📘 27...Nf4??
Nigel Short's blunder in a worse position.
28.Rb8+ 1-0
If 28...R×b8 29.Q×b8+ Kh7 30.Q×f4
Valentina Gunina has won twice the Women's European Individual Chess Championship (2012, 2014) and three times the Russian Women's Championship (2011, 2013, 2014).
Nigel Short's blunder in a worse position.
28.Rb8+ 1-0
If 28...R×b8 29.Q×b8+ Kh7 30.Q×f4
Valentina Gunina has won twice the Women's European Individual Chess Championship (2012, 2014) and three times the Russian Women's Championship (2011, 2013, 2014).
📕 29.Ra4!
A creative move. White is intending to fight for the center by playing d4. Otherwise, Black can gradually put more pressure on the white's d-pawn.
A creative move. White is intending to fight for the center by playing d4. Otherwise, Black can gradually put more pressure on the white's d-pawn.
📕 18.g4!
Creates a surprising impression. Black's knight will pour into good squares, but the question remains - What will they achieve there? In a sense part of it is about timing and forcing the issue. Rather than maneuver and open a file at leisure, black is obliged to do it NOW, and although the f-file and the squares f4 and h4 look scary, the h-file counts too, as might the f5 square, a less visually 'in your face' outpost, but an outpost just the same. In the game, white holds the king-side and wins on the queenside. I feel that black needed at least to put a higher premium on disruption.
Creates a surprising impression. Black's knight will pour into good squares, but the question remains - What will they achieve there? In a sense part of it is about timing and forcing the issue. Rather than maneuver and open a file at leisure, black is obliged to do it NOW, and although the f-file and the squares f4 and h4 look scary, the h-file counts too, as might the f5 square, a less visually 'in your face' outpost, but an outpost just the same. In the game, white holds the king-side and wins on the queenside. I feel that black needed at least to put a higher premium on disruption.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 285
A: Be3 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
B: g4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍 42%
C: Qd3 – 1
👍 8%
👥 12 people voted so far.
A: Be3 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
B: g4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍 42%
C: Qd3 – 1
👍 8%
👥 12 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 286
C: g4 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
B: Qf3 – 6
👍👍👍👍 32%
A: g3 – 1
👍 5%
👥 19 people voted so far.
C: g4 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
B: Qf3 – 6
👍👍👍👍 32%
A: g3 – 1
👍 5%
👥 19 people voted so far.
In 1894, world champion (1894-1921) Emanuel Lasker (1867-1941) had gastric fever and a broken blood vessel while in England and almost died. His medical doctor older brother, Dr. Berthold Lasker (1860-1928), also a chess master, traveled from Berlin to England and saved his life.
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Vladimir Tukmakov, in play v. William Lombardy, Amsterdam IBM Tournament, Rd. 9, 26th July 1974.
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🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Ju,Wenjun (2572)
⚫️Gelfand,Boris (2697)
🔸0-1
🔸Round 8
⚪️Ju,Wenjun (2572)
⚫️Gelfand,Boris (2697)
🔸0-1
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🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Gunina,Valentina (2502)
⚫️Short,Nigel D (2681)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 9
⚪️Gunina,Valentina (2502)
⚫️Short,Nigel D (2681)
🔸1-0
🔹 Richard Réti
🔹 Chess Grandmaster and Composer
♦️ Richard Réti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess.
▪️ Full name: Richard Réti
▪️ Country: Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
▪️ Born: 28 May 1889 Bösing, Austria-Hungary (now Pezinok, Slovakia)
▪️ Died: 6 June 1929 (aged 40) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
♦️ Richard Réti was born in 1889 in Bösing. At the age of 12, he had already submitted a chess problem to the chess column in Über Land und Meer run by Hermann von Gottschall. Von Gottschall advised him to continue working on his chess. In 1903, the then 13-year old Réti was introduced to Carl Schlechter who remarked "for his age, this is certainly exceptional". He went on to fare well at the 2nd Hungarian National tournament in Székesfehérvár, 1907.(Edo) Réti's interest in chess was dampened following some disappointing tournament results, although he won smaller events in Vienna 1909 and the 2nd Trebitsch Memorial in 1910.(Edo) His main interests then became mathematics and, to some extent, physics. He was about to finish his doctorate when World War I broke out. Réti was assigned to clerical work due to his "somewhat weak constitution".
♦️ A memorable game by Reti against Bogoljubov in New York 1924 wich known "Richard VIII" in chessgames.com site !! 👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Richard Reti vs Efim Bogoljubov
🔹 New York (1924), New York, NY USA, rd 12, Apr-02
🔹 English Opening: Agincourt Defense. Bogoljubow Defense (A13)
♦️ Review and download full annotated PGN file by Dr. Alekhine👇🏼👇🏼
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🔹 Chess Grandmaster and Composer
♦️ Richard Réti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess.
▪️ Full name: Richard Réti
▪️ Country: Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
▪️ Born: 28 May 1889 Bösing, Austria-Hungary (now Pezinok, Slovakia)
▪️ Died: 6 June 1929 (aged 40) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
♦️ Richard Réti was born in 1889 in Bösing. At the age of 12, he had already submitted a chess problem to the chess column in Über Land und Meer run by Hermann von Gottschall. Von Gottschall advised him to continue working on his chess. In 1903, the then 13-year old Réti was introduced to Carl Schlechter who remarked "for his age, this is certainly exceptional". He went on to fare well at the 2nd Hungarian National tournament in Székesfehérvár, 1907.(Edo) Réti's interest in chess was dampened following some disappointing tournament results, although he won smaller events in Vienna 1909 and the 2nd Trebitsch Memorial in 1910.(Edo) His main interests then became mathematics and, to some extent, physics. He was about to finish his doctorate when World War I broke out. Réti was assigned to clerical work due to his "somewhat weak constitution".
♦️ A memorable game by Reti against Bogoljubov in New York 1924 wich known "Richard VIII" in chessgames.com site !! 👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Richard Reti vs Efim Bogoljubov
🔹 New York (1924), New York, NY USA, rd 12, Apr-02
🔹 English Opening: Agincourt Defense. Bogoljubow Defense (A13)
♦️ Review and download full annotated PGN file by Dr. Alekhine👇🏼👇🏼
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