📕 13.Ne1!
The correct decision. White immediately swaps the nagging knight.(13.Qa4+?! Qd7 14.Qxc4 Nf4 is dangerous for White to say the least.) 13...Nxb2 14.Bxb2 Rxb2 15.Bxc4 Rb4 16.Qe2 Bg7 17.Nc2+/-.

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📕 17.g4!
Preparing to "welcome" Black's king in the event of 0-0.
17...Ba6 (17...Nxg4 18.Rg1; 17...h6 18.Ne5! Qxd4 19.Nxf7!+/-) 18.Qe5 0-0 19.g5 Nh5 20.Qe4 g6 21.Qxc6+/-.

Caruana Holds Vs Carlsen As Grenke Chess Classic Takes Off.

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GRENKE Chess Classic Impressions Round 1.

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Round 1 at the Grenke Chess Classic in Germany: Vitiugov beat Bluebaum, all other games drawn (Naiditsch-Vachier_Lagrave, Caruana-Carlsen, Anand-Yifan Hou, and Meier-Aronian.). The event is sponsored by Grenke Leasing for the 5th year in a row. The tournament goes to April 9.

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🔹 GRENKE Chess Classic 2018
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Another photo from the 4th Georgian (Open) Championship, which was held in Kutaisi in the spring of 1941. Nikolai Sorokin v. Viktor Goglidze with, behind, left to right: ?, Genrikh Kasparian, Vladas Mikėnas, Akaki Pirtskhalava.

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Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has appeared on postage stamps from Armenia, Cambodia, Central Africa, Chad, Comores, Congo, Djibouti, Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, North Korea, Solomon Islands, St. Vincent, Surinam, Togo, Uganda, USSR, and Vietnam.

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The 5th round of the 47th USSR-ch (Minsk, 1979). Tamaz Giorgadze faces Yuri Razuvaev, White won the game in 63 moves.

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St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) is the patron saint of chess. She saved a soldier’s soul by teaching him chess. She was canonized in 1622.

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Excellent 1948 German footage of a simultaneous exhibition by Vasily Smyslov in Berlin.

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