📕 32.g4!
Tal clears the g3-square for his knight. The manner in which he contains Black's king-side aspirations and then organizes the installation of his knight to f5 to reveal his opponent's aggression as primarily weakening is an excellent model. 32...Bd7 33.Rf2 Rf6 34.Kg1 R6f7 35.Nf1 Qd6 36.Ng3 Re8 37.Nf5 Bxf5 38.gxf5-/+
Tal clears the g3-square for his knight. The manner in which he contains Black's king-side aspirations and then organizes the installation of his knight to f5 to reveal his opponent's aggression as primarily weakening is an excellent model. 32...Bd7 33.Rf2 Rf6 34.Kg1 R6f7 35.Nf1 Qd6 36.Ng3 Re8 37.Nf5 Bxf5 38.gxf5-/+
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 339
anonymous poll
A: f4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
C: Bb5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
B: Rad1 – 1
👍 13%
👥 8 people voted so far.
anonymous poll
A: f4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
C: Bb5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
B: Rad1 – 1
👍 13%
👥 8 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 340
A: Qf3 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
B: a5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 30%
C: B×d6 – 2
👍👍👍 20%
👥 10 people voted so far.
A: Qf3 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
B: a5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 30%
C: B×d6 – 2
👍👍👍 20%
👥 10 people voted so far.
After 7 rds at the Candidates, it is Caruana ahead with 5 out of 7. In Rd 7, Caruana beat Aronian & Karjakin beat So. The other games were drawn. Mamedyarev is in 2nd with 4.5. So & Aronian are in last place with 2.5. In Rd 8, Caruana plays So and Mamedyarov plays Karjakin.
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December 1979 - the 8th round of the 47th USSR Championship final in Minsk. Watching the game Garry Kasparov v. Yuri Razuvaev are Tamaz Giorgadze and Yuri Balashov.
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Two World Champions: Tigran Petrosian & Nona Gaprindashvili, pictured outside the National Youth Palace in Tbilisi. Early 1960s.
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In 1926, GM Carlos Torre (1905-1978), while playing in a Chicago tourney, had a nervous breakdown after receiving 2 letters. The 1st one said that his chess teaching post at a Mexican university was no longer available. The next letter was that his fiancee married someone else.
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