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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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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▪️ Viktor Korchnoi
▪️ Soviet-Swiss Chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
🔸 Full name: Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
🔸 Country: Soviet Union (until 1976)
Switzerland (since 1994)
🔸 Born: 23 March 1931
Leningrad, Soviet Union
🔸 Died: 6 June 2016 (aged 85)
Wohlen, Switzerland
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (1956)
🔸 Peak rating: 2695 (January 1979)
♦️ Korchnoi first qualified as a candidate from the 1962 Stockholm Inter-zonal, scoring 14/22 for a shared 4–5th-place finish, as Fischer won. The 1962 Candidates tournament, the last held in a round-robin format until 1985, was held at Curaçao a few months later, and Korchnoi placed fifth out of eight with an even score, 13½/27, while Tigran Petrosian won and earned the right to challenge Botvinnik. Korchnoi's score included two victories over Fischer, one being a brilliant win employing the Pirc Defense with the black pieces.
Korchnoi won at Havana 1963 with 16½/21, but fared less well in the next Soviet Championship, URS-ch31 at Leningrad, with just 10/19 for 10th place. He missed qualifying for the next world championship cycle, 1964–66, because of a relatively poor showing at the 1964 Zonal tournament in Moscow, where he made 5½/12 for a shared 5–6th place, so did not advance to the Inter-zonal. Korchnoi regained his form with an overwhelming triumph at Gyula, Hungary, in 1965 with 14½/15. He won at Bucharest 1966 with 12½/14, and at the Chigorin Memorial in Sochi 1966 with 11½/15.
♦️ A memorable game by Korchnoi against Spassky which known "Chess Crisis" in chessgames site 👇🏼
🔹 Viktor Korchnoi vs Boris Spassky
🔹 Korchnoi - Spassky Candidates Final (1977), Belgrade YUG, rd 7, Dec-09
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense. General (D58)
♦️ Revew and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ Soviet-Swiss Chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
🔸 Full name: Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
🔸 Country: Soviet Union (until 1976)
Switzerland (since 1994)
🔸 Born: 23 March 1931
Leningrad, Soviet Union
🔸 Died: 6 June 2016 (aged 85)
Wohlen, Switzerland
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (1956)
🔸 Peak rating: 2695 (January 1979)
♦️ Korchnoi first qualified as a candidate from the 1962 Stockholm Inter-zonal, scoring 14/22 for a shared 4–5th-place finish, as Fischer won. The 1962 Candidates tournament, the last held in a round-robin format until 1985, was held at Curaçao a few months later, and Korchnoi placed fifth out of eight with an even score, 13½/27, while Tigran Petrosian won and earned the right to challenge Botvinnik. Korchnoi's score included two victories over Fischer, one being a brilliant win employing the Pirc Defense with the black pieces.
Korchnoi won at Havana 1963 with 16½/21, but fared less well in the next Soviet Championship, URS-ch31 at Leningrad, with just 10/19 for 10th place. He missed qualifying for the next world championship cycle, 1964–66, because of a relatively poor showing at the 1964 Zonal tournament in Moscow, where he made 5½/12 for a shared 5–6th place, so did not advance to the Inter-zonal. Korchnoi regained his form with an overwhelming triumph at Gyula, Hungary, in 1965 with 14½/15. He won at Bucharest 1966 with 12½/14, and at the Chigorin Memorial in Sochi 1966 with 11½/15.
♦️ A memorable game by Korchnoi against Spassky which known "Chess Crisis" in chessgames site 👇🏼
🔹 Viktor Korchnoi vs Boris Spassky
🔹 Korchnoi - Spassky Candidates Final (1977), Belgrade YUG, rd 7, Dec-09
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense. General (D58)
♦️ Revew and download PGN file👇🏼
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