Magnus Carlsen will be the sole leader of the tournament named after him after Round 3 - MVL-Ding and Giri-Nepo are still to play tomorrow!
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/magnus-carlsen-invitational-2020/5/1/1
#c24live #MagnusInvite

♟Sundays with Unity♟

April 19th, 2020

Main Prizes
1️⃣GM Rasulov, Vugar (AZE)
2️⃣GM Erigaisi, Arjun (IND)
3️⃣IM Golubov, Saveliy (RUS)
4️⃣IM Beerdsen, Thomas (NED)
5️⃣IM Taher, Yoseph (INA)
6️⃣GM Martinez Alcantara, Jose Eduardo (PERU)
7️⃣GM Kovalev, Vladislav (BEL)
8️⃣IM Livaic, Leon (CRO)
9️⃣IM Gadimbayli, Abdulla (AZE)
🔟GM Sarana, Alexey (RUS)

Women
1️⃣WFM Anusha, NLV (IND)
2️⃣WGM Maltsevskaya, Aleksandra (RUS)
3️⃣WCM Ghomi, Parnian (IRI)

Lucky Prizes
20. GM Nodirbek, Abdusattorov (UZB)
50. Manukyan, Artyom (ARM)
100. Ramezabi, Mahan (IRI)
150. Ansari, Soheil (IRI)
200. Sunnatov, Mirfayz (UZB)

U16
1️⃣GM Nodirbek, Abdusattorov (UZB)
2️⃣IM Raja, Rithvik R (IND)

U2200
1️⃣FM Rojas, Steven (PERU)
2️⃣Manukyan, Artyom (ARM)
U2100
1️⃣Tahmasebi, Hamidreza (IRI)
2️⃣Asadi, Motahare (IRI)
U2000
1️⃣Buke Furkan (AZE)
2️⃣Vardanyan, Haik A. (ARM)
3️⃣Gurbanov, Ismayil (AZE)
4️⃣Aghamohamadi, M (IRI)
U1900
1️⃣Sahakyan, Aleks (ARM)
2️⃣Ansari, Soheil (IRI)
U1800
1️⃣ Heravi, Mohammad Hossein (IRI)
2️⃣Yassine Sentissi (MORO)
U1700
1️⃣Musicmaster, Tejash Jain (IND)
2️⃣Ahmadimanesh, Meysam (IRI)
U1600
1️⃣Honarparast, Mohammad (IRI)
2️⃣Davari, Sara (IRI)
U1500
1️⃣Zhakfar, Abdul Saber (AFG)
2️⃣Salehipour, Mehrad (IRI)
U1400
1️⃣Ubaydullaev, Mukhammadiso (UZB)
2️⃣Kakavand, Ramtin (IRI)
Unrated
1️⃣Veysi, Sadegh (IRI)
2️⃣Patel, Purvit (USA)

✳️For under 2000, we made a mistake and announced 3rd and 4th places as top finishers instead of 1st and 2nd. Therefore, for this time, in addition to the top finishers in this section, 3rd and 4th places received the same prizes as well.🎁🎁


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Amsterdam, 26th May 1964. Two studies of Mikhail Tal, pictured in play v. Luděk Pachman in the 6th round of the FIDE Interzonal tournament.
The ex-World Champion won this game in only 19 moves.

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"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre."

🔸 Boris Spassky

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Three images of ex-World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR), in play v. György Szilágyi (Hungary) & Coen Zuidema (Netherlands) at the IBM tournament, Amsterdam, July 1966.

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Mikhail Botvinnik 🆚 Coenraad Zuidema

Amsterdam IBM (1966), Amsterdam NED, rd 6, Jul-11
Neo-Grünfeld Defense: Delayed Exchange Variation (D75)

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Tony Miles - born 65 years ago today - became world junior champion in Manila, 1974. On his right at the closing ceremony is his second, Bernard Cafferty. https://bit.ly/2x51T9i

Miles on a stretcher with back pain, playing in Tilburg (1985)

Tony Miles (1955-2001) would have turned 65 today.

The first Englishman to earn the grandmaster title in over-the-board play, Miles was a world class player in especially the late 1970s and 1980s. He famously beat Anatoly Karpov in a game where he answered 1.e4 with 1...a6!?.

The historic game at the 1980 European Team Championship where Tony Miles beat Karpov with 1...a6.

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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Tony Miles.

http://wtharvey.com/mile.html

https://chesspuzzle.net/Player/Tony_Miles

Happy 36th birthday to Alexandra Kosteniuk! 🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂

Kosteniuk became the 10th woman to earn the GM title at the age of 20. Her biggest accomplishment came four years later, when in 2008 she won the Women’s World Chess Championship.

Here are 43 mates and chess combinations from the games of Women's World Champion RUS GM
Alexandra Kosteniuk (36th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/kost.html + 100s of her games. Find the winning moves. #puzzles