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Two kinds of chess: “real chess and women’s chess"! - Chess Daily News
In 1989 chess legend Garry Kasparov commented that there were two kinds of chess: “real chess and women’s chess"!
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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Future Champions of Europe
Among the various programs of the Global Chess Festival this year we are searching Future Champions from all over 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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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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✴️ #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
🔸 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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@Zukertort-Blackburne 1883.pgn
764 B
"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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🔸 Vladimir Kramnik
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#about_Philidor
✳️ 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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@unitychess
✳️ 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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@Philidor-Bruehl 1789.pgn
551 B
▪️ François André Philidor - John M Bruehl
▪️ London (1789)
🔸 PGN format
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▪️ London (1789)
🔸 PGN format
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22...Bf6 [22...e5! Although this move leaves Black with a weak pawn on the d5, he seizes the initiative due to his active pieces and bishop pair. 23.Nxe5 Nxe5 24.dxe5 Bxe5 25.Nf3 Bf6 26.Bb3 Kg7 27.Rfe1 (27.Bxd5 Bg4 28.Rfe1 Rh8 29.Qe4 Bf5 30.Qe2 Rh5 31.g3 Rbh8µ) 27...Rh8 28.Bxd5 Bg4 29.Qe4 Bf5 30.Qe2 Rbd8µ 31.Rad1 Qf4 32.Qe3 Qg4 33.Bb3 Qh5 34.Kf1 Qh1+ 35.Ke2 Qxg2 36.Rxd8 Rxd8 37.Rg1 Qh3 38.Nd4 Qh5+ 39.Qf3 Bd3+ 40.Ke1 Qxf3 41.Nxf3 b4 42.axb4 axb4 43.Nd4 Bxd4 44.cxd4 Rxd4µ; 22...Bf6 23.Nf3 Kg7 24.g4 Re8 25.Rfe1 b4 26.axb4 axb4 27.g5 Be7 28.b3 e5 29.bxc4 e4 30.cxd5 exd3 31.Bxd3 bxc3 32.Qe5+ Qxe5 33.dxe5 Rb2 34.d6 Bd8 35.Rac1 Bg4 36.Nh2 Be6 37.Re2 Bf5 38.Rxc3 Rxe2 39.Bxe2 Rxe5 40.Bd3 Rd5 41.Bxf5 gxf5 42.Nf3 Rxd6=]
23.Nf3 [23.Qg4? Nxb2 24.Nxb2 Qxc3 25.Rac1 Qxd4 (25...Qxb2?? 26.Bxg6 fxg6 27.Rxc8 Rbxc8 28.Qxe6+ Kg7 29.Qd7+ Kh6 30.Qh3+ Kxg5 31.f4#) 26.Qxd4 Bxd4 27.Nd3 Bf6³]
23...Kg7 24.Nfe5? [24.g3!=]
24...Rh8 25.Rfe1 Bd7 26.Nf4 Rh6-/+
0–1
23.Nf3 [23.Qg4? Nxb2 24.Nxb2 Qxc3 25.Rac1 Qxd4 (25...Qxb2?? 26.Bxg6 fxg6 27.Rxc8 Rbxc8 28.Qxe6+ Kg7 29.Qd7+ Kh6 30.Qh3+ Kxg5 31.f4#) 26.Qxd4 Bxd4 27.Nd3 Bf6³]
23...Kg7 24.Nfe5? [24.g3!=]
24...Rh8 25.Rfe1 Bd7 26.Nf4 Rh6-/+
0–1