Halfway through the strong GAMMA #ReykjavikOpen with three players sharing the lead with 4.5/5 points.
Hilversum, 27th December 1959. Tigran Petrosian & Salo Flohr are pictured together with their wives. The Soviet grandmasters were in the Dutch town to give simultaneous displays.
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🔸 Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987) “Saving lost positions”
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🔸 Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987) “Saving lost positions”
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Congratulations to Alireza Firouzja on winning the Fischer Random tournament at the Reykjavik Open! Alireza scored 8 out of 9! http://chess-results.com/tnr414354.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&flag=30 … #ReykjavikOpen
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Can Alireza Firouzja match Wei Yi and become a 2700 player before his 16th birthday? He's getting close in the Reykjavik Open!
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/15-year-old-firouzja-on-fire-in-reykjavik
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/15-year-old-firouzja-on-fire-in-reykjavik
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15-year-old Firouzja on fire in Reykjavik
Iranian rising star Alireza Firouzja is threatening to match
Wei Yi’s feat of crossing 2700 before his 16th birthday, after reaching 2683.6 with
4.5/5 in the first half of the GAMMA Reykjavik Open. He went into the rest day
in joint first place with Armenian…
Wei Yi’s feat of crossing 2700 before his 16th birthday, after reaching 2683.6 with
4.5/5 in the first half of the GAMMA Reykjavik Open. He went into the rest day
in joint first place with Armenian…
31.Nf1! [Improving the position of the knight. Andersen moves his knight to e3 from where it controls d5 and f5 squares.]
[31.Nc4?! Nxc4! 32.Bxc4 R4d7 33.Bd5 Kg7 34.Rc7 b6+/=]
31...Rd3 32.Ba2 Na4? [This move makes White's task much easier. It was necessary for the black knight to stay on the b6 in order to control the center.]
[¹32...R3d7 33.Ne3! Bd5 33...Ke8 34.Bd5 Bd6 35.b4 Nxd5 36.Nxd5±]
33.Bd5! Rd4 34.Ne3 Nb6 35.Rc7‚ Rd7 36.Rxd7 Nxd7 37.Rc8+! [Rc7]
[31.Nc4?! Nxc4! 32.Bxc4 R4d7 33.Bd5 Kg7 34.Rc7 b6+/=]
31...Rd3 32.Ba2 Na4? [This move makes White's task much easier. It was necessary for the black knight to stay on the b6 in order to control the center.]
[¹32...R3d7 33.Ne3! Bd5 33...Ke8 34.Bd5 Bd6 35.b4 Nxd5 36.Nxd5±]
33.Bd5! Rd4 34.Ne3 Nb6 35.Rc7‚ Rd7 36.Rxd7 Nxd7 37.Rc8+! [Rc7]