Chess Grandmaster Anish Giri took on three of Optiver’s best in a blindfolded chess simul

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Moscow #GrandPrixFIDE:
🇳🇱 Giri 2787
🇦🇿 Mamedyarov 2781
🇷🇺 Nepomniachtchi 2773
🇷🇺 Grischuk 2772
🇦🇲Aronian 2762
🇺🇸 Nakamura 2761
🇦🇿 Radjabov 2759
🇺🇸 So 2754
🇷🇺 Karjakin 2752
🇷🇺 Svidler 2739
🇨🇳 Wei 2736
🇷🇺 Vitiugov 2734
🇵🇱 Duda 2728
🇵🇱 Wojtaszek 2724
🇷🇺 Jakovenko 2708
🇷🇺 Dubov 2690

The race for the 2020 World Chess Championship begins May 17 in Moscow with the first tournament in the FIDE World Chess Grand Prix.
A 16-player knock-out event will be held in Central Chess Player's House.

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Moscow, 3rd December 1971. Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) is pictured in play against Levente Lengyel (Hungary) in the 7th round of the Alekhine Memorial tournament.

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"Many sacrifices do not require any concrete calculation at all... A glance at the resulting position is sufficient to realise the sacrifice is correct."

🔸 Mikhail Tal (as cited in Soltis, 2008, The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess)

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Did you know?
Keres was the only player who had an equal score against Fischer through the 1959 and 1962. candidates tournaments.
(+3 =2 -3).
In some ways they had similar styles and they rarely changed openings.

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The winner’s trophy of Côte d’Ivoire #GrandChessTour ♚🐘

⚪️#215 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Popov,Iv RUS (2590)
🔸Aliyev,Ravan (2351)
🔸Baku Open 2018

38.Rb1 [For obtaining an advantage, White should have simply grabbed the f4–pawn. 38.Qxf4! Nd7 39.Nf3 Nc5 40.Qf5 Nd3 41.Rd1 Nxf2 42.Rd2 Rxd2 43.Nxd2 Nd3 44.Qd7 Nc5 45.Qxc7±; 38.Rd1!? Nd7 39.Qxf4 Qe8 40.Qe3 Ne5 41.Qc3 Rb7 42.Nxe5 Qxe5 43.Qxe5 dxe5 44.Ke2 f6 45.Rc1 Bc5 46.f3 Kf7 47.Rc3 Ke7 48.Rb3+/=]

38...Qb7 39.Rxb2 Qxb2=

½–½

⚫️#215 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Kabanov,N (2450)
🔸Bocharov,D (2533)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

31...Rf8 [31...Be3+! 32.Kd1 Rf8 33.g4+ hxg4 34.Rg7 Bh6 35.Rh7 g3 36.Ke2 Bc1 37.Kf1 Rd8 38.Bh5 Rd2 39.Rg7 Rf2+ 40.Kg1 Rxb2 41.Rxg3 Rxa2 42.Rg2 Be3+ 43.Kf1 Ra1+ 44.Ke2 Bd2 45.Rg3 Ra2 46.Kd1 Bh6 47.Rg8 Rd2+ 48.Ke1 Rh2 49.Be2 Rxh4 50.Ra8 Rh1+ 51.Bf1 Kf4 52.Rxa5 Bg7 53.Ke2 Rh2+ 54.Kd1 Bxc3 55.Rc5µ; 31...e3?! 32.Rg5+ Kf6 33.Bxh5 e2 34.Bxe2 Be3+ 35.Kc2 Bxg5 36.hxg5+ Kxg5 37.a3 a4 38.Bd1 Kf6 39.c4 Rb3 40.Kb1 Rxg3 41.Bxa4 Ke5 42.c5 Kd5 43.c6 Kd6 44.Bb5 Kc7 45.a4 Rg2 46.Ka2 Rg3=]

32.Rg5+ Kf6 33.Bxh5 Be3+ 34.Kd1 Bxg5 35.hxg5+ Kxg5 36.Be2 Rd8+ 37.Ke1 e3 38.a4 Rd2 39.b4 axb4 40.cxb4 Ra2 41.Bc4 Rxa4 42.Ke2 Rxb4 43.Bd3 Kg4 44.Kxe3 Kxg3

½–½

🔸34th Voivoda Cup 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Kriebel,T (2515)
⚫️Murdzia,P (2411)
🔸1-0

26.bxc5! [Creating a protected passed pawn by force.]

26...Bxe1 [26...dxc5 27.Bxh4 Nxh4 28.Rf2 Qg7 29.d6 Kh8 30.Qd1! f3 31.g3 b5 32.Ne3 △Qc1 32...Rfd8 33.Kh1! Ng6 34.Nf5+–]

27.c6! [27.Rxe1? bxc5 28.Qd1 Rf6! 29.Rf2 Qg4=]

27...Qa7 28.Nxd6! [It is obvious that White's passed pawns are stronger than the opponent's extra piece.]

[28.Rxe1?? b5+!-/+]

28...b5+ 29.Kh1 Ba5 [29...Nh4 30.Rxe1! Nxf3 31.gxf3+–]

30.Nf5! [△d6]

30...Rxf5 31.exf5 Nh4 32.d6+! Qf7 33.c7 Rf8 34.Qxf7+ Kxf7 35.Rxb5+–

Congratulations to legendary Vassily Ivanchuk (2677) on winning the strong #CapablancaMemorial with 7/10 points.