From the RIA Novosti archives, a photo of 22-year-old Anatoly Karpov in post-mortem analysis of his 12th-round game v. Vladimir Tukmakov from the 41st USSR Championship in Moscow, October 1973.
(This is among the games featured in this 2020 blog post: https://dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/anatoly-karpov-at-the-41st-ussr-ch-moscow-1973/).
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(This is among the games featured in this 2020 blog post: https://dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/anatoly-karpov-at-the-41st-ussr-ch-moscow-1973/).
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Unity Chess Club
From the RIA Novosti archives, a photo of 22-year-old Anatoly Karpov in post-mortem analysis of his 12th-round game v. Vladimir Tukmakov from the 41st USSR Championship in Moscow, October 1973. (This is among the games featured in this 2020 blog post: htt…
Tukmakov vs. Karpov 1973.pgn
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Vishy Anand [on game 32 of the 1978 world title match between Karpov and Korchnoi]: "I still don't know fully the Korchnoi team's motivation to play the Pirc Defence in that game [when the score was 5-5]. Is Karpov really weak in Pirc?"
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
Unity Chess Club
Vishy Anand [on game 32 of the 1978 world title match between Karpov and Korchnoi]: "I still don't know fully the Korchnoi team's motivation to play the Pirc Defence in that game [when the score was 5-5]. Is Karpov really weak in Pirc?" 🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan…
Karpov vs. Korchnoi 1978.pgn
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Today's puzzle is from a game between world championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi and his second Vladimir Potkin. #CarlsenNepo
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/420758
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/420758
The third game Nepomniachtchi v Carlsen ends in a draw. After three games, the score is 1½-1½. #CarlsenNepo
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Ian Nepomniachtchi - Magnus Carlsen, Game 3: ½-½ (total: Carlsen 1½-1½ Nepomniachtchi)
After a clean Ruy López, game three of #CarlsenNepo ends peacefully. The players will have a rest day tomorrow and return back with Magnus Carlsen with the White pieces.
After a clean Ruy López, game three of #CarlsenNepo ends peacefully. The players will have a rest day tomorrow and return back with Magnus Carlsen with the White pieces.
FIDE World Chess Championship Game 3: Magnus Bulletproof With Black
The #CarlsenNepo match remains in a deadlock as Nepomniachtchi drew his third game with Magnus Carlsen on Sunday. The latter said: "I was obviously making some fairly ugly moves but it seemed all to work out reasonably well." Report:👇👇
The #CarlsenNepo match remains in a deadlock as Nepomniachtchi drew his third game with Magnus Carlsen on Sunday. The latter said: "I was obviously making some fairly ugly moves but it seemed all to work out reasonably well." Report:👇👇
Game 3 - facts sheet.
1️⃣ I am not surprised.
2️⃣ After yesterday’s stormy one, today's has been a peaceful game (draw).☮️
3️⃣ Even with the draws the tension grows with every game!
4️⃣ Tomorrow free day.😉 See you on Tuesday! ❤️
🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)
1️⃣ I am not surprised.
2️⃣ After yesterday’s stormy one, today's has been a peaceful game (draw).☮️
3️⃣ Even with the draws the tension grows with every game!
4️⃣ Tomorrow free day.😉 See you on Tuesday! ❤️
🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)
Photographed in Moscow during his 1969 defence of the World Championship v. Boris Spassky - Tigran Petrosian (b. Tbilisi, 1929; d. Moscow, 1984).
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.”
🔸 Garry Kasparov
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Garry Kasparov
@UnityChessClub
World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov gives a simultaneous display in the town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, USSR, May 1981.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Fabrice Wantiez (@FabriceWantiez):
As a public person, you cannot declare that! There are indeed some dark spots in his life, but we don't know the absolute truth and who we are to judge without knowing anything?
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🔗 Jennifer Shahade (@JenShahade):
While Alekhine was hobnobbing with Hans Frank, Nazi leader of occupied Poland that orchestrated the slaughter of millions, another chess player’s parents died in the Łódź (Poland) Ghetto and Belgen-Bersen camp.
Isabelle Choko survived at 55 pounds when her camp was liberated.
As a public person, you cannot declare that! There are indeed some dark spots in his life, but we don't know the absolute truth and who we are to judge without knowing anything?
➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
🔗 Jennifer Shahade (@JenShahade):
While Alekhine was hobnobbing with Hans Frank, Nazi leader of occupied Poland that orchestrated the slaughter of millions, another chess player’s parents died in the Łódź (Poland) Ghetto and Belgen-Bersen camp.
Isabelle Choko survived at 55 pounds when her camp was liberated.
A young Garry Kasparov (pictured, according to the archive records, in Baku in October 1977).
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
A fine photo of the game between Magnus Carlsen & his future coach Peter Heine Nielsen, played in Rd. 6 of the Sigeman tournament in Malmö/Copenhagen, 6th May 2004.
Magnus won this game; Peter Heine shared 1st-2nd with Curt Hansen.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Magnus won this game; Peter Heine shared 1st-2nd with Curt Hansen.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)