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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Los Angeles 1963

▪️In 1963 famous cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and his wife Jaqueline gave a cup through the Piatigorsky Foundation for a chess tournament that would include two grandmasters from the USSR and two grandmasters from the USA.
Four grandmasters from other countries filled out the playing list.

▪️ The final player line-up consisted of:
🔻 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔻 Paul Keres
🔻 Samuel Reshevsky
🔻 Pal Benko
🔻 Fridrik Olafsson
🔻 Svetozar Gligoric
🔻 Oscar Panno
🔻 Miguel Najdorf

▪️ The tournament ran from the 2nd of July to the 30th of July 1963 in Los Angeles, USA. The players met in a double round all-play-all and the joint winners Petrosian and Keres returned to the Soviet Union with more than half of the $10,000 prize fund offered by the Piatigorsky Foundation. This tournament was the strongest to be held in the USA after New York 1927.

💢 The main source for this collection was the First Piatigorsky Cup tournament book edited by Isaac Kashdan.
💢 The Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966) was the next tournament that contested this trophy.

✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download " Los Angeles 1963 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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🔘 Los Angeles 1963 Games Database
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✅ World top players in Los Angeles 1963

♦️ A memorable game from Los Angeles 1963
🔸 Paul Keres vs Pal Benko, Round 9

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"A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance."

🔸 Paul Keres

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Groningen, 13th August 1946. In the opening round, ex-World Champion Max Euwe (Netherlands) faces Abe Yanofsky (Canada).

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Max Euwe 🆚 Daniel Abraham Yanofsky

Groningen (1946), Groningen NED, rd 1, Aug-13
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Line (E40)

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Euwe vs. Yanofsky, Groningen 1946 | Endgame Exclam!! - GM Eric Hansen

Round 3 results and standings #SinquefieldCup

⚫️#276 (Strategy-ًBlack to Move)
🔸Sonis,Francesco (2499)
🔸Lodici,Lorenzo (2456)
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17...Nd4! [Centralizing the knight and putting pressure on the opponent's weak light squares.]

[17...Kh7!? 18.Nc3 Nd4 19.b5 f5 20.Nxd5 Bxd5 21.Be3 Bxg2 22.Kxg2 Qd5+ 23.f3 e4 24.dxe4 fxe4 25.Bxd4 exf3+ 26.Rxf3 Rxf3 27.exf3 Qxd4 28.Qxd4 Bxd4 29.Rd1 Bc5 30.Ra1 Kg7 31.f4 Kf7 32.Kf3 Ke6 33.Ke2 Bxa3 34.Rxa3 Kd5 35.Kd3 Kc5–+; 17...Qd7 18.e3 f5 19.Nc3 Ncxb4 20.Qe2 f4 21.Ncb5 Nc6 22.Rfc1 fxe3 23.fxe3 Kh7 24.Nc4 Rab8µ]

18.Nc3 Nxc3 19.Bxc3 Bb3 20.Qd2 Rc8 21.Rfc1 e4 22.Bxd4 [22.Bxe4 Rxc3 23.Rxc3 Nxe2+ 24.Qxe2 Bxc3–+]

22...Rxc1+ 23.Qxc1 Qxd4 24.Bxe4 Ba2 25.e3 Qe5 26.Nc4 Qe6 27.b5 Bxc4 28.Qxc4 Qxc4 29.dxc4 a3

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