Magnus has said to NRK: ''World Number 1 spot is a part of his identity. It would be very sad to lose that spot.''
Also values the Number 1 spot higher than the WC title: "The World Championship is one tournament, while you have to show your strength throughout several years on the rankings. The fact that I have stayed Number 1 for 7 years, is a bigger achievement."
"It's the first time in a few years where people agree that it's the two best players in the world who face eachother. Nobody doubts that, so it means it's my toughest opponent so far. I have to be better than in my last match."
👆Magnus Carlsen plays against Arthur Abraham, German boxer and the former world champion.
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Indian chess grandmaster
❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday !! 👏👏👏👏
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Indian chess grandmaster
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC
🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Odessa 1989
#chess_history_tornaments
#Odesa_1989
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Odessa 1989
#chess_history_tornaments
#Odesa_1989
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@unitychess
🔷 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Odessa 1989
🔹 USSR
🔹 September 22 - October 16
🔹 CHAMPION: Rafael Vaganian|9/15 (+5 -2 =8) |
🔰 The 56th Soviet Chess Championship, held in the city of Odessa from September 22nd to October 16th, 1989, was a category XIII event.
Sixteen of the USSR's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin event, including (in order of ELO): 🔅🔅 Alexander Beliavsky (2620)
🔅 Sergey Dolmatov (2615)
🔅 Andrei Sokolov (2595)
🔅 Boris Gelfand (2590)
🔅 Rafael Vaganian (2585)
🔅 Alexey Dreev (2570)
🔅 Vladimir Tukmakov (2565)
🔅 Vereslav Eingorn (2560)
🔅 Vladimir Malaniuk (2560)
🔅 Lembit Oll (2550)
🔅 Yuri Balashov (2535)
🔅 Konstantin Lerner (2530)
🔅 Ilia Smirin (2530)
🔅 Semen Dvoirys (2520)
🔅 Konstantin Aseev (2485)
🔅 Giorgi Giorgadze (2470)
♦️ The Armenian grandmaster Vaganian took clear first, half of a point ahead of the four shared seconds.
♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "Odessa 1989 " Games database by PGN format👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Odessa_1989
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@unitychess
🔹 Odessa 1989
🔹 USSR
🔹 September 22 - October 16
🔹 CHAMPION: Rafael Vaganian|9/15 (+5 -2 =8) |
🔰 The 56th Soviet Chess Championship, held in the city of Odessa from September 22nd to October 16th, 1989, was a category XIII event.
Sixteen of the USSR's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin event, including (in order of ELO): 🔅🔅 Alexander Beliavsky (2620)
🔅 Sergey Dolmatov (2615)
🔅 Andrei Sokolov (2595)
🔅 Boris Gelfand (2590)
🔅 Rafael Vaganian (2585)
🔅 Alexey Dreev (2570)
🔅 Vladimir Tukmakov (2565)
🔅 Vereslav Eingorn (2560)
🔅 Vladimir Malaniuk (2560)
🔅 Lembit Oll (2550)
🔅 Yuri Balashov (2535)
🔅 Konstantin Lerner (2530)
🔅 Ilia Smirin (2530)
🔅 Semen Dvoirys (2520)
🔅 Konstantin Aseev (2485)
🔅 Giorgi Giorgadze (2470)
♦️ The Armenian grandmaster Vaganian took clear first, half of a point ahead of the four shared seconds.
♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "Odessa 1989 " Games database by PGN format👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Odessa_1989
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@unitychess