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♟Sundays With Unity♟
December 13th, 2020
🏆Team Tournament🏆
🔵14:00 GMT🔵
💎2nd Unity Chess International Team Championship
💵 $1,500+ guaranteed prizes for more than 200 players
🎥 All players need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.
🔴Video camera needs to cover the full view of the screen and player body.
🔹All players are required to join the Unity Team, which has been formed on Lichess for this tournament.
🔹All players must take part in the tournament with their official Lichess ID otherwise won’t be able to win the prizes.
🔷Regulations:
1️⃣ Each team will have a captain who is responsible for the team. The captain will register the team and will be paid the prize, any claim can only be made by the captain of the team.
2️⃣ Each team has 5 players
3️⃣ Entry fee:
Africa, Asia, Latin America: $10 per team.
The rest: $20 per team.
4️⃣ Type: Arena; 3+0
5️⃣ Berserk allowed
6️⃣The average rating of top 3 players in each team will be the rating for that team and shows the category for the prizes. For example if the average rating of top 3 players is 1950, that means that team has a chance to win the prizes for 1600-1999 category.
7️⃣ For individual ratings, the maximum current FIDE rating of all three formats will pick.
8️⃣ All players in each team need to be from the same country or same Fide flag.
9️⃣ Unrated players will use their peak Lichess blitz rating minus 100.
🔟 Players compete individually, but at the end the sum of top 3 players of each team who got the most points will consider for the total points of that team.
🛑No more registration will get accepted one hour prior to the tournament!
⛔️One player cheated, the whole team going out from the winners list.
🔷Individual Prizes:
Open:
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
Women:
1️⃣$50
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
🔷Team Prizes:
🔰2000+🔰
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20
🔰1600-1999🔰
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20
🔰U1600🔰
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20
✅ Top 3 African team, Asian team, Latin American in each team sections:
1️⃣$25
2️⃣$15
3️⃣$10
🎁 A country with the most team participants will receive an additional $75 ($25 for each section). The team that didn’t win the prize will be eligible to receive that special prize.
💎The goal of this tournament is to provide a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!
🔷Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-team-championship-december-13
🔷Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/0p6cXTy0
December 13th, 2020
🏆Team Tournament🏆
🔵14:00 GMT🔵
💎2nd Unity Chess International Team Championship
💵 $1,500+ guaranteed prizes for more than 200 players
🎥 All players need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.
🔴Video camera needs to cover the full view of the screen and player body.
🔹All players are required to join the Unity Team, which has been formed on Lichess for this tournament.
🔹All players must take part in the tournament with their official Lichess ID otherwise won’t be able to win the prizes.
🔷Regulations:
1️⃣ Each team will have a captain who is responsible for the team. The captain will register the team and will be paid the prize, any claim can only be made by the captain of the team.
2️⃣ Each team has 5 players
3️⃣ Entry fee:
Africa, Asia, Latin America: $10 per team.
The rest: $20 per team.
4️⃣ Type: Arena; 3+0
5️⃣ Berserk allowed
6️⃣The average rating of top 3 players in each team will be the rating for that team and shows the category for the prizes. For example if the average rating of top 3 players is 1950, that means that team has a chance to win the prizes for 1600-1999 category.
7️⃣ For individual ratings, the maximum current FIDE rating of all three formats will pick.
8️⃣ All players in each team need to be from the same country or same Fide flag.
9️⃣ Unrated players will use their peak Lichess blitz rating minus 100.
🔟 Players compete individually, but at the end the sum of top 3 players of each team who got the most points will consider for the total points of that team.
🛑No more registration will get accepted one hour prior to the tournament!
⛔️One player cheated, the whole team going out from the winners list.
