πUnity Chess Multiple Choice 303
C: Bd1 β 4
πππππππ 44%
B: d5 β 3
πππππ 33%
A: Qc2 β 2
ππππ 22%
π₯ 9 people voted so far.
C: Bd1 β 4
πππππππ 44%
B: d5 β 3
πππππ 33%
A: Qc2 β 2
ππππ 22%
π₯ 9 people voted so far.
πUnity Chess Multiple Choice 304
C: Nb1 β 4
πππππππ 40%
A: Rc1 β 3
πππππ 30%
B: g4 β 3
πππππ 30%
π₯ 10 people voted so far.
C: Nb1 β 4
πππππππ 40%
A: Rc1 β 3
πππππ 30%
B: g4 β 3
πππππ 30%
π₯ 10 people voted so far.
USSR v. Yugoslavia match, Tbilisi, Nov 1973. Among the more famous participants: Nona Gaprindashvili (centre right) and (to her left) Tigran Petrosian. On Petrosian's left is GligoriΔ.
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Grandmaster Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland) v. Ulf Andersson (Sweden), from the 11th round at Wijk aan Zee, January 1971. White eventually won this game in 104 moves.
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A clock simultaneous display with Soviet grandmasters Lev Psakhis and Garry Kasparov. USSR, mid-1980s.
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Paul Petrovich Keres (1916-1975) was born in Narva, Estonia, where he would reside his entire life. In 1938, he won the famous AVRO tournament in the Netherlands. He won the Soviet chess championship 3 times. He only lost 1 chess match in his life, to Boris Spassky in 1965.
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Brilliant colour footage from the last round of the 1978 Chess Olympiad, Buenos Aires, November 11, 1978.
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The FIDE Candidates' Tournament starts on March 10. Levon Aronian and Ding Liren will face each other in round 1. The other pairings are Vladimir Kramnik vs Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and Fabiano Caruana vs Wesley So. Prize money is $515,000.
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πΈAeroflot Open Moscow 2018
πΈRound 4
βͺοΈAlekseenko,Kirill (2609)
β«οΈYuffa,Daniil (2521)
πΈ1-0
πΈRound 4
βͺοΈAlekseenko,Kirill (2609)
β«οΈYuffa,Daniil (2521)
πΈ1-0
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πΈAeroflot Open Moscow 2018
πΈRound 5
βͺοΈTabatabaei,M.amin (2577)
β«οΈAravindh,Chithambaram VR (2617)
πΈ1-0
πΈRound 5
βͺοΈTabatabaei,M.amin (2577)
β«οΈAravindh,Chithambaram VR (2617)
πΈ1-0
πΉ Nigel Short
πΉ Chess Grandmaster and Columnist
β¦οΈ Nigel David Short MBE is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from January 1988 to July 1989.
πΉ Full name: Nigel David Short
πΉ Country: England
πΉ Born: 1 June 1965 (age 52)Leigh, England
πΉ Title: Grandmaster
πΉ FIDE rating: 2681 (February 2018)
πΉ (No. 55 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
πΉ Peak rating: 2712 (April 2004)
β¦οΈ Short was born 1 June 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire. He grew up in Atherton, going to the St Philip's Primary School on Bolton Old Road. He studied at the independent Bolton School and Leigh College. He was a member both of Atherton Chess Club, which was founded by his father, David, and later of Bolton Chess Club,[2] which had initially rejected him, aged seven, for being too young.
β¦οΈ Short has written chess columns and book reviews for the British newspapers The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Spectator. He wrote for The Sunday Telegraph for a decade and for The Guardian between 2005 and 19 October 2006. He reported on the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 in San Luis, Argentina, for the ChessBase website. He began a new column, "Short Stories", for New in Chess magazine in January 2011. During the World Chess Championship 2013 he wrote a series of articles for The Indian Express. In 2014 he began writing a column for the Financial Times, interviewing Sol Campbell in the first article.
β¦οΈ A memorable and short game by Nigel ShortππΌππΌ
βͺοΈ Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov
βͺοΈ Game (thematic) (1993), London (England), rd 3
βͺοΈ King's Gambit: Accepted. Bishop's Gambit Bryan Countergambit (C33)
β¦οΈReview and download PGN fileππΌππΌ
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πΉ Chess Grandmaster and Columnist
β¦οΈ Nigel David Short MBE is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from January 1988 to July 1989.
πΉ Full name: Nigel David Short
πΉ Country: England
πΉ Born: 1 June 1965 (age 52)Leigh, England
πΉ Title: Grandmaster
πΉ FIDE rating: 2681 (February 2018)
πΉ (No. 55 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
πΉ Peak rating: 2712 (April 2004)
β¦οΈ Short was born 1 June 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire. He grew up in Atherton, going to the St Philip's Primary School on Bolton Old Road. He studied at the independent Bolton School and Leigh College. He was a member both of Atherton Chess Club, which was founded by his father, David, and later of Bolton Chess Club,[2] which had initially rejected him, aged seven, for being too young.
β¦οΈ Short has written chess columns and book reviews for the British newspapers The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Spectator. He wrote for The Sunday Telegraph for a decade and for The Guardian between 2005 and 19 October 2006. He reported on the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 in San Luis, Argentina, for the ChessBase website. He began a new column, "Short Stories", for New in Chess magazine in January 2011. During the World Chess Championship 2013 he wrote a series of articles for The Indian Express. In 2014 he began writing a column for the Financial Times, interviewing Sol Campbell in the first article.
β¦οΈ A memorable and short game by Nigel ShortππΌππΌ
βͺοΈ Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov
βͺοΈ Game (thematic) (1993), London (England), rd 3
βͺοΈ King's Gambit: Accepted. Bishop's Gambit Bryan Countergambit (C33)
β¦οΈReview and download PGN fileππΌππΌ
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