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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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Grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov (born 11th February 1950), pictured here at Wijk aan Zee, January 1981.

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Move of the Day!

Ju Wenjun

...Rd5!
Nikita Vitiugov, Vidit Santosh, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda take the lead in #picf2020 after winning in the first round.

The 10-player round-robin (2707 average) started today in the Czech capital.
the first move by the legendary GM Lubomír Kaválek.