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Soviet-era color postcards featuring elite chess players: Antoly Karpov, Nona Gaprindashvili, Olga Rubtsova and Mikhail Botvinnik.

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Larsen and Spassky plays friendly blitz-games visiting Einar Einarsson in 1979.

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In blitz, the knight is stronger than the bishop.

🔸 Vlastmil Hort

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Amsterdam, 16th March 1989. In the opening round of the Euwe Memorial tournament, Nigel Short is pictured in play v. Jan Timman, who looks on in the background.

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Move of the Day!
Peter Svidler:
Spring cleaning turned up some unexpected mementos
How many grandmasters do you recognize from the Oakham 1990 tournament?
Today, Lajos Portisch - the "hungarian Botvinnik" celebrates his 83nd birthday.
Here are 23 mates and chess combinations from the games of HUN GM Lajos Portisch (83rd birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/port.html + 100s of his games. Find the winning moves. #puzzles
Sanan Sjugirov wins 8.5:5.5 and goes through to play a semi-final against Magnus Carlsen - his score against the World Champion? 2 games, 2 wins, one of them classical!