♟Sundays with Unity♟
June 7th, 2020
Main Event

♟Sundays with Unity♟
June 7th, 2020

🎁Lucky Prizes🎁

50. IM Viktor Gazik 2502 (SVK)
100. FM Artem Galaktionov 2319 (RUS)
150. CM Mohammad Javad Khorshidi 2105 (IRI)
200. Mohammad Mahdi Alizadeh 1856 (IRI)
250. Amir Reza Bakhtaki 1595 (IRI)
300. FM Morteza Asgari 2183 (IRI)
350. FM Hernan Perelman 2263 (ARG)
400. FM Faber Alberto Narvaez 2098 (COL)
450. M Nisthar Abdallah 1676 (IND)
500. WFM Mayra Cabrera Ladron de Guevara 1967 (CUB)
550. IM Jorge Mario Clavijo 2309 (COL)
600. Haik Azizbekyan 1791 (ARM)
650. FM Igor Vakhlamov 2413 (RUS)
700. Kashyap Saouhridya Pran 1188 (IND)
750. Mohammad Mohammadian 1430 (IRI)
800. Mahdis Manoochehr Nokandi 1080 (IRI)

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Week 1-12

♟Sundays with Unity♟
June 7th, 2020
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♟Sundays with Unity♟
June 7th, 2020
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Two world champions - Max Euwe (Netherlands) & Anatoly Karpov (USSR) are pictured with burgemeester I. Samkalden at the Krasnopolsky Hotel; Karpov was giving a simultaneous display there.

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"Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game."

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz

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Fischer vs Gheorghiu Buenos Aires 1970, round 3.
Fischer destroyed the field with 15/17 (+13 -0 =4), 3.5 points ahead of the runner up Tukmakov 11.5/17 (+7 -1 =9).

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Tallinn, 1976. Vasily Smyslov, Iivo Nei, Boris Spassky & Mikhail Tal are seen analysing the late Paul Keres' game v. László Szabó from the Hungary v. USSR match, Budapest 1955, on the memorial day for the Estonian grandmaster.

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Paul Keres 🆚 Laszlo Szabo

HUN-URS (1955), Budapest HUN, rd 3, May-??
Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer. Classical Variation (B64)

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Isaac Boleslavsky would be 101 today. Amazing player who nearly got to a Title Match, profound theoretician that was second to none in his pet openings - KID, Sicilian and RL. A coach that took Petrosian to the World Champion title. One of the founding fathers of modern Chess.

https://www.chess.com/blog/KingsBishop/remembering-isaac-boleslavsky

Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Isaac Boleslavsky.

http://wtharvey.com/bole.html

Move of the Day!

Daily chess puzzle
Apsenieks - Landau, Kemeri 1937

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/126199

Daily chess puzzle
Herrera Reyes - Siva, Titled Tuesday 2020

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/145713

Anniversary Chess Match Space to Earth ends with a draw

https://en.chessbase.com/post/anniversary-chess-match-space-to-earth-ends-with-a-draw

Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen on qualifying to the semifinals! He also picked up an extra $8,000 for winning the final clutch game #ClutchChess

Magnus Carlsen: "Today could have gone either way!"
Full report on Magnus and Wesley So reaching the Clutch Chess semifinals: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/clutch-chess-day-3-carlsen-and-so-reach-semifinals
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