Dorsa Derakhshani: From Iran to the USA (part 1)

https://en.chessbase.com/post/dorsa-derakhshani-from-iran-to-the-usa

Nikola Karaklajić (left) and Rossolimo (right)

When he was 6,his sister Joan brought him home a chess board
His mother was worried about his loneliness and took him to a psychiatrist
Asked for playmates in local newspaper
They forwarded it to chess journalist Hermann Helms.
Rest is history.
Bobby Fischer was born #OnThisDay

🔸Emirates ch-Arab 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Adly,A (2626)
⚫️Salem,AR (2660)
🔸0-1

14...Bd3! [By breaking the connection between the white queen and the d5–pawn, Black wins the pawn.]

15.Re1 N6xd5 16.Be5? [The exchange of the dark-squared bishop is in Black's favor because he can exploit the f4 square by his knight.]

[¹16.Nxd5 Nxd5™ 17.Bd6! Qxd6 18.Qxd3 Rad8!µ △B×d4]

16...Bxe5! [△Nf4]

17.Rxe5 Nf4 18.Rxc5 Qe7 19.Ra5 Nxg2!–+ [△b6]

[19...Rfe8!? △N×g2 20.Qd2 Nxg2 21.Kxg2 b6 22.Ra4 a5!–+]

Jan Timman and Anatoly Karpov, pictured at Tilburg, 18th October 1986.

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"We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly."

🔸 Richard Reti

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June 30th 1958. 15 year old Bobby Fischer playing Blitz against Tigran Petrosian at the Moscow Central chess club.

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Find more details about this famous Fischer story in our obituary of an eye witness, GM Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018):

https://chess.com/news/view/evgeni-vasiukov-1933-2018

This is the scoresheet by 13-year-old Bobby Fischer containing his game against Donald Byrne.

"The Game of the Century" was played in the Marshall Chess Club in 1956 and was published in numberous chess magazines. Check it out: https://chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361

In a December 1971 interview for a Mar del Plata newspaper, Bobby Fischer was asked to define chess: "It is science, but in a sporting format. You could say that it is a competitive science."

Move of the Day!

IM Padmini,R (2427) - GM Al Sayed,Mohamad (2530)
Gibraltar Masters 2016

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/108655

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 28

Nana Dzagnidze defeats Marie Sebag and joins Aleksandra Goryachkina in the lead with three rounds to go at #WomenGrandPrixFIDE in Lausanne.

Standings after 8 rounds of #WomenGrandPrixFIDE:

1-2. Dzagnidze, Goryachkina - 5
3-6. Abdumalik, A. Muzychuk, Kashlinskaya, M. Muzychuk - 4½
7-9. Harika, Cramling, Ju Wenjun - 4
10. Stefanova - 3½
11. Sebag - 2½
12. Kosteniuk - 2