Winners of the USSR Team Championship at Volgograd, 1985 - the RSFSR. Left to right, Evgeny Sveshnikov, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Anna Akhsharumova, Andrei Kharitonov, Lev Psakhis, Sergei Dolmatov, Anatoly Vaisser, Vitaly Tseshkovsky.
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The USSR Young Masters' Championship in Dubna, 1970. Albert Kapengut (who later became the trainer of Boris Gelfand) v. Boris Gulko.The event was won by Rafael Vaganian, Vladimir Tukmakov and Viktor Kupreichik.
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🔸 Tal Memorial Blitz 2018
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🔸 Viswanathan Anand
🔸 Indian chess Grandmaster
♦️ Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988.
▪️ Full name: Anand or Anand Vishwanathan[1]
▪️ Country: India
▪️ Born: 11 December 1969 ) Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1988)
▪️ World Champion: 2000–2002 (FIDE) , 2007–2013
▪️ FIDE rating 2776 (March 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2817 (March 2011)
▪️ Ranking: No. 9 (October 2017)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 1 (April 2007)
♦️ Anand was born in 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but grew up in Chennai. His mother taught him to play chess, aged six.
♦️ As an Indian and an Asian chess player, he blazed a trail with a number of firsts, including in 1984 becoming the youngest Indian to earn the title of IM (aged 14), becoming the youngest ever Indian Champion at 16, becoming in 1987 the first Indian to win the World Junior Championship and India’s first grandmaster, and becoming India’s (and Asia’s) first World Champion. He was also the first World Champion since Robert James Fischer and the second since Max Euwe who did not originate from Russia or eastern Europe. Moreover, he was the first and only player to have won the putative world championship via knockout tournament, round robin tournament and traditional match play.
♦️ Yesterday Viswanathan Anand won Tal Memorial Rapid 2018 in Moscow!!
The 11th Tal Memorial is a rapid and blitz tournament taking place in Moscow 2nd-5th March 2018. A 10 player rapid single round robin on the first three days finished by Anand's Championship yerterday and today they are 14 players , 13 round playing blitz section Now.
💢 Live broadcasting Blitz Games 👇🏼👇🏼
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♦️ A memorable game by Anand from 11th Tal Memorable 2018👇🏼👇🏼
Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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🔸 Indian chess Grandmaster
♦️ Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988.
▪️ Full name: Anand or Anand Vishwanathan[1]
▪️ Country: India
▪️ Born: 11 December 1969 ) Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1988)
▪️ World Champion: 2000–2002 (FIDE) , 2007–2013
▪️ FIDE rating 2776 (March 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2817 (March 2011)
▪️ Ranking: No. 9 (October 2017)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 1 (April 2007)
♦️ Anand was born in 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but grew up in Chennai. His mother taught him to play chess, aged six.
♦️ As an Indian and an Asian chess player, he blazed a trail with a number of firsts, including in 1984 becoming the youngest Indian to earn the title of IM (aged 14), becoming the youngest ever Indian Champion at 16, becoming in 1987 the first Indian to win the World Junior Championship and India’s first grandmaster, and becoming India’s (and Asia’s) first World Champion. He was also the first World Champion since Robert James Fischer and the second since Max Euwe who did not originate from Russia or eastern Europe. Moreover, he was the first and only player to have won the putative world championship via knockout tournament, round robin tournament and traditional match play.
♦️ Yesterday Viswanathan Anand won Tal Memorial Rapid 2018 in Moscow!!
The 11th Tal Memorial is a rapid and blitz tournament taking place in Moscow 2nd-5th March 2018. A 10 player rapid single round robin on the first three days finished by Anand's Championship yerterday and today they are 14 players , 13 round playing blitz section Now.
💢 Live broadcasting Blitz Games 👇🏼👇🏼
https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2018-tal-memorial-blitz
♦️ A memorable game by Anand from 11th Tal Memorable 2018👇🏼👇🏼
Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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Mikhail Tal demonstrating his spectacular win over Oscar Panno from the 1958 Portorož Interzonal.
