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The sad news of Milunka Lazarevic's death arrived last evening. A truly great chess player, well respected among her rivals, journalists and chess historian will be missed by her friends, colleagues and admirers.
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Archive footage of the final round of the 25th USSR Championship (Riga, 1958), and the decisive game between Boris Spassky and Mikhail Tal,
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🔴 #Galliamova
♦️ Alisa Galliamova
♦️ Russian Chess International Master
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♦️ Alisa Galliamova
♦️ Russian Chess International Master
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🔴 About Alisa Galliamova
♦️ Alisa Galliamova
♦️ Russian Chess International Master
📚 IM and WGM Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova won the World Girls Junior Championship (Under 20) in 1988 and has competed in Candidates and World Championship Tournaments since 1990 when she placed 4th in the Borzomi Candidates tournament. In 1994, she came fourth in the Tillburg Candidates and won the Groningen Candidates in 1997 ahead of Xie Jun. Her subsequent match with Xie Jun in 1999, which Galliamova lost, determined the new Women's World Champion when FIDE stripped Zsuzsa Polgar of the title.
📕 Galliamova became the 2006 World Women's Vice-Champion when she lost the final match of the FIDE Women's World Championship (2006) to Yuhua Xu. In 2012, she played in the FIDE Knock-out Women's World Championship (2012), defeating Ekaterina Kovalevskaya and Valentina Gunina in the early rounds before losing to French GM Marie Sebag in the third round.
📕 Other successes include winning the Women's Russian Championship in 1997, coming 7th in the Men's Russian Championship in 2000 and winning the 60th Russian Women's Superfinal (2010).
📗 She used to be married to Vassily Ivanchuk.
SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM
♦️ A memorable game by Alisa Galliamova
▪️Xie Jun vs Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova
▪️ Borzhomi UGEOO (1990), 01
▪️ Sicilian Defense: Boleslavsky. General Variation (B58)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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♦️ Alisa Galliamova
♦️ Russian Chess International Master
📚 IM and WGM Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova won the World Girls Junior Championship (Under 20) in 1988 and has competed in Candidates and World Championship Tournaments since 1990 when she placed 4th in the Borzomi Candidates tournament. In 1994, she came fourth in the Tillburg Candidates and won the Groningen Candidates in 1997 ahead of Xie Jun. Her subsequent match with Xie Jun in 1999, which Galliamova lost, determined the new Women's World Champion when FIDE stripped Zsuzsa Polgar of the title.
📕 Galliamova became the 2006 World Women's Vice-Champion when she lost the final match of the FIDE Women's World Championship (2006) to Yuhua Xu. In 2012, she played in the FIDE Knock-out Women's World Championship (2012), defeating Ekaterina Kovalevskaya and Valentina Gunina in the early rounds before losing to French GM Marie Sebag in the third round.
📕 Other successes include winning the Women's Russian Championship in 1997, coming 7th in the Men's Russian Championship in 2000 and winning the 60th Russian Women's Superfinal (2010).
📗 She used to be married to Vassily Ivanchuk.
SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM
♦️ A memorable game by Alisa Galliamova
▪️Xie Jun vs Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova
▪️ Borzhomi UGEOO (1990), 01
▪️ Sicilian Defense: Boleslavsky. General Variation (B58)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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@XieJun-Galliamova 1990.pgn
824 B
▪️Xie Jun - Alisa Galliamova, Borzhomi UGEOO 1990
▪️PGN format
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▪️PGN format
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC
🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 MOSCOW 1971
🔹 Alekhine Memorial Tournament
#chess_history_tornaments
#moscow1971
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 MOSCOW 1971
🔹 Alekhine Memorial Tournament
#chess_history_tornaments
#moscow1971
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
💢 MOSCOW 1971
💢 Alekhine Memorial Tournament
🔰 CHAMPION: Anatoly Karpov | 11/17 (+5 -0 =12) |
SHARED WITH : Leonid Stein |11/17 (+5 -0 =12) |
✅ The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring chess tournament, organized in different cities and irregular intervals, honoring the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.
The Alekhine Memorial tournaments have no numbering (technically it is not a series), sometimes it is thus unclear whether or not an event can be regarded as an Alekhine Memorial (as for instance at Moscow in 1959 and the following Moscow Central Chess Club International tournaments).
🔹 Immediately after Alekhine's death, Erich Eliskases won at Rio de Janeiro in 1946 the first Alekhine Memorial ever held.
