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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🔸 Yuri Balashov - Vlastimil Jansa, World Senior 65+ 2017
🔸 PGN format
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Williams,Simon K (2457)
⚫️Vaibhav,Suri (2597)
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30.Rxg6!+– [A beautiful combination that finishes the game quickly.]

[30.Qb7!? Rb8 31.Qa7 Ra8 32.Qxd4 Qxd4 33.Bxd4 axb3 34.axb3 b4 35.Kb2+–]

30...hxg6 [30...Bxe5 31.fxe5 Qb4 32.Rgg1 bxc4 33.bxc4 a3 34.Ba1 Rb8 35.Kc2 Qa4+ 36.Kd2 Qb4+ 37.Ke2+–]

31.Nxg6+ Kh7 [31...Kg8 32.Rg1+–]

32.Qb7+! [32.Qb7+ Be7 (32...Kxg6 33.Rg1+ Kh5 34.Qh1+ Bh4 35.Rg5+ Kxh6 36.Qxh4#) 33.Qxe7+ Qxe7 34.Nxe7+–]

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🔴 Today is birthday of Radosław Wojtaszek
♦️ Polish chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birthday 🌺💐☘️💐🌸🌷

⚛️ Today is also birthday of:

💢 Ivan Sokolov, a Dutch chess grandmaster who won the 1988 Yugoslav Championship and in 1995 and 1998 the Dutch Championship. Before earning the GM title, he became a FIDE Master in 1985 and an International Master in 1986. In 1987 and 1993 he won the Vidmar Memorial.

💢 Enrico Paoli, an Italian International Master and honorific Grandmasrer who was Italian Champion in 1951, 1957 and 1968.
Paoli was also very keen on endgames and studies; his compositions are well known and he won 176 prizes (first, second or third) in contests organized all over the world.
In 1950 he played the international tournament in Venice where he won the brilliancy prize for a famous game he played against Soviet grandmaster Alexander Kotov.
▪️ Died: December 15, 2005, Italy
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Tbilisi, December 1978. The 46th USSR Championship final. In conversation, ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal and, at the chessboard, the 15-year-old debutant, and future World Champion Garry Kasparov.

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“The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions.”

🔸 Alexander Alekhine

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Portorož, Yugoslavia, 27th August 1958. In the 13th round of the FIDE Interzonal tournament, Soviet GM Tigran Petrosian faces the 15-year-old US Champion Bobby Fischer. On the left, the Yugoslav GM Svetozar Gligorić looks on.

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Candidates Match Spassky-Hort, 1977
https://goo.gl/SgqvDW

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Moscow, 28th March 1974. The 10-year-old Garry Kasparov is pictured on his way to defeating Soviet grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, in a simultaneous display with clocks given by the latter.

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