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β€œUnder no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.”

πŸ”Έ Pal Benko

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Semyon Furman and a young Anatoly Karpov during a training session. No apps, no websites, no sophisticated engines and no tropical resorts for training camps. Just good old-fashioned books, magazines, and the irreplaceable one-to-one connection in a cold Soviet-era flat.
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A blitz game between Geller & Tal, with Karpov, Petrosian & Furman spectating. USSR, early 1970s.

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Karpov & his trainer Semyon Furman, Leningrad, 1970. The position on the board is from Karpov-Caro, Caracas 1970.

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Hello (chess) world!
That's me Jan-Krzysztof Duda.
It is my first day on Twitter.
As Christmas is coming I will open #JKDuda Advent Calendar. ;-)
Let me start from my 1st chess tournament - 2005 Kindergarten Chess Champ.
Can you find me?
And please find me and follow on FB, too.

πŸ”— Jan-Krzysztof Duda (@GM\_JKDuda)
It's #SpeedChess quarterfinals week!

Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Aronian-MVL

Dec. 3 at 5 a.m. Pacific / 14:00 Central Europe: Carlsen-Artemiev

Dec. 3 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Nakamura vs. Fedoseev
βš”οΈ MVL vs Levon Aronian βš”οΈ

Who comes out on top? πŸ€”
Participants at Bad Kissingen, August 1928.
L to R (standing) Euwe, Yates, Tartakower, Spielmann, RΓ©ti, Mieses, Bogoljubow; (seated) Nimzowitsch, Capablanca, Tarrasch, Marshall.
(Source: https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl.) #chess

πŸ”— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
"Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels..."

πŸ”Έ Mark Dvoretsky

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Boris Spassky versus Bobby Fischer during their encounter at the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen in September 1970 (Associated Press Archive).

πŸ”— Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

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β˜‘οΈ Siegen ol final (1970), Siegen FRG, rd 15, Sep-19

βšͺοΈπŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Boris Spassky
βš«οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Robert James Fischer

Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Classical Variation (D86)

Result : 1-0

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If I was FIDE , the person I'd approve GM title was my mom. She is absolutely Grandmaster in area of taking care I can focus on playing chess without worrying about details.
#ChessMom

πŸ”— Jan-Krzysztof Duda (@GM\_JKDuda):

βž–βž–βž–βž–βž–βž–βž–βž–βž–βž–βž–
πŸ”— International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess):
No doubt Ms Wiesia deserves this recognition. Thank you for supporting your immensely talented son!

And now that we are at it: hats off to all the chess parents out there! πŸ™Œ
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Super-GM, 20-year-old chess deity, and "most hated man in Russia" according to @DanielRensch will (like all of us) still always be mama's little boy. 😍

#speedchess

πŸ”— Chess.com (@chesscom)

https://www.chess.com/news/view/duda-upsets-grischuk-in-epic-speed-chess-match
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