✅ From November 24 - December 18, 1971 the Alekhine Memorial Tournament was held in the Soviet capital of Moscow, on the fifteen year anniversary of the first Alekhine Memorial. Eighteen of the world's strongest grandmasters, including the world champion, were invited to participate in the round robin event.
The participants were (in order of ELO):
▪️ Boris Spassky (2690)
▪️ Viktor Korchnoi (2670)
▪️ Tigran Petrosian (2640)
▪️ Vasily Smyslov (2620)
▪️ Mikhail Tal (2620)
▪️ Vlastimil Hort (2605)
▪️ Leonid Stein (2605)
▪️ David Bronstein (2590)
▪️ Yuri Balashov (2570)
▪️ Fridrik Olafsson (2570)
▪️ Vladimir Savon (2570)
▪️ Wolfgang Uhlmann (2570)
▪️ Vladimir Tukmakov (2565)
▪️ Anatoli Karpov (2540)
▪️ Florin Gheorghiu (2530)
▪️ Bruno Parma (2530)
▪️ Robert Byrne (2510)
▪️ Levente Lengyel (2485)
♦️ Twenty year old Anatoli Karpov and three time Soviet champion Leonid Stein tied for first place, each with 11/17. Both players overcame a field that included the current world champion as well as three previous world champions and various world challengers of the current and previous generations.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Moscow 1971 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Chess world Cup 2005 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#moscow1971
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💢 MOSCOW 1971
💢 Alekhine Memorial Tournament
🔰 CHAMPION: Anatoly Karpov | 11/17 (+5 -0 =12) |
SHARED WITH : Leonid Stein |11/17 (+5 -0 =12) |
✅ The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring chess tournament, organized in different cities and irregular intervals, honoring the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.
The Alekhine Memorial tournaments have no numbering (technically it is not a series), sometimes it is thus unclear whether or not an event can be regarded as an Alekhine Memorial (as for instance at Moscow in 1959 and the following Moscow Central Chess Club International tournaments).
🔹 Immediately after Alekhine's death, Erich Eliskases won at Rio de Janeiro in 1946 the first Alekhine Memorial ever held.
✅ From November 24 - December 18, 1971 the Alekhine Memorial Tournament was held in the Soviet capital of Moscow, on the fifteen year anniversary of the first Alekhine Memorial. Eighteen of the world's strongest grandmasters, including the world champion, were invited to participate in the round robin event.
The participants were (in order of ELO):
▪️ Boris Spassky (2690)
▪️ Viktor Korchnoi (2670)
▪️ Tigran Petrosian (2640)
▪️ Vasily Smyslov (2620)
▪️ Mikhail Tal (2620)
▪️ Vlastimil Hort (2605)
▪️ Leonid Stein (2605)
▪️ David Bronstein (2590)
▪️ Yuri Balashov (2570)
▪️ Fridrik Olafsson (2570)
▪️ Vladimir Savon (2570)
▪️ Wolfgang Uhlmann (2570)
▪️ Vladimir Tukmakov (2565)
▪️ Anatoli Karpov (2540)
▪️ Florin Gheorghiu (2530)
▪️ Bruno Parma (2530)
▪️ Robert Byrne (2510)
▪️ Levente Lengyel (2485)
♦️ Twenty year old Anatoli Karpov and three time Soviet champion Leonid Stein tied for first place, each with 11/17. Both players overcame a field that included the current world champion as well as three previous world champions and various world challengers of the current and previous generations.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Moscow 1971 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Chess world Cup 2005 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#moscow1971
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🔵 Review our selected game from Moscow 1971 Chess Tournament👇
🔸 Anatoly Karpov vs Vlastimil Hort
🔸 Moscow (1971), Moscow URS, rd 11, Dec-08
🔸 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation. Keres Attack (B81)
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🔸 Anatoly Karpov vs Vlastimil Hort
🔸 Moscow (1971), Moscow URS, rd 11, Dec-08
🔸 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation. Keres Attack (B81)
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Nakamura,Hikaru (2763)
⚫️Sundararajan,Kidambi (2445)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 2
⚪️Nakamura,Hikaru (2763)
⚫️Sundararajan,Kidambi (2445)
🔸1-0
28.f5! [Nakamura gains more space on the kingside and provokes his opponent to exchange the queens.]
28...Qg5 [28...Qf7 29.Rxe8! △Nfe4 29...Qxe8 30.Nfe4 △f6 30...Qe7 31.f6 Rxf6 32.Nxf6+ Qxf6 33.Nh5 Qg6 34.Nxg7 Qxg7 35.Qf4+–]
29.Qxg5! [A correct decision that gives White a clearly winning endgame. The pawn on g5 will soon be dropped.]
