13.Nb5! [Seizing the initiative.]
[13.Rd1!? Bb4 14.Nb5 0–0 15.a3 Ne5 16.Kg2 Nxf3 17.Kxf3²; 13.Bf4!? Be7 14.a3 0–0 15.Rac1+/=]
13...Rc8 14.Bf4 e5 15.Bd2 e4 16.Bg2±
[13.Rd1!? Bb4 14.Nb5 0–0 15.a3 Ne5 16.Kg2 Nxf3 17.Kxf3²; 13.Bf4!? Be7 14.a3 0–0 15.Rac1+/=]
13...Rc8 14.Bf4 e5 15.Bd2 e4 16.Bg2±
42.Rg7+! [42.Ra7 Nf5 43.Bd2 Rc2 44.Bb4 Rc6=; 42.Rd7 Nf7 43.Be3 Rc2 44.Rd2 Rc4 45.Rd4 Ne5 46.f4 Rxd4 47.Bxd4 Nd7 48.g4 Kf7 49.f5 gxf5 50.gxf5 Ke7 51.Kg2 Kd6 52.Kf3 Kd5 53.Ke3 Kc4 54.Ke4 Nc5+ 55.Ke3 Nd7=]
42...Kh8 43.Rd7 Kg8 44.Rg7+ Kh8 45.Ra7 Kg8 46.g4! g5 47.Kg2 Rc8 48.Rxa6?! [48.Rg7+! Kh8 49.Rd7 Ne4 50.Re7 f5 (50...Nd6 51.Bg7+ Kg8 52.Bxf6+–) 51.f3 Nc3 52.gxf5 Nd5 53.Re5 Nf6 54.Re6 Nh5 55.Rxa6+–]
48...Nf7 49.Rxf6 Ra8 50.Rb6 Nxh6 51.Rxh6 Kg7 52.Rh5 Kg6 53.h4 h6 54.hxg5 hxg5
½–½
42...Kh8 43.Rd7 Kg8 44.Rg7+ Kh8 45.Ra7 Kg8 46.g4! g5 47.Kg2 Rc8 48.Rxa6?! [48.Rg7+! Kh8 49.Rd7 Ne4 50.Re7 f5 (50...Nd6 51.Bg7+ Kg8 52.Bxf6+–) 51.f3 Nc3 52.gxf5 Nd5 53.Re5 Nf6 54.Re6 Nh5 55.Rxa6+–]
48...Nf7 49.Rxf6 Ra8 50.Rb6 Nxh6 51.Rxh6 Kg7 52.Rh5 Kg6 53.h4 h6 54.hxg5 hxg5
½–½
Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 195
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C) Nb5 – 8
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Nikhil, Alexander, @Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Kasyap
A) Rac1
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B) R×d8
▫️ 0%
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C) Nb5 – 8
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Nikhil, Alexander, @Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Kasyap
A) Rac1
▫️ 0%
B) R×d8
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 195
public poll
B) Ne1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
Gavin, Nikhil, @FrozenBlade, Alexander, @A_Wild_Richard, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Kasyap
C) Ne5 – 1
👍 11%
@Sophia_Giraffe
A) Nd4
▫️ 0%
👥 9 people voted so far.
public poll
B) Ne1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
Gavin, Nikhil, @FrozenBlade, Alexander, @A_Wild_Richard, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Kasyap
C) Ne5 – 1
👍 11%
@Sophia_Giraffe
A) Nd4
▫️ 0%
👥 9 people voted so far.
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 19th USSR Chess Championship
🔹 Moscow 1951
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1951
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@unitychess
🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 19th USSR Chess Championship
🔹 Moscow 1951
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1951
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess
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✳️ Chess History - Tournaments
💢 19th USSR Chess Championship
💢 Moscow 1951
💢 November 11 – December 14
🔰 USSR Chess Championship (1948 ) - Moscow
CHAMPION: Paul Keres, 12/17 (+9 -2 =6)
✅ The 19th Soviet Chess Championship took place in the capital city of Moscow from November 11 to December 14, 1951. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's strongest players, including the reigning world champion, participated in the round robin event.
▪️ Fourteen of the players qualified from the semi-final tournaments played earlier in the year.
Nikolai Novotelnov, Isaac Lipnitsky, and Mark Taimanov qualified from Baku; Vasily Smyslov, Evgeny Terpugov, Oleg Moiseev, and Nikolai Kopilov qualified from Leningrad;
Lev Aronin, Vladimir Simagin, and Salomon Flohr qualified from Lvov;
Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller, Yuri Averbakh, and Isaac Boleslavsky qualified from Sverdlovsk.
▪️ Boleslavsky fell ill before the final and was therefore replaced by Igor Bondarevsky, who had placed fifth in the Leningrad semi-final.
▪️ Four invitations were also sent to Paul Keres as returning Soviet Champion, Mikhail Botvinnik as world champion, David Bronstein as world vice-champion, and Alexander Kotov.
✅ The assembled field was the strongest in the history of the USSR championship at that time, which makes it an especially impressive victory for Keres. It was his second consecutive Soviet crown and his third overall. He edged out runners-up Petrosian and Geller by half a point, and finished two full points ahead of world champion Botvinnik, who only managed to finish in fifth place.
✅ This tournament was also a World Championship Zonal qualifier. As a result, Geller, Petrosian, Averbakh and Taimanov qualified for the 1952 Stockholm Interzonal. Keres, Smyslov and Bronstein were already qualified for the 1953 Candidates, and Botvinnik, as World Champion, was not eligible.
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM / GRAEME.50WEBS.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Moscow 1951 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Moscow 1951 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1951
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess
💢 19th USSR Chess Championship
💢 Moscow 1951
💢 November 11 – December 14
🔰 USSR Chess Championship (1948 ) - Moscow
CHAMPION: Paul Keres, 12/17 (+9 -2 =6)
✅ The 19th Soviet Chess Championship took place in the capital city of Moscow from November 11 to December 14, 1951. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's strongest players, including the reigning world champion, participated in the round robin event.
▪️ Fourteen of the players qualified from the semi-final tournaments played earlier in the year.
Nikolai Novotelnov, Isaac Lipnitsky, and Mark Taimanov qualified from Baku; Vasily Smyslov, Evgeny Terpugov, Oleg Moiseev, and Nikolai Kopilov qualified from Leningrad;
Lev Aronin, Vladimir Simagin, and Salomon Flohr qualified from Lvov;
Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller, Yuri Averbakh, and Isaac Boleslavsky qualified from Sverdlovsk.
▪️ Boleslavsky fell ill before the final and was therefore replaced by Igor Bondarevsky, who had placed fifth in the Leningrad semi-final.
▪️ Four invitations were also sent to Paul Keres as returning Soviet Champion, Mikhail Botvinnik as world champion, David Bronstein as world vice-champion, and Alexander Kotov.
✅ The assembled field was the strongest in the history of the USSR championship at that time, which makes it an especially impressive victory for Keres. It was his second consecutive Soviet crown and his third overall. He edged out runners-up Petrosian and Geller by half a point, and finished two full points ahead of world champion Botvinnik, who only managed to finish in fifth place.
✅ This tournament was also a World Championship Zonal qualifier. As a result, Geller, Petrosian, Averbakh and Taimanov qualified for the 1952 Stockholm Interzonal. Keres, Smyslov and Bronstein were already qualified for the 1953 Candidates, and Botvinnik, as World Champion, was not eligible.
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM / GRAEME.50WEBS.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Moscow 1951 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Moscow 1951 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1951
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess
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“It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.”
🔸 Viswanathan Anand
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🔸 Viswanathan Anand
@UnityChess