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Fide: Happy 50th Birthday to Viswanathan Anand, the living legend of chess! 🎉

On this special day, we want to take you through the highlights of his unprecedented life in this video.

Many happy returns of the day, the Tiger of Madras!

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The seventh round of the Women’s Grand Prix in Monaco again produces five decisive results. The finish promises to be enthralling…

The seventh round of the Women’s Grand Prix in Monaco again produces five decisive results. The finish promises to be enthralling at the Yacht Club.

https://wgp2019.fide.com/tpost/k8x7lo9h6x-the-seventh-round-of-the-womens-grand-pr

Fide

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Aleksandra Goryachkina and Humpy Koneru both won their games at FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Monaco and lead the event with 5 points after 7 games.

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Susan Polgar: Which of these very talented top juniors (20 and under) have the best chance of becoming future World Champions? Wei Yi, Firouzja, Xiong, Maghsoodloo, Praggnanandhaa, Nihal Sarin...? 👑♟🏆

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Unity Chess Club via @vote

Which of these very talented top juniors (20 and under) have the best chance of becoming future World Champions? 👑♟🏆
anonymous poll

Firouzja 🇮🇷 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%

Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳 – 4
👍👍 18%

Xiong 🇺🇸 – 3
👍👍 14%

Wei Yi 🇨🇳 – 1
👍 5%

Maghsoodloo 🇮🇷 – 1
👍 5%

Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 – 1
👍 5%

👥 22 people voted so far.

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Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳 – 4

Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 – 1

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Legendaty chess Grandmaster (Kamsky) time's was over, and prodigy won!
GM Kamsky - GM Maghsoodloo Aeroflot open. BLITZ 2018. prod Sergey Sorokhtin

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Rare photo of Stockholm Interzonal 1962.
Korchnoi, Fischer, Benko and Filip waiting for the start of the round.
Stockholm Interzonal is the first supertournament that Fischer won and he was just 18 years old.

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"A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!"

Lev Polugayevsky (1981) "Grandmaster Preparation

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Often called "The Game of the Century" a 13-year-old Bobby Fischer defeated Donald Byrne who was one of the strongest American players in in the 50s and 60s.

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Viswanathan Anand on chess as patterns and contextual memory

Viswanathan Anand on chess as patterns and contextual memory

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/viswanathan-anand-on-chess-as-patterns-and-contextual-memory/article30270147.ece

The Hindu

India’s first Grandmaster says chess players don’t necessarily have a photographic memory

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Forwarded from utubebot

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Media is too big

Vishy Anand | 50 Years in Chess | Happy Birthday Video

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Viswanathan Anand: I am proud of the last few years that I’m able to fight

Viswanathan Anand: I am proud of the last few years that I’m able to fight

https://sportstar.thehindu.com/chess/viswanathan-anand-chess-world-champion-vladimir-kramnik/article30279763.ece

Sportstar

At 50, India’s first grandmaster reflects on his career and his book Mind Master that will be released in Chennai on Friday.

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Hypermodern Master Breyer Crushes Classical Tarrasch - Breyer vs. Tarrasch, 1914

Hypermodern Master Breyer Crushes Classical Tarrasch - Breyer vs. Tarrasch, 1914

https://www.chess.com/blog/SamCopeland/hypermodern-master-breyer-crushes-classical-tarrasch-breyer-vs-tarrasch-1914

Chess.com

Gyula Breyer was a tremendously promising player and one of the leaders of the hypermodern school of chess. He passed away at a young age (28) in 1921 when he was at the height of his powers. Just one year prior he had won one of the biggest chess tournaments…

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Move of the Day!

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Move of the Day!

tartakower_euwe_1948.pgn

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Very methodical move order under pressure by this young prodigy, named Artemiev. In this end game he had 1 pawn + bishop and 1 Rook; his opponent 1 pawn and 1 Rook. How to convert this bishop's up advantage into a win?
Here's the answer...

GM Artemiev vs GM Matlakov (endgame)

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