Forwarded from never lose hope
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Interview with Vachier-Lagrave and Yu | FIDE World Cup 2019 | Final. Game 2 |
Amsterdam, 15th July 1966. Grandmasters Salo Flohr & Mikhail Botvinnik face each other in the final round of the IBM tournament. This was the final competitive meeting of these legends & old rivals.
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"If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiosity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage."
🔸 Alexander Kotov
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Most visual records show the world's top chess players as ruthless solitary figures toiling away alone at the board, with their kinder side obscured. This 1967 photograph taken by the renowned Soviet photojournalist Yuriy Abramochkin shows Tigran Petrosian and his family at home.
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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 7
Teimour Radjabov beats Ding Liren to level the score in the final - all 128 players in the #FIDEWorldCup have now tasted defeat!
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Radjabov, Teimour - Ding, Liren
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FIDE World Cup 2019 round 7-3
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FIDE World Cup 2019 round 7-3
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Teimour Radjabov: "I was hoping that if he [Ding Liren] doesn't know about 22...c5!, then it becomes a little bit tricky for him." The Chinese spent 29 minutes on 22...Bf8, then drifted into a difficult position and eventually lost.