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▪️ Savielly Tartakower
▪️ French-Polish journalist and chess Grandmaster

♦️ Savielly Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster.
He was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1920s and 1930s whose books remain popular even today.
Tartakower is remembered for his sharp wit and aphorisms.

🔸 Full name: Ksawery Tartakower
🔸 Country: Poland France
🔸 Born: 22 February 1887 Rostov-on-Don, Russia
🔸 Died: 4 February 1956 (aged 68) Paris, France
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (1950)

♦️ Tartakower won Vienna (1923), Hastings (1926/27), London (1927) (shared with Aron Nimzowitsch), Hastings (1927/28), Scarborough (1929) (shared with Harold Saunders), Liege (1930), and Hastings (1945/46). He also won the Polish championship twice (1935 and 1937) and the French championship at age 63, in 1950. In the 1930s Tartakower represented Poland in six chess olympiads, and France in 1950, winning three individual medals (gold in 1931 and bronze in 1933 and 1935), as well as five team medals (gold in 1930, two silver in 1931 and 1939, and two bronze in 1935 and 1937).

♦️ A memorable game by Tartakower 👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Savielly Tartakower vs Akiba Rubinstein
🔹 Moscow (1925), Moscow URS, rd 20, Dec-06
🔹 Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid (C28)

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🔹 Savielly Tartakower vs Akiba Rubinstein
🔹 Moscow (1925), Moscow URS, rd 20, Dec-06
🔹 Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid (C28)

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🔹 Savielly Tartakower - Akiba Rubinstein, Moscow 1925
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🔸Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Lazarne Vajda,Szidonia (2362)
⚫️Duda,Jan-Krzysztof (2724)
🔸0-1

📘 48...N×c4!
A clever sacrifice by 20 years old Polish GM.
49.K×c4 Ke4 50.Kb3 K×e3 51.Nb4 f4 52.Nc2+ Kf2 53.g×f4 g3 54.f5 g2 0-1

🔸Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Rapport,Richard (2700)
⚫️Gandrud,Vegar Koi (2346)
🔸1-0

📘 66.Qf4!+
Rapport's Precise calculation in order to exchange the queens.
66...Q×f4+ 67.g×f4 Ke4 68.Bd1 d5 69.Bc2+ Ke3 70.B×g6 d4 71.f5 d3 72.f6 b3 73.f7 b2 74.B×d3! 1-0

🔸Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Aronian,Levon (2797)
⚫️Hoolt,Sarah (2400)
🔸1-0

📘 39.R×h6!+
A beautiful tactical shot by Aronian!
39...R×h6 40.Nf7+ Kh7 41.N×h6 Bf3
(41...g×h6 Rd7+ 42.Kh8 Q×h6#)
42.Nf7 Rf8 43.Qh4+ 1-0

🔸Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Short,Nigel D (2681)
⚫️Cawdery,Daniel (2446)
🔸1-0

📘 17...R×b2??
South African international master has miscalculated.
18.K×b2 Rb8+ 19.Ka1 K×g7
(19...Nb4 Certainly, Black in his calculations before Rxb2 had thought this move is winning but...
20.Q×b4! Q×b4 21.B×e5 f6 22.B×b8 +-)
20.Nc3 Qa3 21.Rb1 1-0

⚪️#261(Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Granda Zuniga,Julio E (2420)
🔸Boensch,Uwe (2475)
🔸Capablanca mem-A 1986

📘 9.Ng5!
White intends to exchange the strong central knight on e4 and indirectly attack the black-d5 pawn.
9.Na3? Nxc5 =/+.
9.Be3 allows Black to seize the center by playing 9...e5.

⚪️#262 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Lalic,Bogdan (2501)
🔸Conquest,Stuart (2563)
🔸Redbus KO Southend 2001

📘 35.d5!
A great idea. White will show that in addition to the two advanced passed pawns, there is a third important factor in the position. The chance to use the presence of opposite-colored bishops to assist in building an attack on black's king.

⚪️#263 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Georgiev,Vladimir (2592)
🔸Aleksic,Nenad (2417)
🔸Cutro 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 263

A: Bb5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%

C: Qa4 – 4
👍👍👍👍 33%

B: b4 – 1
👍 8%

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚪️#264 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2797)
🔸Gelfand,Boris (2712)
🔸 Astana 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 264

A: a5 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

B: e4 – 4
👍👍👍 29%

C: B×f6 – 1
👍 7%

👥 14 people voted so far.