36.b4! [36.h4 b4 37.g5+ hxg5+ 38.hxg5+ Kg7 39.Ke5 Bf7 40.Kd4 bxa3 41.bxa3 Bg6 42.Ba4 Bf7 43.Kc5 Kg6 44.Kb5 Kxg5 45.Kxa5 c5 46.Bc2 Kf4 47.Kb5 c4 48.Kb4 Ke5 49.a4 Kd6 50.a5=; 36.Bd3 b4 37.h4 Bf7 38.Be4 c5 39.g5+ hxg5+ 40.hxg5+ Kg7 41.Ke5 c4 42.axb4 axb4 43.Kd4]

36...axb4 37.axb4 Ke6 38.Bd3 Bc6 39.h4 Be8 40.Ke4 Kd6 41.Kd4 c6 42.Be4 Bd7 43.g5 hxg5 44.hxg5 Be6 45.g6 [45.g6 Bg8 46.g7 Ke7 47.Bxc6 Kf6 48.Bd5 Bxd5 49.Kxd5 Kxg7 50.Kc6+–]

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Beverwijk, 1959
1st Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland);
2nd E. Eliskases (Argentina);
3rd J. Barendregt (Netherlands).

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"I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games."

🔸 Max Euwe

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Wijk aan Zee, 1983
1st U. Andersson (Sweden);
2nd Z. Ribli (Hungary);
3rd-4th W. Browne (USA), V. Hort (ČSSR).

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Chess Grandmaster, Maurice Ashley. 1986

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🔴 Today is birthday of Sergey Karjakin
♦️ Russian chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birthday 🌺💐☘️💐🌸🌷

⚛️ Today is also birthday of:

💢 Harika Dronavalli, an Indian chess grandmaster,born in Gorantla, who has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.

💢 Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster who during the 1960s and 1970s was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship, but never qualified for a competition for the actual title.

💢 Marat Dzhumaev, an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster and twice national champion, who played for Uzbekistan in the Chess Olympiads of 2000 and 2002, in the World Team Chess Championship of 2001 and in the Asian Team Chess Championships of 1999, 2003 and 2008.
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🔴LIVE TATA STEEL CHESS 2019 https://www.chess.com/tv

A family of (future) Grandmasters 😍

Ian Nepomniachtchi on his win against Anish Giri in round 1

Tata Steel Amateurs

In a round-one shocker, Anish Giri
resigns on move 26 with the White pieces against lan Nepomniachtchi. 😲

Vishy Anand on his win against Jorden van Foreest in round 1

Ding Liren on his draw against Magnus Carlsen in Round 1

Magnus Carlsen on his draw against Ding Liren in Round 1

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✳️ Vlastimil Jansa
♻️ Czech Chess Grandmaster
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✅ About Vlastimil Jansa

♻️ Vlastimil Jansa
♻️ Czech Chess Grandmaster

📚 Vlastimil Jansa is a chess grandmaster from the Czech Republic. He learned chess while in hospital at the age of eight and at fourteen, became the youth champion of Prague. In 1959, he finished second in the Czechoslovak national junior championship.
🔹 Full name: Vlastimil Jansa
🔹 Country: Czech Republic
🔹 Born: November 27, 1942
🔺 Prague, Czechoslovakia
🔹 Title: Grandmaster
🔹 FIDE rating: 2454 (January 2019)
🔹 Peak rating: 2540 (July 1975)

📚 A deep and original thinker, Jansa has been one of the Czech Republic's leading players for many years, collecting experience across a range of chess activities. Representing his country at the Chess Olympiads on a number of occasions, he won a team silver medal in 1982. He has also been a coach and a writer of books and theoretical articles.
A loyal servant of the Czechoslovak Chess Championship, he was the national champion in 1964, 1974 and 1984. Indeed, prior to the splitting into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, he finished in the top three on no fewer than fourteen occasions. Post-millennium, he remains actively engaged in playing chess and finished second, taking the silver medal at the 2006 World Senior Chess Championship in Arvier, behind only Viktor Korchnoi.
Vlastimil Jansa was awarded the International Master title in 1965 and became a Grandmaster in 1974.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

♦️ A memorable game by Vlastimil Jansa👇
🔸 Yuri Balashov vs Vlastimil Jansa
🔸 World Senior 65+ (2017), Acqui Terme ITA, rd 9, Nov-16
🔸 English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. Botvinnik System Reversed (A37)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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