The great Garry Kasparov playing chess simuls in Alcoy (Spain) on February 1, 1986, less than 3 months after becoming World Champion. I was there. Do you remember Kasparov?
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🔗 Mig Greengard (@chessninja):
Nice pic, classic local photog focusing on the audience and not on Garry ;-) I don't think many of the 32 games from this one are out there. El Pais had it at 25 wins, 6 draws, 1 loss to "local youth Chimo Corbi."
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🔗 Mig Greengard (@chessninja):
Nice pic, classic local photog focusing on the audience and not on Garry ;-) I don't think many of the 32 games from this one are out there. El Pais had it at 25 wins, 6 draws, 1 loss to "local youth Chimo Corbi."
Grandmaster Paul Keres, pictured in play in the international tournament in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, February-March 1975.
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Kavalek himself, pictured in play v. Donner in the 3rd round at Wijk aan Zee, 16th January 1975.
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Via AP_Archive, footage from Round 10 of the super-tournament in Linares (Spain), 29th January 1981. Featured are Boris Spassky, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Anatoly Karpov, Lubosh Kavalek, Larry Christiansen & Zoltán Ribli.
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Golden Globes For The Queen's Gambit
The Netflix series #TheQueensGambit has won the Golden Globe for best miniseries or television film. Anya Taylor-Joy (Beth Harmon) won the Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries or television film.
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The Netflix series #TheQueensGambit has won the Golden Globe for best miniseries or television film. Anya Taylor-Joy (Beth Harmon) won the Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries or television film.
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Golden Globes For The Queen's Gambit
The Netflix series The Queen's Gambit has won the Golden Globe for best miniseries or television film. Anya Taylor-Joy, who played the main character Beth Harmon, also won the Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries or television film. On November 23…
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Congratulations 🥳 to the entire cast and crew of netflix series The Queen’s Gambit for winning at the golden globes. A truly Super Grandmaster level achievement by the team. #GoldenGlobes #TheQueensGambit #Topboard #Winner
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GM Ivan Rozum and IM Marina Guseva are the winners of Moscow Open - groups A & B respectively. Congrats!