14...Bd7!
Karpov intends to exchange his passive knight for the good one on d5.
14...Bxd5? 15.cxd5! +/-.
14...f5? 15.Bg5! A typical move in the English symmetrical variation. 15...h6 16.Bxe7! Nxe7 17.Qa4+/-.
Karpov intends to exchange his passive knight for the good one on d5.
14...Bxd5? 15.cxd5! +/-.
14...f5? 15.Bg5! A typical move in the English symmetrical variation. 15...h6 16.Bxe7! Nxe7 17.Qa4+/-.
📕18.Rb1!
Black is prevented from disrupting the white center with ...b5-b4, putting a pawn alongside his furthest advanced pawn in thematic style, when after the capture c3xb4 he has ...Bxf3 followed by ...Qxd4+. He is also restrained from utilizing his queenside pawn majority with ...a7-a5 and ...b5-b4 when he might have created a passed pawn. Black's cause is greatly hampered by the fact that his king's bishop is buried on g7: White's own dark-squared bishop has no rival when it comes to restraining any counterplay on the queenside.
Black is prevented from disrupting the white center with ...b5-b4, putting a pawn alongside his furthest advanced pawn in thematic style, when after the capture c3xb4 he has ...Bxf3 followed by ...Qxd4+. He is also restrained from utilizing his queenside pawn majority with ...a7-a5 and ...b5-b4 when he might have created a passed pawn. Black's cause is greatly hampered by the fact that his king's bishop is buried on g7: White's own dark-squared bishop has no rival when it comes to restraining any counterplay on the queenside.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 221
B: Ne7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 46%
C: e5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 31%
A: Na7 – 3
👍👍👍👍 23%
👥 13 people voted so far.
B: Ne7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 46%
C: e5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 31%
A: Na7 – 3
👍👍👍👍 23%
👥 13 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 222
B: Bd7 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
A: Qf6 – 3
👍👍 20%
C: e6 – 3
👍👍 20%
👥 15 people voted so far.
B: Bd7 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
A: Qf6 – 3
👍👍 20%
C: e6 – 3
👍👍 20%
👥 15 people voted so far.
Moscow, 1st November 1974. Anatoly Karpov in play v. Viktor Korchnoi in the 18th game of their World Championship Candidates' final match.
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Riga, 60 years ago today, 14th January 1958. David Bronstein faces Mikhail Tal in the 2nd round of the 25th USSR-ch final.
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🔹 Wilhelm Steinitz
🔹 American-Austrian chess Master
♦️Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first undisputed World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894.
He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.
🔸 Country: Kingdom of Bohemia (Austrian Empire) United States
🔸 Born: May 17, 1836 Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia
🔸 Died: August 12, 1900 (aged 64) New York City, New York, United States
🔸 World Champion: 1886–1894 (undisputed; with earlier dates debated)
♦️ Wilhelm Steinitz was the first official World Champion of chess.
♦️He was recognized as the world's leading player, and considered to be the world champion by many, after he defeated the then-acknowledged number one chess player in the world (now that Paul Morphy had retired), Adolf Anderssen, in a match in 1866 which he won by 8-6. However, it was not until his victory in the Steinitz - Zukertort World Championship Match (1886) – where he sat beside a US flag - that he was recognised as the first undisputed world chess champion. He successfully defended his title three times in the Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Match (1889), the Steinitz - Gunsberg World Championship Match (1890), and in the Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892). In 1894, Emanuel Lasker won the crown from Steinitz by winning the Lasker - Steinitz World Championship (1894) and retained it by winning the Lasker - Steinitz World Championship Rematch (1896).
Steinitz was an extremely successful match player. Between 1860 and 1897, he played 36 matches, winning every serious match with the exception of his two matches against Lasker. Some of the prominent players of the day that he defeated in match play other than in his world championship matches included Max Lange, Serafino Dubois, Frederic Deacon, Dionisio M Martinez, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Anderssen, Augustus Mongredien, Henry Edward Bird, Johannes Zukertort, George Henry Mackenzie, and Celso Golmayo Zupide.
♦️ A memorable game by Steinitz with nice combination 👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Wilhelm Steinitz vs Mikhail Chigorin
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892), Havana CUB, rd 4, Jan-07
▪️ Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65)
♦️Review and download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼
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🔹 American-Austrian chess Master
♦️Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first undisputed World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894.
He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.
🔸 Country: Kingdom of Bohemia (Austrian Empire) United States
🔸 Born: May 17, 1836 Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia
🔸 Died: August 12, 1900 (aged 64) New York City, New York, United States
🔸 World Champion: 1886–1894 (undisputed; with earlier dates debated)
♦️ Wilhelm Steinitz was the first official World Champion of chess.
♦️He was recognized as the world's leading player, and considered to be the world champion by many, after he defeated the then-acknowledged number one chess player in the world (now that Paul Morphy had retired), Adolf Anderssen, in a match in 1866 which he won by 8-6. However, it was not until his victory in the Steinitz - Zukertort World Championship Match (1886) – where he sat beside a US flag - that he was recognised as the first undisputed world chess champion. He successfully defended his title three times in the Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Match (1889), the Steinitz - Gunsberg World Championship Match (1890), and in the Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892). In 1894, Emanuel Lasker won the crown from Steinitz by winning the Lasker - Steinitz World Championship (1894) and retained it by winning the Lasker - Steinitz World Championship Rematch (1896).
Steinitz was an extremely successful match player. Between 1860 and 1897, he played 36 matches, winning every serious match with the exception of his two matches against Lasker. Some of the prominent players of the day that he defeated in match play other than in his world championship matches included Max Lange, Serafino Dubois, Frederic Deacon, Dionisio M Martinez, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Anderssen, Augustus Mongredien, Henry Edward Bird, Johannes Zukertort, George Henry Mackenzie, and Celso Golmayo Zupide.
♦️ A memorable game by Steinitz with nice combination 👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Wilhelm Steinitz vs Mikhail Chigorin
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892), Havana CUB, rd 4, Jan-07
▪️ Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65)
♦️Review and download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼
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▪️ Wilhelm Steinitz vs Mikhail Chigorin
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892), Havana CUB, rd 4, Jan-07
▪️ Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65)
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▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892), Havana CUB, rd 4, Jan-07
▪️ Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65)
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