Almost The Longest Game Ever Played At European Club Cup

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-european-club-cup-howell-harikrishna

Move of the Day!

Anish Giri 🆚 Wesley So 2019

38.Bd8+!

1-0

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

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1) Dubov-Duda, Hamburg #GrandPrixFIDE 2019 (analysis). Best move: 69.Rh2!!

2) Sasikiran-Rodshtein, #ECC2019. Best move: 46.Rh1!!

Gata Kamsky, in 1994. At some point, it looked like if he could put an end to the schism in the chess world in the most straightforward way: by winning both titles.

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 17

🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 2
⚪️Pacher,M (2453)
⚫️Aczel,G (2549)
🔸0-1

43...a4! [The only way to play for a win. Now White's king will be tied up by Black's passed a-pawn.]

[43...Ke6? 44.Kd4 Kxd6 45.Nc8+! Kc6 46.Na7+! Kb6 47.Nc8+ Kc6 48.Na7+ Kd6 49.Nc8+ Kd7 50.Kxc5 Kxc8 51.Kb5 Kd7 52.Kxa5 Kc6 53.Kb4 g6=]

44.Kd2?! [White could have put up more stubborn resistance with:]

[¹44.Kd4 a3! 45.Kc3 Ke6 46.d7 Ke7‡ 47.Kc2 h5! 48.Nd5+ Kxd7 49.gxh5 f5 50.Kb1 Kd6 51.Ka2 Ke5!µ]

44...Ke6 45.d7 Ke7 46.Kc2 Kd8 47.Kb2 g6! [Preparing to create another passed pawn.]

48.Nd5 f5 49.gxf5 gxf5 50.Ka3 Kxd7! 51.Kb4 Kd6 52.Ne3 [52.h4 h5‡ 53.Nf4 Ke5! 54.Nxh5 f4 55.Ka3 f3 56.Ng3 f2 57.h5 Kf4! 58.Nf1 Kg5 59.Ng3 Kg4 60.h6 Kxg3 61.h7 f1Q 62.h8Q Qxc4–+]

52...f4 53.Nf5+ Ke5! 54.Nxh6 f3–+

Leningrad, 1st November 1956. In the Chigorin Chess Club (Bolshaya Konyushennaya ul., 25), the opening round of the 23rd USSR Championship final is in progress.
Among the pairings: Averbakh-Spassky, Antoshin-Tal, Lisitsyn-Taimanov...

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