Rashid Nezhmetdinov's Best Game Prizes

"The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary."

🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch

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Playing the world championship requires nerves of steel.
Spassky said that your pulse is especially high, when you play your first world championship game.
Petrosian vs Spassky 1969.

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Tbilisi, November 1973. Ex-World Champion Tigran Petrosian is pictured in play v. Svetozar Gligorić on Board 1 in the opening round of the USSR v. Yugoslavia friendly match.

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34 out of 34: Remembering Gustav Neumann

https://en.chessbase.com/post/34-out-of-34-remembering-gustav-neumann

Today's puzzle is very difficult, but Magnus Carlsen found all the right moves!
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/158955

BREAKING: Carlsen Might Only Defend Title Vs. Firouzja

https://www.chess.com/news/view/magnus-carlsen-defend-world-chess-title-alireza-firouzja

European Blitz and Rapid Chess Championship starts today in Katowice, Poland🇵🇱
1st seed - Jan-Krzysztof Duda ELO 2792

The 2021 European Rapid&Blitz Chess Championships kick off on Friday in Katowice , Poland.

The first event on the schedule will be the European Blitz Chess Championship 2021 taking place on 17th of December, and the Rapid Championship will be held from 18th-19th December.

https://en.chessbase.com/post/european-rapid-and-blitz-2021-preview

Round 4 of Sunway Sitges is live now:

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/sunway-sitges-2021/4/1/1

Registration for the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2021 is now open.
Eligible players, accompanying persons, FIDE Principals, arbiters and media are invited to register via the following link: https://worldrapidandblitz.fide.com/registration/

Stockholm, 31st July 1937. The U.S. team prior to the start of the 7th Olympiad.
Right to left: Frank Marshall, Reuben Fine, Israel Albert Horowitz, Isaac Kashdan, Sammy Reshevsky + NN.

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"World chess champion Tigran Petrosian analyses a chess game in the chess section of the House of Pioneers."
Moscow, 1968.

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"Tactics flow from a superior position."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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The Last Romantic - Spielman's Best Chess Tactics!

Stockholm, 29th Dec 1960. World Champion Mikhail Tal (USSR) faces Svein Johannessen (Norway) in the 1st round of the international tournament in the Swedish capital. The game was drawn; Tal went on to win the event.
(Photo credit: unknown; pub. in 'Svenska Dagbladet'.)

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Kasparov in simul play in the 1980s.

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London, 20th August 1989. In the 2nd round of the Lloyds' Bank Masters' tournament, Michael Adams (England) considers his move as his opponent, Gata Kamsky (USA), stands over the board. Adams won this game, a Caro-Kann Defence, in 48 moves.

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