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🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Yerevan 1965

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🔷 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Yerevan 1965
🔹 Yerevan, Soviet Union (Armenia)
🔹 September 17 - October 6
🔹 CHAMPION: Viktor Korchnoi | 9.5/13 (+6 -0 =7) |


🔰 The USSR organized an international chess tournament in the city of Yerevan in 1965. Fourteen grandmasters and masters, including the world champion, were invited to compete in the round robin event. Eight participants represented the Soviet Union, including:
🔅 Tigran Petrosian
🔅 Yuri Averbakh
🔅 Viktor Korchnoi
🔅 Vladimir Liberzon
🔅 Eduard Mnatsakanian
🔅 Iivo Nei
🔅 Boris Shashin
🔅 Leonid Stein.
🔻 The remaining six seats went to non-Soviet players including:
🔅 Miroslav Filip from Czechoslovakia
🔅 Reinhart Fuchs from East Germany
🔅 Aleksander Matanovic from Yugoslavia
🔅 Lajos Portisch from Hungary
🔅 Lothar Schmid from West Germany
🔅 Gideon Stahlberg from Sweden.

🔰 Despite finishing undefeated with +4, Petrosian only managed shared second with Stein, while Korchnoi took clear first, a full point ahead, with +6 at the finish.

♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download " Yerevan 1965 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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♦️ Review our selectem game from Yerevan 1965👇

▪️ Viktor Korchnoi vs Boris S Shashin
▪️ Yerevan (1965), Yerevan URS, rd 9, Sep-29
▪️ English Opening: King's English Variation. Keres Defense (A21)
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▪️ Viktor Korchnoi - Boris S Shashin, Yerevan 1965
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🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 11
⚪️Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2768)
⚫️Bacrot,Etienne (2678)
🔸1-0

9.Qb1!
A multi-purpose move:
1- intending 10.Ng5 and if 10...g6, then 11.Nxh7!
2- provoking the weakening move h7-h6 and following that, pushing the g-pawn in order to g5 to open up the king's side.
3- protecting the Bd3 move, If need be.
9...h6 10.g4!
A scary kingside pawn storm.
10...Bb7 11.Rh3 Nd7 12.g5 h5 13.Bd3 Nb4 14.Bh7+ Kh8 15.Be4 Nd5 16.Ne2 f5 17.gxf6 N7xf6 18.Ng5 Nxe4 19.Qxe4 Bxg5 20.hxg5 Nf4 21.Qxb7 Nd3+ 22.Kf1 Nxb2 23.Rxh5+ Kg8 24.g6 1-0

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 11
⚪️Adams,Michael (2712)
⚫️Jumabayev,Rinat (2605)
🔸1-0

25... Bxc8?
Black should have continued with 25...Qxc8. Now, White grabs a pawn by a simple tactic.
26.Ndxe4! Nxe4 27.Qxd8 Rxd8 28.Nxe4 Bb7 29.Bb6 Rc8 30.a5 +-

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 11
⚪️Naiditsch,Arkadij (2721)
⚫️Roganovic,Milos (2527)
🔸1-0

57...Rh6??
This ending would have been a draw if the Serbian GM had found the correct solution.
57...Rg3+!
A) 58.Kc2 Rg2+ 59.Kd3 Rg3+ 60.Ke2 Ra3
A1) 61.Kf2 Ra5 =
A2) 61.Rxh2 Ra5 62.Rh1 Rxb5 63.Ra1 Rb8 =
B) 58. Kb4?? Rg4+ -+
58.Rxh2! Rxh2 59.a7 Rh8 60.b6 Rh6 61.a8=Q Rxb6+ 62.Kc4 Re6 63.Kd5 Re4 64.Qa6 Re7 65.Qc8 Kg6 66.Qg8+ Rg7 67.Qe6+ Kh5 68.Ke5 Rg2 69.Qe8+ 1-0

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 11
⚪️Firouzja,Alireza (2582)
⚫️Quparadze,Giga (2495)
🔸1-0

All things are ready for a decisive combination.
21.Rxh7+! Kxh7 22.Rh1+ Kg7 23.Qh4 Rf7 24.Qh8+ Kf8 25.Bxf7 Qxf7 26.Rh7 Qe6 27.Qg7+ Ke8 28.Nd6+ Qxd6 29.Qf7+ 1-0

⚪️#25 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Navara David (2740)
🔸Johnson Joshua (2261)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi