“Weak points or holes in the opponent’s position must
be occupied by pieces not Pawns”

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch

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Fischer vs Spassky Second Piatigorsky cup 1966.
At this point Fischer was half a point behind and needed a win but the game ended in a draw and Spassky won first place, Fischer second and Larsen in third.

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Wang Hao realises too late that the pin of his knight is going to cost him the game and resigns, leaving Ganguly as the sole leader before tomorrow's last round of the Hunan Open - 1st place is worth $50,000!

Baadur Jobava is in a rush to get back to his normal rating territory!

The 21st Olympiad, Nice, June 1974. Soviet grandmaster Gennady Kuzmin analyses his game as ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal looks on.

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"A Passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes."

🔸 J. R. Capablanca

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Nice, 1974. The 21st Olympiad. Final Group 'A', Rd. 9 (played 24th June). On Board 3 of the Hungary v. USSR match, Mikhail Tal is pictured in play v. István Csom.

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Mickey Adams won his first British Chess Championship title in 1989, at just seventeen years old. Today, 30 years later, he achieved his 7th title British Chess 2019.

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Congratulations to Surya Sekhar Ganguly on taking the $50,000 top prize after a nervy final round of the Hunan International Open!
He scored 7/9 half a point above Yu Yangyi and Bassem Amin and took home $50.000 first prize.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/belt-and-road-hunan-2019/9/1/1