The participants of the 2nd Piatigorsky Cup (Santa Monica 1966) - Portisch, Fischer, Spassky, Donner, Larsen, Najdorf, Ivkov, Petrosian, Unzicker - with Mrs Piatigorsky.
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The 23rd(!) & final-round game between Vasily Smyslov (USSR) & Bent Larsen (Denmark) from the FIDE Interzonal Tournament, Amsterdam, May-June 1964. The game was drawn in 49 moves..
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🔸London Chess Classic 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2760)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2799)
🔸0-1
🔸Round 4
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2760)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2799)
🔸0-1
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🔸London Chess Classic 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2799)
⚫️Anand,Viswanathan (2782)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 5
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2799)
⚫️Anand,Viswanathan (2782)
🔸1-0
🔸 Efim Bogoljubov
🔸 Chess composer and German chess grandmaster
🔸 Born: April 14, 1889, Tarashcha, Ukraine
🔸 Died: June 18, 1952, Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany
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🔸 Chess composer and German chess grandmaster
🔸 Born: April 14, 1889, Tarashcha, Ukraine
🔸 Died: June 18, 1952, Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany
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🔸 Efim Bogoljubov
🔸Chess composer
🔸 Winner Of Moscow (1925) Super Toutnament
💢 Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches against Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.
💢 Born: April 14, 1889, Tarashcha, Ukraine
💢 Died: June 18, 1952, Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany
💢 Title: Grandmaster
🔸 One of the important tournament that Bogoljubov win it, was Moscow Super Toutnament in 1925.
🔸 The story of this tournament:
▪️ At the end of the USSR Championship (1925), Efim Bogoljubov emerged as the champion.
He had participated as a Russian national although he was living in Triberg, Germany at the time.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, head of the Soviet Chess Association, in an effort to popularize chess in the Soviet Union, organized an international tournament of the scope seen in New York (1924) a year earlier.
The event was held in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow from November 7 to December 10.
In addition to the Soviet Champion, ten foreign masters, including Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul Capablanca, the former and current World Champions respectively, and ten Soviet players were invited to compete in the round robin format.
Before the start of the tournament pundits expected a repeat of New York, with Capablanca and Lasker racing each other to the finish, but once it was under way Bogoljubov was the one who performed supremely, ultimately winning the tournament ahead of the two favorites. His victory was hailed as a Soviet triumph, and in truth the tournament was an unprecedented success for the Revolution. Hundreds of Soviet citizens gathered at the hotel to follow the games, and tens of thousands across the country awaited news from Moscow each day.
The celebration would be a bittersweet one for Soviet Russia, however, as Bogoljubov would never participate in another Soviet event.
He defected a year later and eventually became a German citizen, earning him the moniker "renegade" (as Alekhine had).
It was also a tournament that would be of enormous historical importance.
🔸 See the final crosstable and Player's full list of this tournament and review a memorable game from Bogoljubov in this super tournament 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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🔸 Efim Bogoljubov
🔸Chess composer
🔸 Winner Of Moscow (1925) Super Toutnament
💢 Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches against Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.
💢 Born: April 14, 1889, Tarashcha, Ukraine
💢 Died: June 18, 1952, Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany
💢 Title: Grandmaster
🔸 One of the important tournament that Bogoljubov win it, was Moscow Super Toutnament in 1925.
🔸 The story of this tournament:
▪️ At the end of the USSR Championship (1925), Efim Bogoljubov emerged as the champion.
He had participated as a Russian national although he was living in Triberg, Germany at the time.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, head of the Soviet Chess Association, in an effort to popularize chess in the Soviet Union, organized an international tournament of the scope seen in New York (1924) a year earlier.
The event was held in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow from November 7 to December 10.
In addition to the Soviet Champion, ten foreign masters, including Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul Capablanca, the former and current World Champions respectively, and ten Soviet players were invited to compete in the round robin format.
Before the start of the tournament pundits expected a repeat of New York, with Capablanca and Lasker racing each other to the finish, but once it was under way Bogoljubov was the one who performed supremely, ultimately winning the tournament ahead of the two favorites. His victory was hailed as a Soviet triumph, and in truth the tournament was an unprecedented success for the Revolution. Hundreds of Soviet citizens gathered at the hotel to follow the games, and tens of thousands across the country awaited news from Moscow each day.
The celebration would be a bittersweet one for Soviet Russia, however, as Bogoljubov would never participate in another Soviet event.
He defected a year later and eventually became a German citizen, earning him the moniker "renegade" (as Alekhine had).
It was also a tournament that would be of enormous historical importance.
🔸 See the final crosstable and Player's full list of this tournament and review a memorable game from Bogoljubov in this super tournament 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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🔸 Efim Bogoljubov - Ernst Gruenfeld , Moscow (1925), URS, rd 1, Nov-10
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📘 22.Qe1?? (Qd3=)
Volkov's suicide in an equal position.
22...Bd4+ 23.Kg2 Qg4+ 24.Kf1 Qh3+ 25.N×h3 B×h3# 0-1
Volkov's suicide in an equal position.
22...Bd4+ 23.Kg2 Qg4+ 24.Kf1 Qh3+ 25.N×h3 B×h3# 0-1
📘 A) 9.Ne2
An interesting idea by Caruana.
Ne2-->g4-->Ng3-->Nf5 then 0-0-0 and attacking on the kingside.
B)
Anand has played a different idea:
0-0-->Nd2-->Nc4-->N×d6 and eventually f4.
An interesting idea by Caruana.
Ne2-->g4-->Ng3-->Nf5 then 0-0-0 and attacking on the kingside.
B)
Anand has played a different idea:
0-0-->Nd2-->Nc4-->N×d6 and eventually f4.
📘 9.Be2!
Why prepare to fianchetto, and then develop the bishop to e2? because Circumstances changed with Tal's last move and Fischer is quick to adapt to the new environment. The bishop covers f3, as well as c4 while preparing Qd4.
9.Bg2 d6 10.Qd4 a6 11.0-0-0 axb5 12.Bxe5 Be7+/- Now if the bishop was on e2, white would take the b5 with the check!
9.Bg5? helping the knight on e5 from getting rid of the pin, is not a logical way.
Why prepare to fianchetto, and then develop the bishop to e2? because Circumstances changed with Tal's last move and Fischer is quick to adapt to the new environment. The bishop covers f3, as well as c4 while preparing Qd4.
9.Bg2 d6 10.Qd4 a6 11.0-0-0 axb5 12.Bxe5 Be7+/- Now if the bishop was on e2, white would take the b5 with the check!
9.Bg5? helping the knight on e5 from getting rid of the pin, is not a logical way.