the 1984 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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Pia Cramling won the individual gold medal on Board One in the 1984 Thessaloniki, Greece, Women’s Chess Olympiad. Like her contemporary, Judit Polgar, Cramling would later begin to represent her country in the open section of the Chess Olympiads (1990, 1992, 1996, and 2000).

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U.S. Team Competes against the Soviet Team at the 1988 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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GM Yasser Seirawan vs. GM Garry Kasparov as GM Anatoly Karpov Watches at the 1988 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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♦️ Today is birthday of Ye Rongguang!!
The first Chinese chess grandmaster

❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday Dear Master Rongguang 👏👏👏👏
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC

🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Moscow 1940

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🔷 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Moscow 1940 (12th Soviet Chess Championship)
🔹 September 5 - October 3
🔹 CHAMPION: Igor Bondarevsky | 13½/19 (+10−2=7) |
Shared with: Andor Lilienthal | 13½/19 (+8−0=11) |

🔰 The 12th Soviet Chess Championship was played in the capital city of Moscow from September 5 to October 3, 1940. Twenty of the Soviet Union's strongest masters competed in the round robin event, six of whom qualified from the semi-final tournament in Kiev earlier in the year:
🔅 Eduard Gerstenfeld
🔅 Mark Stolberg
🔅 Igor Bondarevsky
🔅 Iosif Rudakovsky
🔅 Alexander Konstantinopolsky
🔅 Peter Dubinin
The remaining invitations went to the elite of Soviet chess (new and old), including:
🔅 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔅 Vasily Smyslov
🔅 Paul Keres
🔅 Isaac Boleslavsky
🔅 Alexander Kotov
🔅 Viacheslav Ragozin
🔅 Andre Lilienthal
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♦️Mikhail Botvinnik won the Absolute Championship:👇
23 Mar–29 Apr 1941, Leningrad/Moscow, 13½/20 (+9−2=9)
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🔰In Moscow 1940 Lilienthal and Bondarevsky finished equal first with 13½/19. For both victors, considering the strength of the assembled field, it was the greatest performance of their careers.

♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "Moscow 1940 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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▪️ Moscow 1940 Games Database
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♦️ Review our selected game from Moscow 1940👇

🔸 Peter Vasilievich Dubinin vs Igor Bondarevsky
🔸 USSR Championship (1940), Moscow URS, rd 7, Sep-13
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense. General (D58)
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Poland's takedown of the USA is good news for the chasing pack...

with Armenia, China, England (and the US) just a point behind the leaders, and Russia, France, Croatia and Germany 2 points back & still in the fight for #BatumiChess2018 medals with 2 rounds to go!

Armenia's young talent Haik Martirosyan defeats GM Krishnan Sasikiran to bring his team a victory against India.
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A fantastic Olympiad for 20-year-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda on the top board of the Polish team.
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He drew with super stars such as Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Aronian and then drew with Caruana, the world title challenger, to secure the overall lead for Poland.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/olympiad-batumi-2018-open/9/1/1

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🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2827)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2820)
🔸1-0