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Pal Benko

Semi-Slav Defense - Meran / Wade Variation
Breaking news: Wei Yi cancels, Alireza Firouzja to play in PICF Masters!
No 1 Junior Alireza Firouzja's joining Duda, Vitiugov, Shankland, Harikrishna, Navara, and others at Prague Chess Masters 2020.
#LookingForward to an exciting event!
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https://t.co/PJpH1tTOGN?amp=1

https://www.chess.com/news/view/alireza-firouzja-last-minute-replacement-in-prague-coronavirus-forces-wei-yis-withdrawal
The 2nd edition of the Prague Chess Festival starts on February 11. The line up is 💪(2708 average):

Duda
Vitiugov
Firouzja (replaced Wei Yi)
Vidit
Navara
Harikrishna
Anton
Shankland
Ragger
Grandelius
Raul Capablanca, at the Semmering/Baden tournament, played in September 1937.

Austria hosted this event sponsored by its main casinos. It was a double round-robin, won by Keres with 9/14.

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"Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement..."

🔸 Stanley Kubrick

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Bobby Fischer at the 1962 USA-Poland match.

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Robert James Fischer
Warszawa tt (1962) · Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Reshevsky Variation (D36)

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NEW BLOG POST: With details of a project that I have been working on with Chess_Informant- a fully-revised & greatly extended 50th-anniversary edition of Petrosian & Matanović's book on the 'Match of the Century' (Belgrade, 1970).

https://t.co/XER4A8Hm4i?amp=1
This piece, dated 12th century, is an example of the representational chess design found in Northern Europe. Made of walrus ivory. Perhaps from Trondheim.

It's a wonderful King whose beard is longer than his sword!

Musée du Louvre
Cabinet card image of chess robot Ajeeb the Wonderful 1886
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