Chartres: meeting with a young chess prodigy
https://youtu.be/BHZjo70eYOw

Some tactical puzzles from the the 2019 Polish Team Ekstraliga.

1. WGM Majdan vs WGM Bartel, 1-0

2. GM Bobras vs IM Czerwonski, 1-0

3. GM Nasuta vs IM Gumularz, white to mate in 7 or less

We have come a long way from there are two kinds of chess: “real chess and women’s chess"! Article about the US new #1 female
https://gamesmaven.io/chessdailynews/womens/two-kinds-of-chess-real-chess-and-women-s-chess-QGAjV1NfgEGHA4eBa4VZSQ/

You can still enter! If you were born in 2007 or later and you have a FIDE rating of 1800 or higher! Limited number of participants may enter the competition.

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https://www.globalchessfestival.com/budapest-2019/programs/future-champions-of-europe

#OnThisDay
German-Polish chess master Johannes Zukertort, the first-ever world championship match runner-up, was born on September 7, 1842.

One of the best players of the late 19th century, he lost to the first world chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz in the match in 1886.

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🔸 Johannes Zukertort
🔸 German-Polish chess master

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✴️ #about_Zukertort

🔸 Johannes Zukertort
🔸 German-Polish chess master

♦️ Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a leading German-Polish chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship; both were the world's best players.

🔘 Full name: Johannes Hermann Zukertort
🔘 Country: Congress Poland & German Empire & United Kingdom
🔘 Born: 7 September 1842
Lublin, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: 20 June 1888 (aged 45)
London, England

♦️Zukertort filled his relatively short life with a wide range of other achievements as a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist and political activist. He became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom in 1878.

Zukertort learned to play chess in Breslau when he was about 19. Entering a tournament in that city, and receiving the odds of the queen, he lost every game, whereupon he took up the study of Bilguer's Handbuch, with the result that in 1862 he won games from the leading German chess player Adolf Anderssen at the odds of a knight. Zukertort studied with Anderssen and within a very few years he became one of the strongest players in Germany.

Among many other notable matches that Zukertort played with Anderssen, he defeated him in 1866, lost in 1868 by a score of eight wins, three losses, one draw, and finally defeated him convincingly (5–2; no draws) in a match in 1871.[6][unreliable source][7] In 1867 he moved to Berlin and in 1872 to London. In that year, he played Wilhelm Steinitz in London, losing 9–3 (7 losses, 1 win, 4 draws).

♦️ A memorable game by Zukertort👇🏼
▪️ Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne
▪️ London (1883), London ENG, rd 22, Jun-11
▪️ Rubinstein Opening: Classical Defense (D05)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼

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🔸 Johannes Zukertort - Joseph Henry Blackburne , London (1883)
🔸 PGN format

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"I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation."

🔸 Vladimir Kramnik

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The best chess player of his time, François-André Danican Philidor was born on September 7, 1726.

Which keen player doesn't know his defense (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6) or the key "Philidor position" in the rook endgame?

✳️ André Danican Philidor
French chess master
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✳️ André Danican Philidor
French chess master

🔰 François-André Danican Philidor often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was one of those rare artists known widely for two professional pursuits: musical composition and chess. In the latter endeavor, he was regarded as the unofficial world champion for most of the 50 years he was active in the game.

In 1744 Philidor played two chess games blindfolded simultaneously in public in Paris, a feat never before known to have been accomplished. In 1749 his "Analysis of Chess" was published in London, the first chess book to explain the openings, the middlegame, and the general strategy of chess. The book claimed that Les pions sont l'ame du jeu, a phrase that became widely known as 'the pawns are the soul of chess', a maxim known to chessplayers ever since. His name is associated with the endgame commonly called the Philidor position, which is among the most important fundamental endgame positions. Philidor's name is also associated with a fundamental chess tactic commonly known as Philidor's Legacy, a smothered mating pattern involving a queen and knight. However this is only a traditional name, as the tactic first appeared in print by a book by Luis Ramirez de Lucena. Philidor passed away in London, England in 1795.

♦️ A memorable and very interest game by Philidor👇🏼
▪️ François André Philidor vs John M Bruehl
▪️ London (1789), London, England, Jan-26

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼

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▪️ François André Philidor - John M Bruehl
▪️ London (1789)
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We know François-André Danican Philidor (born September 7, 1726) as a great chess master, but he was also a serious composer and contributed to the early development of the opera comique (with spoken sections). His bust is placed on the facade of the Opera Garnier in Paris.

-Ernst Holm, 1916
White to move and win! 🤔

⚫️#284 (Strategy-ًBlack to Move)
🔸Brunello,M (2338)
🔸Zimina,O (2386)
🔸78th ch-ITA Women 2018