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🔹 Veselin Topalov
🔹 Bulgarian Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion.
♦️ Topalov became FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005. He lost his title in the World Chess Championship 2006 against Vladimir Kramnik. He challenged Viswanathan Anand at the World Chess Championship 2010, losing 6½–5½.
Topalov won the 2005 Chess Oscar.
▪️ Full name: Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov
▪️ Country: Bulgaria
▪️ Born: 15 March 1975 (age 43) Ruse, Bulgaria
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1992)
▪️ World Champion: 2005–06 (FIDE)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2749 (January 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2816 (July 2015)
▪️ Ranking: No. 15 (October 2017)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 1 (April 2006)
♦️ In 2017, Topalov had a game which won a brilliancy In Shamkir against Radoslaw Wojtaszek in round 2!!
In this game Veselin Topalov by a beautiful winner game as Black against Radek Wojtaszek in which a rook sacrifice lead to an attack against White's centralized king.
Review this excellent game and download it's annotated PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs Veselin Topalov
🔸 Gashimov Memorial (2017), Shamkir AZE, rd 2, Apr-22
🔸 Slav Defense: Quiet Variation. Schallopp Defense (D12)
♦️ Also a nice game by Topalov in Gibraltar 2017 which won grandmaster Thomas Paehtz from germany in only 16 moves!!
♦️ The PGN file of Topalov contain this game too ... 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Veselin Topalov vs Thomas Paehtz Sr
🔸 Tradewise Gibraltar (2017), Catalan Bay GIB, rd 1, Jan-24
🔸 Horwitz Defense: General (A40)
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🔹 Veselin Topalov
🔹 Bulgarian Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion.
♦️ Topalov became FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005. He lost his title in the World Chess Championship 2006 against Vladimir Kramnik. He challenged Viswanathan Anand at the World Chess Championship 2010, losing 6½–5½.
Topalov won the 2005 Chess Oscar.
▪️ Full name: Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov
▪️ Country: Bulgaria
▪️ Born: 15 March 1975 (age 43) Ruse, Bulgaria
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1992)
▪️ World Champion: 2005–06 (FIDE)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2749 (January 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2816 (July 2015)
▪️ Ranking: No. 15 (October 2017)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 1 (April 2006)
♦️ In 2017, Topalov had a game which won a brilliancy In Shamkir against Radoslaw Wojtaszek in round 2!!
In this game Veselin Topalov by a beautiful winner game as Black against Radek Wojtaszek in which a rook sacrifice lead to an attack against White's centralized king.
Review this excellent game and download it's annotated PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs Veselin Topalov
🔸 Gashimov Memorial (2017), Shamkir AZE, rd 2, Apr-22
🔸 Slav Defense: Quiet Variation. Schallopp Defense (D12)
♦️ Also a nice game by Topalov in Gibraltar 2017 which won grandmaster Thomas Paehtz from germany in only 16 moves!!
♦️ The PGN file of Topalov contain this game too ... 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Veselin Topalov vs Thomas Paehtz Sr
🔸 Tradewise Gibraltar (2017), Catalan Bay GIB, rd 1, Jan-24
🔸 Horwitz Defense: General (A40)
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🔸 Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs Veselin Topalov
🔸 Gashimov Memorial (2017), Shamkir AZE, rd 2, Apr-22
🔸 Slav Defense: Quiet Variation. Schallopp Defense (D12)
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🔸 Gashimov Memorial (2017), Shamkir AZE, rd 2, Apr-22
🔸 Slav Defense: Quiet Variation. Schallopp Defense (D12)
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📕11...Nb8!
A Karpovian retreat. No other player has ever been more skilled at using the back rank to increase the energy of his pieces than the 12th World Champion. The knight is well placed on c6, but there is an even better square waiting for it on c5 - and so the knight spends three moves getting there. Karpov is king of the short maneuver.
11...Na5 12.Bb5+ Bd7 13.a4 has already played in a game between Vasiukov-Robatsch with white's success.
11...0-0 The main line according to theory.
A Karpovian retreat. No other player has ever been more skilled at using the back rank to increase the energy of his pieces than the 12th World Champion. The knight is well placed on c6, but there is an even better square waiting for it on c5 - and so the knight spends three moves getting there. Karpov is king of the short maneuver.
11...Na5 12.Bb5+ Bd7 13.a4 has already played in a game between Vasiukov-Robatsch with white's success.
11...0-0 The main line according to theory.
📕 25.Rc5!
White has an extra pawn and there is another one hanging on b5, but after 25.Rxb5 Rxa2 26.b4 Black has great chances to draw after 26...Bh4!. , Black's rook on the seventh rank gives him a lot of counterplay. So Nimzowitsch wants to stop his opponent getting his rook to the seventh rank whilst getting his own rook to its ideal location.
White has an extra pawn and there is another one hanging on b5, but after 25.Rxb5 Rxa2 26.b4 Black has great chances to draw after 26...Bh4!. , Black's rook on the seventh rank gives him a lot of counterplay. So Nimzowitsch wants to stop his opponent getting his rook to the seventh rank whilst getting his own rook to its ideal location.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 205
A: g4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
B: f3
▫️ 0%
C: B×c6
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far.
A: g4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
B: f3
▫️ 0%
C: B×c6
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 206
B: B×d7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
C: Nd5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 30%
A: c×b5 – 1
👍 10%
👥 10 people voted so far.
B: B×d7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
C: Nd5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 30%
A: c×b5 – 1
👍 10%
👥 10 people voted so far.
The participants at Mar del Plata (Argentina), 1960. Seated in the front row are Bobby Fischer, David Bronstein, Fridrik Olafsson & Boris Spassky
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14th Olympiad, Leipzig 1960. Final Group 'A', Round 9, 5th November. On Board 1 of the East Germany v. USSR match, World Champion Mikhail Tal faces Burkhard Malich.
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Edgar Walther vs Bobby Fischer, Zürich tournament, 19th May 1959. Fischer was lucky to escape with a draw; this encounter featured in his 'My 60 Memorable Games'. Mikhail Tal looks on.
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