The modern “knockout” began like that! Dnepropetrovsk, USSR Cup, 1970. The party of Vladimir Savon and Sergei Rosenberg is watched with interest by Mikhail Tal. And who won? The author of the short matches system is David Bronstein!

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"Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly..."

🔸 Jose Raul Capablanca

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26 years ago:
Larsen defeats Deep Blue!

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 5

FIDE World Cup Final starts peacefully. Match for the 3rd place also began with a draw.

"I prepared some line but actually before the game I just didn’t like it and decided to call it a day – just a normal day for me!" - Radjabov
The #FIDEWorldCup final matches didn't get off to the fastest of starts :)

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fide-world-cup-final-1-a-normal-day

🔸Tata Steel India Rapid 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Ganguly,S (2615)
⚫️Vidit,S (2702
🔸0-1

22.Rxc8? [Ganguly misses a golden opportunity to gain huge advantage.]

[22.Nb3! Clearing the d4–square for the bishop in order to attack the misplaced Black's queen. 22...axb4?? (22...Rxc1 23.Rxc1 Qa7 24.Nxa5+–) 23.Bd4! Rxc1 24.Rxc1 Qd6 25.Bc5 Qe5 26.Bxe7+–]

22...Bxc8 23.b5=

Michael Tal is usually considered in conjunction with Alexander Koblenz. But Valentin Kirillov was also quite often the second-champion of the ex-world champion. Many years later, he wrote a book of memoirs about his friend, which immediately became a rarity!

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"The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it."

🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch

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Spassky vs Korchnoi 1977 Candidates Final held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

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West German grandmaster Robert Hübner, pictured at the Tilburg Interpolis tournament, October 1986.

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 6

Ding Liren defeats Teimour Radjabov in game 2 of FIDE World Cup Final. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Yu Yangyi made a draw.