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🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 2
⚪️Short,Nigel D (2678)
⚫️Cheparinov,Ivan (2710)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 2
⚪️Short,Nigel D (2678)
⚫️Cheparinov,Ivan (2710)
🔸1-0
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🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 2
⚪️Bosiocic,Marin (2624)
⚫️Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2729)
🔸0-1
🔸Round 2
⚪️Bosiocic,Marin (2624)
⚫️Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2729)
🔸0-1
📘 20.Nf1!
A nice knight maneuver by Savchenko in order to attack on weak a5-pawn.
20...Bf8 21.Ne3 Bb7 22.Nc4 Ra8 23.Nd1 +-
A nice knight maneuver by Savchenko in order to attack on weak a5-pawn.
20...Bf8 21.Ne3 Bb7 22.Nc4 Ra8 23.Nd1 +-
📘12...Be3?
Nigel Short has missed his opportunity.
(12.B×c6! b×c6 13.c5 Be7 14.Bg5 Qe6 15.Re1 Be4 16.B×e7 Q×e7 17.Nd2 f5 18.f3 +- White wins a piece)
12...a6? 13.B×c6!
And after Black made the mistake again, Nigel found the correct continuation.
Nigel Short has missed his opportunity.
(12.B×c6! b×c6 13.c5 Be7 14.Bg5 Qe6 15.Re1 Be4 16.B×e7 Q×e7 17.Nd2 f5 18.f3 +- White wins a piece)
12...a6? 13.B×c6!
And after Black made the mistake again, Nigel found the correct continuation.
📘 30.Qc2?
Bosiocic's carelessness and Nepomniachtchi's sharpness!
30...R×c1 31.Q×c1 Qe2! 0-1
(If 32.Qc2 Rd1+ 33.Kh2 Bd6+ 34.g3 Q×f3 -+)
Bosiocic's carelessness and Nepomniachtchi's sharpness!
30...R×c1 31.Q×c1 Qe2! 0-1
(If 32.Qc2 Rd1+ 33.Kh2 Bd6+ 34.g3 Q×f3 -+)
📘 20.N×f7!
With his dynamic style, Jobava has sacrificed his knight in an interesting manner.
14...K×f7 15.Ne5+ Kf6 16.d×c5 d4 17.c6 K×e5 18.c×b7 Rb8 19.e3 +-
With his dynamic style, Jobava has sacrificed his knight in an interesting manner.
14...K×f7 15.Ne5+ Kf6 16.d×c5 d4 17.c6 K×e5 18.c×b7 Rb8 19.e3 +-
Pictured at the tournament in Bucharest, in January of 1953, in which the 15-year-old Boris Spassky made his international debut :
Boleslavsky, Smyslov, Petrosian, Tolush, Spassky.
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Boleslavsky, Smyslov, Petrosian, Tolush, Spassky.
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Paul Keres v. Yuri Averbakh, from the 9th round of the Przepiorka Memorial tournament, Szczawno-Zdrój, 29th June 1950.
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Savielly Tartakower v. Nicolas Rossolimo, in the opening round of the international tournament at Amsterdam, 11th November 1950.
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🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Jobava,Baadur (2690)
⚫️Ponomariov,Ruslan (2694)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 3
⚪️Jobava,Baadur (2690)
⚫️Ponomariov,Ruslan (2694)
🔸1-0
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🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Amin,Bassem (2689)
⚫️Yu,Yangyi (2751)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 4
⚪️Amin,Bassem (2689)
⚫️Yu,Yangyi (2751)
🔸1-0
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▪️ Mikhail Botvinnik
▪️ Russian-Soviet electrical engineer and chess grandmaster
♦️ Mikhail Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
🔹 Full name: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
🔹 Country: Soviet Union
🔹 Born: August 17, 1911 Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Repino, Russia)
🔹 Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83) Moscow, Russia
🔹 Title: Grandmaster
🔹 World Champion: 1948–1957 1958–1960 1961–1963
🔹 Peak rating: 2660 (January 1971)
♦️ Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik was born in Kuokkala.
He was raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He learned the game early and progressed rapidly, winning the 1st of his 6 USSR Championships in 1931; the other 5 victories were in 1933, 1939, 1944, 1945 and 1952. He also won the Leningrad tournament of 1934, the Absolute Soviet Championship in 1941, and the Sverdlovsk super tournament of 1943. Other significant achievements include equal first with Salomon Flohr in Moscow 1935, 2nd at Moscow 1936 behind Jose Raul Capablanca, equal first with Capablanca at Nottingham 1936, 3rd at AVRO 1938, and first at Groningen 1946 before playing for the World Championship in 1948. He also won the Tchigorin Memorial tournament of 1947 and came equal first with David Bronstein in the Alekhine Memorial of 1956.
♦️ Today's game selected from 14th Chess Olympiad, Leipzig 1960 which Botvinnik won Lothar Schmid, the grandmaster of west Germany by a excellent central pawn game!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
💢 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Lothar Schmid
💢 Leipzig ol (Men) fin-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 7, Nov-03
💢 Benoni Defense: Old Benoni (A43)
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▪️ Mikhail Botvinnik
▪️ Russian-Soviet electrical engineer and chess grandmaster
♦️ Mikhail Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
🔹 Full name: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
🔹 Country: Soviet Union
🔹 Born: August 17, 1911 Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Repino, Russia)
🔹 Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83) Moscow, Russia
🔹 Title: Grandmaster
🔹 World Champion: 1948–1957 1958–1960 1961–1963
🔹 Peak rating: 2660 (January 1971)
♦️ Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik was born in Kuokkala.
He was raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He learned the game early and progressed rapidly, winning the 1st of his 6 USSR Championships in 1931; the other 5 victories were in 1933, 1939, 1944, 1945 and 1952. He also won the Leningrad tournament of 1934, the Absolute Soviet Championship in 1941, and the Sverdlovsk super tournament of 1943. Other significant achievements include equal first with Salomon Flohr in Moscow 1935, 2nd at Moscow 1936 behind Jose Raul Capablanca, equal first with Capablanca at Nottingham 1936, 3rd at AVRO 1938, and first at Groningen 1946 before playing for the World Championship in 1948. He also won the Tchigorin Memorial tournament of 1947 and came equal first with David Bronstein in the Alekhine Memorial of 1956.
♦️ Today's game selected from 14th Chess Olympiad, Leipzig 1960 which Botvinnik won Lothar Schmid, the grandmaster of west Germany by a excellent central pawn game!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
💢 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Lothar Schmid
💢 Leipzig ol (Men) fin-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 7, Nov-03
💢 Benoni Defense: Old Benoni (A43)
♦️ Review this informative game and download it's PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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💢 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Lothar Schmid
💢 Leipzig ol (Men) fin-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 7, Nov-03
💢 Benoni Defense: Old Benoni (A43)
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💢 Leipzig ol (Men) fin-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 7, Nov-03
💢 Benoni Defense: Old Benoni (A43)
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