The 7 Best Chess Moments Of 2019‎

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Magnus Carlsen 🏆🥇

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Valentina Gunina 2019

24.Bxh6!

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Best of 2019: Event, News, Player, Stream

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IM Volodar Murzin (🇷🇺 2422). At 13 years old, he behaves like a consummate professional. Like Magnus Carlsen, or Karpov before him, one of his main abilities is to outplay his opponents on apparently equal endgames. Here is an example:

Meet the 13-year-old endgame wizard from Russia - Volodar Murzin

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🔸15th Vasylyshyn GM 2018
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21.Ng5! [White attacks the opponent's main weakness.]

21...Rc7? [¹21...Ne6 22.Nxe6! Rxc4 23.Rd8 fxe6 24.Rxe8+ Rxe8 25.b3±]

22.b4! [Black's knight has no proper square to go to. Black is suffering from his uncoordinated pieces.]

[22.Qa2!? Bc6 23.Nxf7 Rxf7 24.b4!‚ △b5 24...Nb7 25.b5 Bxb5 26.Bxb5 Qxb5 27.Rd7+–]

22...Ne6 23.Nxe6 [△Rd8]

23...Rxc4 24.Rd8 fxe6 25.Rxe8+ Rxe8 26.Qb2 e4 27.Be5 Bxe5 28.Qxe5+–

At the international tournament in Reykjavík, 1964 - grandmasters Mikhail Tal (USSR), Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) & Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland).

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When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

🔸 Viswanathan Anand

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Last round of 1959 Candidates Tournament in Belgrade. Tal-Benko, Smyslov-Fischer, Keres-Olafsson and Petrosian-Gligoric.

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Euwe with his daughter, Fitina and Botvinnik at Groningen 1946. Botvinnik won the tournament with 14.5/19, Euwe in second with 14/19 and Smyslov in third 12.5/19.

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He was never a world champion but here's a remarkable fact about Akiba Rubinstein's play: he has beaten Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine in his very first encounter with each of these iconic masters.

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