"To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence."

🔸 Lajos Portisch

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The short footage of the moment when Botvinnik and Fischer game ended in a draw from the 1962 olympiad.
You can see Fischer is so exausted of him self and Botvinnik happy as he saved a draw in a lost position.

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FIDE World Cup semifinals started in Khanty-Mansiysk. Both matches began with draws.

Both games of #FIDEWorldCup semis ended in draws today in Khanty-Mansiysk.

(🇨🇳 2811) Ding Liren ½ - ½ Yu Yangyi (🇨🇳 2763)
(🇫🇷 2774) Vachier-Lagrave ½ - ½ Teimour Radjabov (🇦🇿 2758)

Tomorrow the players will switch the colors.

Interview with Radjabov and Vachier-Lagrave | FIDE World Cup 2019 | Semifinals. Game 1 |

Interview with Ding Liren and Yu Yangyi | FIDE World Cup 2019 | Semifinals. Game 1 |

How do chess players spend their free time? | FIDE World Cup 2019 |

IM Aryan Gholami from Iran won 2019 SCO International Chess Open with 7/9 and TPR of 2650. Zhu Jiner from China is runner-up with same score but inferior tie-break. Zhu Jiner got her 1st GM norm with TPR of 2657 and her live rating climbs to 2507, surpassing GM Tan Zhongyi.

Congrats to Teimour Radjabov (2758) on becoming the first finalist of the #FIDEWorldCup2019 and securing a place in the 2020 Candidates tournament. #FIDEWorldCup

Teimour Radjabov 🇦🇿 defeats Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 with White and becomes the first finalist of FIDE World Cup and qualifies to the FIDE Candidates 2020!

In a hopeless position Vachier-Lagrave blundered a rook and resigned on the 45th move.