🔸 Paul Keres
🔸 Chess Grandmaster and Writer

♦️ Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. Keres narrowly missed a chance at a world championship match on five occasions.

🔹 Full name: Paul Keres
🔹 Country: Estonia Soviet Union
🔹 Born: January 7, 1916 Narva, Russian empire
🔹 Died: June 5, 1975 (aged 59) Helsinki, Finland
🔹 Title: Grandmaster
🔹 Peak rating: 2615 (July 1971)

♦️ Paul Keres was born in Narva, Estonia, where he would reside his entire life. He was very active in correspondence chess throughout his youth, and soon began to make a name for himself at over-the-board play as well with a series of tournament victories culminating with a tie for first at AVRO (1938). Keres was thrice Soviet Champion, in 1947 [rusbase-1], 1950 [rusbase-2], and 1951 [rusbase-3]. In 1948, Keres participated in the World Championship tournament to determine a successor to Alexander Alekhine, finishing joint third. This would turn out to be the only opportunity Keres would ever have to play for the world title--he finished second ex aequo or outright four times in the five Candidates' tournaments, from 1950 to 1962 inclusive, but never won.

♦️ A memorable game by Keres against Alexnder Alekhine which have won in 23 moves by a tactical game!!
This game is known "Keresene" in chessgames.com site.👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Paul Keres vs Alexander Alekhine
▪️ Margate (1937), ENG, rd 7, Apr-07
▪️ Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Modern Steinitz Defense (C71)

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▪️ Paul Keres vs Alexander Alekhine
▪️ Margate (1937), ENG, rd 7, Apr-07
▪️ Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Modern Steinitz Defense (C71)

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▪️ Paul Keres - Alexander Alekhine, Margate (1937)
▪️ PGN format

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⚪️#279 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Nielsen,Peter Heine (2593)
🔸Rozentalis,Eduardas (2588)
🔸Bundesliga 2001

📕 25.Re5!
White has enough compensation for a pawn due to the black bad bishop on b7.
25.Bxd5+ Bxd5 26.Qxd5+ Black has gotten rid of his bad bishop but White is slightly better here.
25.c6? for what? 25...Bxc6 26.Bxd5+ Bxd5 27.Qxd5+ Kh8=

⚫️#280 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Zeller,Frank (2442)
🔸Haskamp,Stephan (2310)
🔸Bundesliga 2001

📕 13...b3!
An excellent jolt, reminding white that he does not possess the most important file! The pawn sacrifice has exposed White's king.

⚪️#281 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Grischuk,Alexander (2671)
🔸Kasimdzhanov,Rustam (2695)
🔸Corus Wijk aan Zee 2002

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 281

A: Qe3 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

C: Rd1 – 2
👍👍👍 25%

B: R×c8 – 1
👍 13%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#282 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gross,David2 (2463)
🔸Troyke,Christian (2347)
🔸Bundesliga 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 282

A: Qd2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

B: Nd2 – 2
👍👍👍 25%

C: e5 – 1
👍 13%

👥 8 people voted so far.

Lasker, Rubinstein, Tarrasch, Schlechter, Janowsky, Berlin 1918.

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The oldest photograph of chessplayers may be from William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877). He took at least 10 pictures of chessplayers. These photos are of photographer Antoine Claudet (1797-1867) and Talbot's assistant, Nicolaas Henneman (1813-1898), taken between 1840 and 1847.

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If I am to choose one quality clip that illustrates best Anatoly Karpov's nonchalance in the mid-1970s, this bit of rare footage from a March 1975 simultaneous exhibition would be the one.

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Footage of Bobby Fischer arriving in Reykjavik on July 4, 1972. There are various versions of this out there but this is the clearest I've seen.

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