From Sep 1 to Sep 4, 1945, USA played the USSR in a radio match. It was the 1st international sports event since the outbreak of World War II. It was the 1st match to be played by radio telegraphy. USSR won the match by the overwhelming score of 15 1/2 points to 4 1/2 points.

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Footage from the start of the Bobby Fischer v Tigran Petrosian Candidates final match, September 30, 1971.

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Amsterdam, 28th June 1977. In the opening round of the IBM tournament, Lubosh Kavalek takes on his compatriot, the legendary Sammy Reshevsky. The game was drawn in 21 moves.

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In March 1999, Maurice Ashley was the first Black chessplayer in the US to become a grandmaster. In a March 29, 1999 interview, he talked about what it meant to him and those around him.

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The final match for the world championship 1999 in Las Vegas Hakobyan - Khalifman.

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🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Lorparizangeneh,Shahin (2484)
⚫️Amonatov,Farrukh (2624)
🔸1-0

🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2480)
⚫️Sedaghati,Mehrdad (2215)
🔸0-1

▪️ Eduard Gufeld
▪️ Chess Grandmaster And Author

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▪️ Eduard Gufeld
▪️ Chess Grandmaster And Author

♦️Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author.

🔹 Full name: Eduard Gufeld
🔹 Country: Soviet Union United States
🔹 Born: March 19, 1936 Kiev, Soviet Union
🔹 Died: September 23, 2002 Los Angeles, United States
🔹 Title: Grandmaster
🔹 Peak rating: 2570 (January 1977)

♦️Gufeld began participating in chess tournaments in 1953 and won the junior championship of Ukraine the following year. He became an International Master in 1964, and became an International Grandmaster in 1967. In 1977 his Elo rating was 2570, and ranked 16th in the world.
He moved to Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, where he coached Maia Chiburdanidze, who became the youngest women's world chess champion in 1978.[2] After the fall of the Soviet Union, he emigrated to the United States.
He started the FIDE Committee on Chess Art and Exhibition.
Gufeld was one of the most prolific authors in all of chess, writing over 80 chess books.

♦️ A memorable game by Eduard Gufeld against Smyslov which known "Taking a Lot of Guf" in chessgames.com site 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Vasily Smyslov vs Eduard Gufeld
🔸 Moscow Spartakiade ;MAINB (1967)
🔸 English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. King's Indian Formation (A15)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼


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▪️ Vasily Smyslov - Eduard Gufeld, Moscow 1967
▪️ PGN format

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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Triapishko,Alexandr (2530)
⚫️Piorun,Kacper (2659)
🔸0-1

📘 35.Q×d5?
White's miscalculation. When your pieces are hanging, grabbing a pawn is not logical.
(38.Q×b6 Qd1+ 39.Kg2 Qc2+ —->Q×f5 -+)
38...Kh7 39.Q×b6 Qd1+ 40.Kg2 Qd5+ 41.Kg1 K×h6 -+

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Dragnev,Valentin (2461)
⚫️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2594)
🔸0-1

📘 In this position, Black could have forced a draw by 49...Ra1+ 50.Ke2 Ra2+, but Parham is smart enough to try his only winning chance.
49...g5+! 50.h×g5 Ra1+ 51.Ke2 Ra2+ 52.Kd3? (52.Ke1=) Rd2+ 53.Kc3 Rd1! 54.Re4 h4 -+

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Karthikeyan,Murali (2585)
⚫️Artemiev,Vladislav (2697)
🔸0-1

📘 Black needed to swap a pair of rooks to win the game.
34.Kg2?
(34.Rge6+ or h4)
34...Rg5+! 35.R×g5 K×d6 -+