29...hxg5 30.Rxe8 [△Ne4]
30...Rxe8 [Clearing the e4–square for the white knights.]
31.Nge4 [31.Nfe4!? Be5 32.Nh5 Rd8 33.Nxg5 d3 34.Ne6 Rd7 35.b3 d2 36.Rd1 b5 37.cxb5 cxb5 38.Kf3 Ne7 39.Nhf4 Nc6 40.Nc5!+– △Nfe6]
31...Nb6 32.f6 Bf8 33.Nxg5 Re5 34.Nfe4 Nxc4 35.Rh7+–
28...Qg5 [28...Qf7 29.Rxe8! △Nfe4 29...Qxe8 30.Nfe4 △f6 30...Qe7 31.f6 Rxf6 32.Nxf6+ Qxf6 33.Nh5 Qg6 34.Nxg7 Qxg7 35.Qf4+–]
29.Qxg5! [A correct decision that gives White a clearly winning endgame. The pawn on g5 will soon be dropped.]
29...hxg5 30.Rxe8 [△Ne4]
30...Rxe8 [Clearing the e4–square for the white knights.]
31.Nge4 [31.Nfe4!? Be5 32.Nh5 Rd8 33.Nxg5 d3 34.Ne6 Rd7 35.b3 d2 36.Rd1 b5 37.cxb5 cxb5 38.Kf3 Ne7 39.Nhf4 Nc6 40.Nc5!+– △Nfe6]
31...Nb6 32.f6 Bf8 33.Nxg5 Re5 34.Nfe4 Nxc4 35.Rh7+–
[Black has a difficult task to win the game. He should accurately mobilize his pieces to launch an attack against the enemy king or put more pressure on his pawns.]
40...Qc6! [40...Nc5 41.a5 Rb5 42.Qf3 Nd7 43.g4 Ne5 44.Qe4 Nc6 45.a6 bxa6 46.Qd3 Kg7³; 40...Rd6 41.Qf3 Nc5 42.g4 Qd8 43.Re3 a5 44.g5 Qd7 45.Kg3 Rd3 46.f6 Kg8 47.b4 axb4 48.cxb4 Rxe3 49.Qxe3 Ne6 50.Qe4 Qxa4 51.Qxb7 Qb3+ 52.Kg4 Qd1+ 53.Kh3 Qf1+ 54.Kg4 Qe2+ 55.Kg3 Qe5+=/+]
41.Kh2 Nf6 42.Qf4 Qd5 [42...Qd6 43.Qxd6+ Rxd6 44.Kh3 Rd3 45.Re5 a6 46.Re2 Rf3 47.Re5 Rf2 48.g4 Rf3+ 49.Kg2 Nxg4 50.Re4 Rf2+ 51.Kg3 Nf6 52.Rb4 Rxf5 53.Rxb7 Ra5-/+]
43.Rd2 Qe4 44.Qh6+? [44.Qxe4 Nxe4 45.Re2 Nd6 46.g4 Rb3 47.h5 Nc4³]
44...Ke7 45.Qh8 Ng4+ 46.Kh3 Rd6 47.f6+ Nxf6 0–1
40...Qc6! [40...Nc5 41.a5 Rb5 42.Qf3 Nd7 43.g4 Ne5 44.Qe4 Nc6 45.a6 bxa6 46.Qd3 Kg7³; 40...Rd6 41.Qf3 Nc5 42.g4 Qd8 43.Re3 a5 44.g5 Qd7 45.Kg3 Rd3 46.f6 Kg8 47.b4 axb4 48.cxb4 Rxe3 49.Qxe3 Ne6 50.Qe4 Qxa4 51.Qxb7 Qb3+ 52.Kg4 Qd1+ 53.Kh3 Qf1+ 54.Kg4 Qe2+ 55.Kg3 Qe5+=/+]
41.Kh2 Nf6 42.Qf4 Qd5 [42...Qd6 43.Qxd6+ Rxd6 44.Kh3 Rd3 45.Re5 a6 46.Re2 Rf3 47.Re5 Rf2 48.g4 Rf3+ 49.Kg2 Nxg4 50.Re4 Rf2+ 51.Kg3 Nf6 52.Rb4 Rxf5 53.Rxb7 Ra5-/+]
43.Rd2 Qe4 44.Qh6+? [44.Qxe4 Nxe4 45.Re2 Nd6 46.g4 Rb3 47.h5 Nc4³]
44...Ke7 45.Qh8 Ng4+ 46.Kh3 Rd6 47.f6+ Nxf6 0–1