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Footage from the opening game of the first world championship match between Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow, March 15, 1960.
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📘 29.Qf4?
24-year-old Ukrainian GM Vitaliy Bernadsky has missed an opportunity.
(29.N×e6!! The beginning of a brilliant combination 29...f×e6 30.R×f8+! K×f8 31.Qf4+ Kg8 32.Qf6 Qc7 33.B×e6+ R×e6 34.Q×e6+ Qf7 35.Q×a6 +-)
29...Qc7 =
24-year-old Ukrainian GM Vitaliy Bernadsky has missed an opportunity.
(29.N×e6!! The beginning of a brilliant combination 29...f×e6 30.R×f8+! K×f8 31.Qf4+ Kg8 32.Qf6 Qc7 33.B×e6+ R×e6 34.Q×e6+ Qf7 35.Q×a6 +-)
29...Qc7 =
📘 29.Ne2??
(29.Re2 Ng4+ 30.Q×g4 B×g4 31.R×e1 Nf2 Black has an advantage but White is still alive.)
29...Ng4+ 30.Kh1 Be4! 0-1
If 31.Q×e4 Nhf2+
Or 31.Qc3 R×f1+
(29.Re2 Ng4+ 30.Q×g4 B×g4 31.R×e1 Nf2 Black has an advantage but White is still alive.)
29...Ng4+ 30.Kh1 Be4! 0-1
If 31.Q×e4 Nhf2+
Or 31.Qc3 R×f1+
📘 26.N×a8? Ng5!!
A surprising intermediate move by 15-year-old FM Arash Daghli.
27.Kg1
(27.Q×g5 Be4+ 28.Kg1 Qh3 -+)
(27.b5 Qd5+ 28.Kg1 Bh3 -+)
27...Ne5! 28.c6 b×c6 (better is 28...Qxd5) 29.Rc5 Nef3+ 30.Kh1 Be4 31.R×d3 Qh3 32.Rd8+ Kg7 33.Bg1 N×h2+ 34.Q×e4 Nhf3 0-1
A surprising intermediate move by 15-year-old FM Arash Daghli.
27.Kg1
(27.Q×g5 Be4+ 28.Kg1 Qh3 -+)
(27.b5 Qd5+ 28.Kg1 Bh3 -+)
27...Ne5! 28.c6 b×c6 (better is 28...Qxd5) 29.Rc5 Nef3+ 30.Kh1 Be4 31.R×d3 Qh3 32.Rd8+ Kg7 33.Bg1 N×h2+ 34.Q×e4 Nhf3 0-1
📘 32.Reg1?
Black has an advantage so White takes the risks to find the counterplay. (32.Ke3 R×d5 33.Ke3 It seems logical and Black has a long way to win the game).
32...R×d5! Deep calculation by Mohsen Sharbaf.
33.Rg8+ R×g8 34.R×g8 K×g8 35.K×d5 Kg7 36.b3 Kh6 37.Ke6 Kg5! 38.h6 b5 39.Kf7 K×f5! 40.Kg7 Ke6! 41.K×h7 Kf7 42.a4 f5 43.a×b5 a×b5 44.d4 e×d4 45.b4 d3 46.b×c5 d2 47.c6 d1=Q 48.c7 Qg4 0-1
Black has an advantage so White takes the risks to find the counterplay. (32.Ke3 R×d5 33.Ke3 It seems logical and Black has a long way to win the game).
32...R×d5! Deep calculation by Mohsen Sharbaf.
33.Rg8+ R×g8 34.R×g8 K×g8 35.K×d5 Kg7 36.b3 Kh6 37.Ke6 Kg5! 38.h6 b5 39.Kf7 K×f5! 40.Kg7 Ke6! 41.K×h7 Kf7 42.a4 f5 43.a×b5 a×b5 44.d4 e×d4 45.b4 d3 46.b×c5 d2 47.c6 d1=Q 48.c7 Qg4 0-1