Sunway Sitges Chess Festival Underway
The sixth edition of the #SunwaySitges chess festival is underway in Sitges, Spain. After just three rounds into the tournament, top seeds Vassily Ivanchuk and Parham Maghsoodloo are no longer on a perfect score:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-sunway-sitges-chess-festival-underway
The sixth edition of the #SunwaySitges chess festival is underway in Sitges, Spain. After just three rounds into the tournament, top seeds Vassily Ivanchuk and Parham Maghsoodloo are no longer on a perfect score:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-sunway-sitges-chess-festival-underway
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Sunway Sitges Chess Festival Underway
The sixth edition of the Sunway Sitges chess festival is underway in Sitges, Spain. After just three rounds into the tournament, top seeds Vassily Ivanchuk and Parham Maghsoodloo are no longer on a perfect score. The festival takes place Dec. 13-22 in Hotel…
They might have played a private match before leaving for the Students World Championship in 1957 where this photo from Kastrup Airport is from 🤷♂️
Tal, Larsen, Filip and Spasskij (taken from the Danish Chess Magazine special Bent Larsen 70 years old edition)
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Tal, Larsen, Filip and Spasskij (taken from the Danish Chess Magazine special Bent Larsen 70 years old edition)
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"In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language."
🔸 Mikhail Tal
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🔸 Mikhail Tal
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Hoogovens, Beverwijk, 9th January 1963. Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh is pictured in play v. Bruno Parma in the 2nd round. In the second photo, David Bronstein looks on.
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Tal's brilliancy prize-winning victory over former world champion, Vasily Smyslov. 👏
The game is something of a passing of the torch, as Smyslov was the previous challenger, and in the 1959 Candidates', Tal became the next challenger.
The game is something of a passing of the torch, as Smyslov was the previous challenger, and in the 1959 Candidates', Tal became the next challenger.
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Tal Wins Candidates' Brilliancy - Tal vs. Smyslov, 1959
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A small taste of Capablanca's endgame sorcery. https://bit.ly/35vZgcv
Results are in at the K-12 Grade Championships! #K12ChessChamps
https://new.uschess.org/news/2019-k-12-grade-championship-results/
https://new.uschess.org/news/2019-k-12-grade-championship-results/
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2019 K-12 Grade Championships Results - US Chess
After three days and seven rounds of competition, here are the winners of the 2019 K-12 Grade Championships. US Chess will have annotations and reflections...
Halfway through the #SunwaySitges open with Anton Korobov 2668 and Narayanan.S.L 2626 leading thanks to their victories over Praggnanandhaa and Sasikiran in the 5th round.
The two leaders face off against each other today.
The two leaders face off against each other today.