An exciting first day at Hamburg #FIDEGrandPrix with 4 decisive games.
GMs MVL, Topalov, Svidler, and Duda score a victory in the first of the two classical games.
GMs MVL, Topalov, Svidler, and Duda score a victory in the first of the two classical games.
Hamburg #GrandPrixFIDE, results of day 1:
🇫🇷 Vachier-Lagrave 1-0 Wei Yi 🇨🇳
🇺🇸 Nakamura 0-1 Topalov 🇧🇬
🇨🇿 Navara ½-½ Vitiugov 🇷🇺
🇵🇱 Wojtaszek ½-½ Grischuk 🇷🇺
🇦🇿 Radjabov ½-½ Dubov 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 Svidler 1-0 Harikrishna 🇮🇳
🇷🇺 Jakovenko ½-½ Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳
🇫🇷 Vachier-Lagrave 1-0 Wei Yi 🇨🇳
🇺🇸 Nakamura 0-1 Topalov 🇧🇬
🇨🇿 Navara ½-½ Vitiugov 🇷🇺
🇵🇱 Wojtaszek ½-½ Grischuk 🇷🇺
🇦🇿 Radjabov ½-½ Dubov 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 Svidler 1-0 Harikrishna 🇮🇳
🇷🇺 Jakovenko ½-½ Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳
Grand Chess Tour 2019 continues with the 6th tournament of the Series, Superbet Rapid & Blitz, that starts on November 6 in Bucharest.
10 players. 9 rounds of rapid. 18 rounds of blitz. $150,000 prize fund.
Details:https://grandchesstour.org/2019-grand-chess-tour/2019-Superbet-Rapid-Blitz
10 players. 9 rounds of rapid. 18 rounds of blitz. $150,000 prize fund.
Details:https://grandchesstour.org/2019-grand-chess-tour/2019-Superbet-Rapid-Blitz
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Of course, Boris Becker opened his ceremonial game against Fabiano Caruana at the start of the Grand Chess Tour's Superbet Rapid and Blitz tournament in Bucharest with 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5.
A photo taken at the time of the Groningen tournament, August-September 1946.
L to R: Isaac Boleslavsky, Salo Flohr, Mikhail Botvinnik, Aleksandr Kotov, Vasily Smyslov, Herman Steiner and (I think) Gavriil Veresov.
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L to R: Isaac Boleslavsky, Salo Flohr, Mikhail Botvinnik, Aleksandr Kotov, Vasily Smyslov, Herman Steiner and (I think) Gavriil Veresov.
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The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.
🔸 Garry Kasparov (2017) Deep Thinking
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🔸 Garry Kasparov (2017) Deep Thinking
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"The Match of the Century”: USSR versus the Rest of the World. Belgrade, March 29 – April 5, 1970.
This was probably the last time that Petrosian laughed before facing Bobby Fischer.
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This was probably the last time that Petrosian laughed before facing Bobby Fischer.
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Amsterdam IBM, 3rd August 1968. A draw is agreed after 83 moves in the final-round encounter between Aleksandr Kotov (USSR) and Lubomir Kavalek (ČSSR).
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Judit Polgar on growing up as part of her father Laszlo's groundbreaking educational experiment, the famous touch-move controversy when she played Garry Kasparov in 1994 and why no other woman in chess history has come close to her achievements.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/judit-polgar-interview-chess
https://www.chess.com/article/view/judit-polgar-interview-chess
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Judit Polgar Interview: 'I Had To Prove Myself More Than A Boy'
Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time, speaks to David Cox about growing up as part of her father Laszlo's groundbreaking educational experiment, the famous touch-move controversy when she played Garry Kasparov in 1994 and why no other…