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🇷🇺RUSSIA🇷🇺
Sergey Viktorovich Volkov is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Russian champion in 2000. Volkov competed in the FIDE World Championship in 2000, 2002, and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2007.
Born: February 7, 1974 (age 46 years), Saransk, Russia
Education: Mordovskiy Gosudarstvennyy Universitet Im. N.p. Ogareva
Title: Grandmaster (1998)
FIDE rating: 2570
Peak rating: 2659 (July 2007)
November 29th, 2020
Participant Biography
🇷🇺RUSSIA🇷🇺
Sergey Viktorovich Volkov is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Russian champion in 2000. Volkov competed in the FIDE World Championship in 2000, 2002, and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2007.
Born: February 7, 1974 (age 46 years), Saransk, Russia
Education: Mordovskiy Gosudarstvennyy Universitet Im. N.p. Ogareva
Title: Grandmaster (1998)
FIDE rating: 2570
Peak rating: 2659 (July 2007)
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🇺🇿UZBEKISTAN🇺🇿
Nodirbek Abdusattorov is an Uzbek chess player. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the title Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days. FIDE awarded him the title in April 2018. In 2012 Abdusattorov won the Under 8 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia.
Country
Uzbekistan
Born
September 18, 2004 (age 16)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Title
Grandmaster (2018)
Fide rating
2627 (November 2020)
Peak rating
2644 (February 2020)
November 29th, 2020
Participant Biography
🇺🇿UZBEKISTAN🇺🇿
Nodirbek Abdusattorov is an Uzbek chess player. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the title Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days. FIDE awarded him the title in April 2018. In 2012 Abdusattorov won the Under 8 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia.
Country
Uzbekistan
Born
September 18, 2004 (age 16)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Title
Grandmaster (2018)
Fide rating
2627 (November 2020)
Peak rating
2644 (February 2020)
1956 "Are you sure that you have a better percentage of points than Botvinnik?" - Larsen was asked at the finish of the Olympics in Moscow. "I stood and did not believe that everything happened so quickly" (Larsen)
🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
“Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.”
🔸 Emanuel Lasker
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Emanuel Lasker
@UnityChessClub
Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1968. Viktor Korchnoi faces Mikhail Tal in what proved to be the last of eight(!) successive victories at the start of this 15-round event, which he eventually won by 3 clear points.
(Photos: J. de Nijs / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(Photos: J. de Nijs / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Unity Chess Club
Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1968. Viktor Korchnoi faces Mikhail Tal in what proved to be the last of eight(!) successive victories at the start of this 15-round event, which he eventually won by 3 clear points. (Photos: J. de Nijs / ANEFO, via http://www.n…
korchnoi_tal_1968.pgn
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Hilversum, 6th December 1982. The 1st game in a six-game match sponsored by the broadcasting organisation KRO, between Jan Timman and Viktor Korchnoi.
The match was drawn 3:3, with each player winning one game.
(Photos: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.) #chess
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
The match was drawn 3:3, with each player winning one game.
(Photos: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.) #chess
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
1973. Karpov visits the house-museum of Yasnaya Polyana, where Leo Tolstoy lived most of his life.
🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)
🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)
The real-life Queen's Gambit: how
Nona Gaprindashvili, world’s first female Grandmaster from Georgia, conquered the chess world:
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12351/real-life-queens-gambit-nona-gaprindashvili-georgian-women-chess-beth-harmon-netflix
Nona Gaprindashvili, world’s first female Grandmaster from Georgia, conquered the chess world:
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12351/real-life-queens-gambit-nona-gaprindashvili-georgian-women-chess-beth-harmon-netflix
The Calvert Journal
The real-life Queen’s Gambit: how Georgia’s Nona Gaprindashvili conquered the chess world
While the Netflix story is fictional, Gaprindashvili is a real chess player who became the Women’s World Chess Champion five times
A chess-like 4.000 years old board game from Harappa, Pakistan.
Harappa was a Bronze Age fortified city, part of the Indus Valley Civilization centred in Sindh and Punjab.
🔗 Danilo Giurdanella (@danilogiurdanel):
Harappa was a Bronze Age fortified city, part of the Indus Valley Civilization centred in Sindh and Punjab.
🔗 Danilo Giurdanella (@danilogiurdanel):
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Bobby Fischer's Best Chess Tactics
Radjabov, Teimour - Bortnyk, Olexandr, Doha 2016
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/20376?fbclid=IwAR2Y4v3cjNgffFGp1OESYAwh9-rSTwfjG_sESbUDcl6YTZibfZMBOu8ROKQ
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/20376?fbclid=IwAR2Y4v3cjNgffFGp1OESYAwh9-rSTwfjG_sESbUDcl6YTZibfZMBOu8ROKQ
chesspuzzle.net
Puzzle 20376: White to win
Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Radjabov, Teimour - Bortnyk, Olexandr, Doha 2016.
Breakfast of champions. Sangak bread with avocado and honey!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CII3qeIBi0J/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CII3qeIBi0J/
Nice puzzle from #PersonOfTheDay GM Romain Édouard 🇫🇷 who turns 30 today. Happy Birthday.
White to move and win. From the game Edouard vs Terrieux, Besancon, 2006
White to move and win. From the game Edouard vs Terrieux, Besancon, 2006