♦️ Today is birthday of Loek van Wely!!
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Dutch chess grandmaster
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This photo captures a historic moment in the history of the World Youth Chess Festival—it was taken in 1990, the year that Judit Polgar became the first girl to win the open section of the competition. Pictured in the photo, from left to right are: Evelyn Moncayo Romero (Ecuador, winner of the Girls Under 10 competition), Judit Polgar (Hungary, winner of the “Boy’s” under 14), Nawrose Nur (United States, winner of the Boys Under 10 competition), Corina Peptan (Romania, winner of Girls Under 12 competition), Diana Darchia (Russia, winner of the Girls Under 14 competition), Boris Avrukh (Israel, winner of the Boys Under 12 competion), Tournament Director Carol Jarecki, and Tournament Organizer Donald Schultz.
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Eersel (Netherlands), 2nd March, 1969. The 2nd game of the Tal-Larsen match, held to determine 3rd place in the World Championship Candidates. The Dane won the contest by the score 5½:2½.
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Hungarian grandmaster Lajos Portisch in play at the IBM tournament, Amsterdam, 31st July 1967.
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In this photo, from Linares 1994, you can see the three Polgar sisters (their mother, Klara, is on the left), Kasparov, Topalov, Danailov...
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🏁✅ (2 Jul 1977) Chess champions Viktor Korchnoi and Lev Polugaevsky playing the first game of their world title semi final series in Evian, France.
Korchnoi won by the score 8½:4½.
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Korchnoi won by the score 8½:4½.
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▪️ Luděk Pachman
▪️ Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster
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▪️ Luděk Pachman
▪️ Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster
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#about_Pachman
▪️ Luděk Pachman
▪️ Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster
🔰 Luděk Pachman was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany.
🔘 Country: Czechoslovakia
🔺 West Germany
🔘 Born: May 11, 1924
🔺 Bělá pod Bezdězem (now Czech Republic)
🔘 Died: March 6, 2003
🔺 Passau, Germany
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 Peak rating: 2520 (January 1976)
🔰 Luděk Pachman was a Czech - German journalist and chess player who also played for Czechoslovakia. In 1954 he was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE . He has been chess champion of the Czech Republic seven times between 1946 and 1966 and won the West German Championship in 1978. .
Pachman won three Zonal tournaments and competed in six Interzonals, but never became a Candidate.
In 1959 he ended up in Mar del Plata with Miguel Najdorf in first place. He also played in the Chess Olympiad several times .
🔰 Pachman's first chess championship came in 1940, when he became champion of the nearby village of Cista (population 900). The first break in his chess career came in 1943, when he was invited to an international tournament in Prague. World Champion Alekhine dominated the event, with Keres taking second place. Pachman finished ninth in the nineteen-player tournament. Alekhine paid him a compliment in an article in the Frankfurter Zeitung and from the fifth round on, invited him every evening to analyze games and opening variations. "I don't have to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time", Pachman wrote.
♦️ A memorable game by Pachman which has won Fischer in a informative game!! In this game Bobby Fischer's kingside attack did't resulted him.
This game named "Pac Man" in chessgames.com site. 👇
🔸 Ludek Pachman vs Robert James Fischer
🔸 Santiago (1959), Santiago CHI, rd 6, Apr-28
🔸 Indian Game: Anti-Nimzo-Indian (E10)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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▪️ Luděk Pachman
▪️ Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster
🔰 Luděk Pachman was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany.
🔘 Country: Czechoslovakia
🔺 West Germany
🔘 Born: May 11, 1924
🔺 Bělá pod Bezdězem (now Czech Republic)
🔘 Died: March 6, 2003
🔺 Passau, Germany
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 Peak rating: 2520 (January 1976)
🔰 Luděk Pachman was a Czech - German journalist and chess player who also played for Czechoslovakia. In 1954 he was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE . He has been chess champion of the Czech Republic seven times between 1946 and 1966 and won the West German Championship in 1978. .
