🔹 12th World Teams Women
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Kaidanov,Gregory (2544)
⚫️Sethuraman,S.P (2673)
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33.c6? [Kaidanov should not have rushed to push the c-pawn. The preparatory moves were necessary in order to make the advance of the pawn.]

[33.Bd2! △Na5 33...Qe7 34.c6 Be5 35.Qd7=]

33...Rc2! 34.Qd7 [¹34.Na5!? Nc3 △Ne2 35.Bb2 Ne2+ 36.Kf1 Rxb2 37.Nb3 e3! 38.fxe3 Nc3 39.c7 Nxd1 40.c8Q Nxe3+ 41.Kg1 Qxc8 42.Qxc8+ Kg7 43.Nc5 Rxg2+ 44.Kh1 Rf2 45.Qc7+™ Kh6 46.h3 Re2-/+]

34...Qxd7 35.cxd7 Rc7 [△R×d7]

36.Bb2 Be7! [There's no need to rush to take the pawn.]

[36...Rxd7?! 37.Nc5! Re7 38.Bxf6 Nxf6 39.h3 Kf7 40.Rd6³]

37.Nd4 Kf7 [△R×d7]

38.f3 e3! 39.Bc1 Rxd7–+

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Pictured in Amsterdam on the final day of the traditional IBM Tournament, 15th July 1966 - grandmasters Arturo Pomar, Salo Flohr & Mikhail Botvinnik.

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“Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.”

🔸 Peter Weiss

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A first edition of Bronstein's famous work on the 1953 Candidates. When Bronstein was in Scotland in 1992 I managed to meet him, and he was kind enough to sign my copy of an English translation of the book.

Douglas Griffin

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"A Game of Chess". Etching by Jules Jacquet (1841-1913).

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Halfway through #SpringChessClassic tournaments. Six players share the lead in group A, while GM Bai Jinshi is 1.5 points ahead of the runner-ups in group B.

🔹 Spring Chess Classic 2019 A
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🔹 Spring Chess Classic 2019 B
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Alex Lenderman's win over Ni Hua helps USA beat China at World Teams 2019

Today marks 20 years since the death of legendary filmmaker and chess aficionado Stanley Kubrik, whose films reflect how he was inspired by chess:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/stanley-kubrick-inspired-by-chess