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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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Alekseenko,Kirill (2609)
⚫️Yuffa,Daniil (2521)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 4
⚪️Alekseenko,Kirill (2609)
⚫️Yuffa,Daniil (2521)
🔸1-0
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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.amin (2577)
⚫️Aravindh,Chithambaram VR (2617)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 5
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.amin (2577)
⚫️Aravindh,Chithambaram VR (2617)
🔸1-0
🔹 Nigel Short
🔹 Chess Grandmaster and Columnist
♦️ 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.
🔹 Full name: Nigel David Short
🔹 Country: England
🔹 Born: 1 June 1965 (age 52)Leigh, England
🔹 Title: Grandmaster
🔹 FIDE rating: 2681 (February 2018)
🔹 (No. 55 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
🔹 Peak rating: 2712 (April 2004)
♦️ 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.
♦️ 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.
♦️ A memorable and short game by Nigel Short👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov
▪️ Game (thematic) (1993), London (England), rd 3
▪️ King's Gambit: Accepted. Bishop's Gambit Bryan Countergambit (C33)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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🔹 Chess Grandmaster and Columnist
♦️ 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.
🔹 Full name: Nigel David Short
🔹 Country: England
🔹 Born: 1 June 1965 (age 52)Leigh, England
🔹 Title: Grandmaster
🔹 FIDE rating: 2681 (February 2018)
🔹 (No. 55 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
🔹 Peak rating: 2712 (April 2004)
♦️ 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.
♦️ 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.
♦️ A memorable and short game by Nigel Short👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov
▪️ Game (thematic) (1993), London (England), rd 3
▪️ King's Gambit: Accepted. Bishop's Gambit Bryan Countergambit (C33)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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📘 27.R×g7+!!
A finishing sacrifice by Alireza Firouzja.
(27...K×g7 28.N×e6+
A)28...Kf7 29.Nd5! K×e6 30.Qg4+ Kf7 31.Rf1 Nf6 32.R×f6#
B)28...Kh8 29.Bd4+ Kg8 30.Rg1+ Kf7 31.Rg7+ K×e6 32.Qg4#)
28.Rg1 B×c3 29.R×g7+ K×g7 30.b×c3 Nf8 31.Qg4+ Kf7 32.Bh6 1-0
In January 2016, he won the Iranian national championship at age 12.
A finishing sacrifice by Alireza Firouzja.
(27...K×g7 28.N×e6+
A)28...Kf7 29.Nd5! K×e6 30.Qg4+ Kf7 31.Rf1 Nf6 32.R×f6#
B)28...Kh8 29.Bd4+ Kg8 30.Rg1+ Kf7 31.Rg7+ K×e6 32.Qg4#)
28.Rg1 B×c3 29.R×g7+ K×g7 30.b×c3 Nf8 31.Qg4+ Kf7 32.Bh6 1-0
In January 2016, he won the Iranian national championship at age 12.
📘 26.Qf1??
Fedoseev's blunder.
(26.g6+ Ke7 27.Qf1= Now, The diagonal of the bishop e7 is closed.)
26.Nc5+ 27.Ka3 R×h5! 28.Rg1
(28.g×f6 R×h1 29.Q×h1 Qa6+ 30.Kb4 Qa4#)
28...Qc2 29.b4 a5! 30.g×f6 a×b4+ 31.c×b4 Qa4+ 32.Kb2 Qd4+ -+ Black is completely winning.
Vladimir Fedoseev was the runner-up in 2018 World Rapid Chess Championship.
Fedoseev's blunder.
(26.g6+ Ke7 27.Qf1= Now, The diagonal of the bishop e7 is closed.)
26.Nc5+ 27.Ka3 R×h5! 28.Rg1
(28.g×f6 R×h1 29.Q×h1 Qa6+ 30.Kb4 Qa4#)
28...Qc2 29.b4 a5! 30.g×f6 a×b4+ 31.c×b4 Qa4+ 32.Kb2 Qd4+ -+ Black is completely winning.
Vladimir Fedoseev was the runner-up in 2018 World Rapid Chess Championship.
📘 31.B×g6?
In mutual time trouble, Andreikin made a blunder.
31...R×f4?
[31...f×g6 32.R×f8
(32.Q×e6+ Q×e6 33.R×e6 Rf×f4 34.g×f4 Kf7 -+)
32...K×f8 33.Qf6+ Bf7 34.Re7 Kg8! 35.R×a7 Qd5 -+]
32.Bh7+! K×h7 33.Q×h5 Kg7 34.Qg5+ Kh7 35.Qh5+ Kg7 36.Qg5+ =
In mutual time trouble, Andreikin made a blunder.
31...R×f4?
[31...f×g6 32.R×f8
(32.Q×e6+ Q×e6 33.R×e6 Rf×f4 34.g×f4 Kf7 -+)
32...K×f8 33.Qf6+ Bf7 34.Re7 Kg8! 35.R×a7 Qd5 -+]
32.Bh7+! K×h7 33.Q×h5 Kg7 34.Qg5+ Kh7 35.Qh5+ Kg7 36.Qg5+ =