🔷Individual Prizes:
Open:
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
Women:
1️⃣$50
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
🔷Team Prizes:
🔰2000+🔰
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20
🔰1600-1999🔰
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20
🔰U1600🔰
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20
✅ Top 3 African team, Asian team, Latin American in each team sections:
1️⃣$25
2️⃣$15
3️⃣$10
🎁 A country with the most team participants will receive an additional $75 ($25 for each section). The team that didn’t win the prize will be eligible to receive that special prize.
💎The goal of this tournament is to provide a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!
🔷Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-team-championship-december-13
🔷Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/0p6cXTy0
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Unity Team Championship December 13 team
♟Sundays With Unity♟ December 13th, 2020 🏆Team Tournament🏆 💎2nd Unity Chess International Team Championship 💵 $1,500+ guarant…
1994, Moscow. Traditions Soviet chess school still continue to work. Therefore, the main competitor of the stellar Russian team is the Russia-2 team! Three rounds before the finish, Russian youth team is in the lead and only in the last meters do the favorites become the first...
🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
"It's a very special generation, because during our careers the computer entered chess..."
🔸 Vassily Ivanchuk
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Vassily Ivanchuk
@UnityChessClub
Paul Keres during a simultaneous exhibition in London in November 1962.
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
A photo taken during the second session, shortly before the draw was agreed. According to Botvinnik, Fischer left the playing hall "white as a sheet, with tears in his eyes".
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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Fischer vs Botvinnik
Ol. Varna, 1962
Draw
Ol. Varna, 1962
Draw
Via http://ruchess.ru, a photo of Mikhail Botvinnik and his wife, Gayane Davidovna, on the day of their return from the international tournament in Nottingham, 1936.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Another photo of the Botvinniks at their dacha.
(Image credit: Yu. Abramochkin, Novosti Press.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(Image credit: Yu. Abramochkin, Novosti Press.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Ex-world champion Tigran Petrosian at his dacha, 1970s. (Photo credit: S. Kivrin.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Unity Chess Club
84-year-old Jacques Mieses during the 1948/49 Hastings congress. He also played in the great 1895 Hastings tournament where he didn't do well but he drew against top-finishers such as Chigorin, Lasker, Tarrasch, and Steinitz. 🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
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Jacques Mieses - Best Chess Tactics
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Judit Polgar's 5 Most Brilliant Chess Moves, the strongest female chess player of all time!
My first round robin GM tournament I have played in Royal city Cracow at age of 14. It was a part of Cracovia Chess Festival played in Dec 2020 for the 30th time.
I also study at Cracow University of Physical Education. Hope to complete this school year.
🔗 Jan-Krzysztof Duda (@GM\_JKDuda)
I also study at Cracow University of Physical Education. Hope to complete this school year.
🔗 Jan-Krzysztof Duda (@GM\_JKDuda)
Polina Shuvalova maintains leadership at the Russian Women's Championship Superfinal. Ian Nepomniachtchi catches up with Sergey Karjakin. https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/polina_shuvalova_maintains_leaderships_at_russian_women_s_championship_superfinal_/
Федерация шахмат России
Polina Shuvalova Maintains Leadership at Russian Women's Championship Superfinal
The fourth round of the Russian Championships Superfinals was played on December 8 in the Central Chess Club in Moscow.
Sergey Karjakin, the leader of the open tournament, drew his game against Maksim Chigaev.
Sergey Karjakin:
Sergey Karjakin, the leader of the open tournament, drew his game against Maksim Chigaev.
Sergey Karjakin:
Flame of Live Tournament. The Superfinal Rounds 1-3 review by Klementy Sychev https://ruchess.ru/en/news/report/flame_of_live_tournament/
#CFR #Superfinal2020
#CFR #Superfinal2020
Nepomniachtchi catches Karjakin in the Russian Championship lead! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/russian-superfinal-2020/4/1/5
#c24live
#c24live
chess24.com
Antipov, Mikhail Al. vs. Nepomniachtchi, Ian | Russian Championship Superfinal 2020
Replay the Russian Championship Superfinal Round 4 game played on 08/12/2020 with computer analysis