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SMOOTH | Capablanca vs Lasker | World Championship 1921 Game 11

Webster University Chess Coach Susan Polgar to retire, will be moving to Florida to be closer to family and for health reasons.
Press release: https://news.webster.edu/2021/chess-susan-polgar-coach-retirement.php

Proud of my two students getting the MOST out of their chess training!! Genius idea!! #chesspunks

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Praggnanandhaa Leads Polgar Challenge Halfway
After 10 of 19 rounds, Praggnanandhaa leads the #PolgarChallenge, the first leg of the new #ChessChallengers tour. 20 talented players are competing in two teams, coached by Vladimir Kramnik and Judit Polgar

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GM Parham Maghsoodloo is leading the 55th edition of the Iranian championship with 9 out of 10. The 20-year-old has previously won the national title in 2017 and 2018 and is determined to repeat this feat. The 16-player round-robin will end on April 13.

After Bogolyubov won a tournament a head of Capablanca he said-It is apparent that Capablanca finds it very difficult to separate himself from his dry style of play~ Efim Bogolyubov.
A few years later...
There is nothing more to fear from the Capablancas technique.

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Miguel Najdorf and William Lombardy blitzing by the pool in the 1970s, photographed by Bette Marshall.

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Nikšić, Yugoslavia, 7th September 1983.
Tony Miles and Garry Kasparov analyse their drawn game from the 11th round of the super-tournament with ex-World Champions Tigran Petrosian and Mikhail Tal.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Draws in chess is not a fault of chess, but it's a fault of chess players

🔸 Alexander Alekhine.

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Garry Kasparov. Pictured in Baku, USSR. July 1980.
(📷Ya. Khalilov, TASS).

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Garry Kasparov used to celebrate an incoming king hunt with the same appetite the Big Bad Wolf reserved for the Little Red Riding Hood, her basket and her grandma.

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Photographer J. Walter Green took this fine shot of Bobby Fischer leaving the Laugardalsholl in Reykjavík after winning the world chess championship title (AP Archive).

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