Pachman won three Zonal tournaments and competed in six Interzonals, but never became a Candidate.
In 1959 he ended up in Mar del Plata with Miguel Najdorf in first place. He also played in the Chess Olympiad several times .
🔰 Pachman's first chess championship came in 1940, when he became champion of the nearby village of Cista (population 900). The first break in his chess career came in 1943, when he was invited to an international tournament in Prague. World Champion Alekhine dominated the event, with Keres taking second place. Pachman finished ninth in the nineteen-player tournament. Alekhine paid him a compliment in an article in the Frankfurter Zeitung and from the fifth round on, invited him every evening to analyze games and opening variations. "I don't have to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time", Pachman wrote.
♦️ A memorable game by Pachman which has won Fischer in a informative game!! In this game Bobby Fischer's kingside attack did't resulted him.
This game named "Pac Man" in chessgames.com site. 👇
🔸 Ludek Pachman vs Robert James Fischer
🔸 Santiago (1959), Santiago CHI, rd 6, Apr-28
🔸 Indian Game: Anti-Nimzo-Indian (E10)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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@Pachman-Fischer 1959.pgn
749 B
▪️ Ludek Pachman - Robert James Fischer, Santiago 1959
▪️ PGN format
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▪️ PGN format
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18...Bc5?
A carelessness.
The correct move is 18...Qa5!
19.g4!
Pouya fully exploits the opportunity and obtains the Now the threat is 23.g5+!
22...g5 23.h4! Ke5 24.c3 f6 25.hxg5 fxg5 26.Qg6! 1-0
A)26...Rf8 27.Qg7+ Qf6 28.Qc7#
B)26...Rc8 27.Qg7+ Qf6 28.Re4+! K×e4 29.Q×f6 +-
A carelessness.
The correct move is 18...Qa5!
19.g4!
Pouya fully exploits the opportunity and obtains the Now the threat is 23.g5+!
22...g5 23.h4! Ke5 24.c3 f6 25.hxg5 fxg5 26.Qg6! 1-0
A)26...Rf8 27.Qg7+ Qf6 28.Qc7#
B)26...Rc8 27.Qg7+ Qf6 28.Re4+! K×e4 29.Q×f6 +-
57...Be8??
Parham throws away the win. Now White forces a draw by repetition of moves.
57...a3 -+
57...Ke4 -+
58.Rb1! Rc7
58...Ke4 59.Rf1 d4 60.Re1+ Kxf5 61.Rxe8 =
59.Rf1! Re7 1/2-1/2
Parham throws away the win. Now White forces a draw by repetition of moves.
57...a3 -+
57...Ke4 -+
58.Rb1! Rc7
58...Ke4 59.Rf1 d4 60.Re1+ Kxf5 61.Rxe8 =
59.Rf1! Re7 1/2-1/2
28.d5!
White opens the a1-h8 diagonal for the bishop on b2 and creates the dangerous threats against the opponent king.
28...exd5
The better defensive moves are 28...Bg5 or 28,,,Qf4.
But not 28...Bf8? on account of 29.Nxh6+! gxh6 30.Qg4+ Kh7 31.dxe6 +-
29.exd5 Bxd5 30.Nxh6+!
A winning tactical blow.
30...gxh6 31.Qg4+ Bg5 32.Qd4 f6 33.Qxd5+ Qf7 34.Qd3 +-
White opens the a1-h8 diagonal for the bishop on b2 and creates the dangerous threats against the opponent king.
28...exd5
The better defensive moves are 28...Bg5 or 28,,,Qf4.
But not 28...Bf8? on account of 29.Nxh6+! gxh6 30.Qg4+ Kh7 31.dxe6 +-
29.exd5 Bxd5 30.Nxh6+!
A winning tactical blow.
30...gxh6 31.Qg4+ Bg5 32.Qd4 f6 33.Qxd5+ Qf7 34.Qd3 +-