Alireza Firouzja is back in action as a replacement for Wei Yi in the Prague Masters that starts tomorrow! We take a look at the chess action that's coming up this week:
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The Week Ahead: 11-17 February 2020
16-year-old Alireza Firouzja replaced Wei Yi to become the surprise highlight of the 2020 Prague International Chess Festival that starts tomorrow after the Chinese star’s travel plans were hit by the coronavirus outbreak. Jan-Krzysztof Duda and David Antón…
Ju Wenjun and Alexandra Kosteniuk are the new leaders on the rest day after all 5 games were decisive in Round 5 of the #CairnsCup!
After 4 losses in a row 16-year-old Carissa Yip grabs her 1st win of the #CairnsCup!
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Congrats to IM Carissa Yip on getting her first win in the #CairnsCup! 👏
A dramatic game where she turned things around against GM Irina Krush.
A dramatic game where she turned things around against GM Irina Krush.
Hoogovens, Wijk aan Zee, 1981. The 4th-round clash (played 20th January) between Soviet grandmasters Mark Taimanov & Evgeny Sveshnikov. In the second shot Taimanov is seen standing alongside Genna Sosonko.
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"Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!"
🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch
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Minic vs Fischer Rovinj/Zagreb 1970.
Fischer won the tournament with 13/17 (+10 -1 =6) two full points ahead of the runner ups- Hort, Gligoric, Smyslov and Korchnoi.
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Fischer won the tournament with 13/17 (+10 -1 =6) two full points ahead of the runner ups- Hort, Gligoric, Smyslov and Korchnoi.
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