GM (2011) Sam Shankland (1991- ), now rated 2701, wins the 2018 U.S. chess championship. He won 6, drew 5, and lost none. He scored 1/2 point ahead of Fabiano Caruana. He scored better than 3 of the top 10 players in the world - Caruana (2822), So (2778) and Nakamura (2769).
🔹 Chess Positions on Stamps
🔹 Game story by Botvinnik
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🔹 Game story by Botvinnik
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✅ #about_Abrahams
🔹 Gerald Abrahams
🔹 English Chess Master and Chess Author
♦️ Gerald Abrahams was an English chess player, author, and barrister.
▪️ Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
▪️ Died: March 15, 1980
▪️ Books: 👇🏼
🔴 The chess mind
🔴 Technique in chess,
🔴 Not only chess, MORE
🔴 The Pan book of Chess
🔴 Test your chess
🔴 Teach yourself chess
♦️ Gerald Abrahams is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams–Noteboom Variation, or the Noteboom Variation:👇🏼👇🏼
⚙️ 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4
7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7
(ECO D31)
♦️ In 1933 he was third at Hastings in the British Championship, after Mir Sultan Khan and Theodore Tylor.
Abrahams was known as a strong blindfold player. In 1934 he took on four strong Irish players, playing blindfold, at the Belgravia Hotel in Belfast, winning two games and drawing two.
In the Anglo-Soviet radio match of 1946 he scored one win and one draw against Viacheslav Ragozin on board 10.
♦️ A memorable and informative Tactical short game by Abrahams 👇🏼
🔹 Gerald Abrahams vs. Edmund Spencer
🔹Liverpool, England - 1930
🔹 Slav Defense: Schlechter Variation (D15)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Gerald Abrahams
🔹 English Chess Master and Chess Author
♦️ Gerald Abrahams was an English chess player, author, and barrister.
▪️ Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
▪️ Died: March 15, 1980
▪️ Books: 👇🏼
🔴 The chess mind
🔴 Technique in chess,
🔴 Not only chess, MORE
🔴 The Pan book of Chess
🔴 Test your chess
🔴 Teach yourself chess
♦️ Gerald Abrahams is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams–Noteboom Variation, or the Noteboom Variation:👇🏼👇🏼
⚙️ 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4
7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7
(ECO D31)
♦️ In 1933 he was third at Hastings in the British Championship, after Mir Sultan Khan and Theodore Tylor.
Abrahams was known as a strong blindfold player. In 1934 he took on four strong Irish players, playing blindfold, at the Belgravia Hotel in Belfast, winning two games and drawing two.
In the Anglo-Soviet radio match of 1946 he scored one win and one draw against Viacheslav Ragozin on board 10.
♦️ A memorable and informative Tactical short game by Abrahams 👇🏼
🔹 Gerald Abrahams vs. Edmund Spencer
🔹Liverpool, England - 1930
🔹 Slav Defense: Schlechter Variation (D15)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇🏼
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📘 12...f5!?
An interesting pawn sacrifice to seize the initiative.
13.B×b6 c×b6 14.N×a4 Bg5 15.Nc3 e4 16.Kh1
16.Rb1 Ne5 17.Nb3 Ng4 18.Qc2 Be3! = Nepo-Aronian 2017 1-0
16...Qd7 17.Rb1 Rad8 18.Nc4 Qf7 19.b3 e×d3 20.e×d3 f4
Black has more than enough compensation for the pawn.
An interesting pawn sacrifice to seize the initiative.
13.B×b6 c×b6 14.N×a4 Bg5 15.Nc3 e4 16.Kh1
16.Rb1 Ne5 17.Nb3 Ng4 18.Qc2 Be3! = Nepo-Aronian 2017 1-0
16...Qd7 17.Rb1 Rad8 18.Nc4 Qf7 19.b3 e×d3 20.e×d3 f4
Black has more than enough compensation for the pawn.
📘 Carlsen finds the best move in this complicated position.
34...Qe6!!
A multi-purpose move:
- Preventing White from playing Qa2.
- The passed d-pawn is stopped.
- Releasing the knight on f4.
- Preparing an excellent trap, for example, 35.Qe1?? R×h2+! 36.K×h2 Qh3#
35.Qb2 Bd8 36.Ng5 Qe8 37.Rb3 B×g5 38.R×g5 Ne6 39.Rg4 R×g4 40.f×g4 Qd8 41.Rh3? Qd5+ 42.Kg1 Qe4 43.Qb4 Rf6 0-1
34...Qe6!!
A multi-purpose move:
- Preventing White from playing Qa2.
- The passed d-pawn is stopped.
- Releasing the knight on f4.
- Preparing an excellent trap, for example, 35.Qe1?? R×h2+! 36.K×h2 Qh3#
35.Qb2 Bd8 36.Ng5 Qe8 37.Rb3 B×g5 38.R×g5 Ne6 39.Rg4 R×g4 40.f×g4 Qd8 41.Rh3? Qd5+ 42.Kg1 Qe4 43.Qb4 Rf6 0-1
📘 23...Be7??
Navara's carelessness.
23...Re7
24.R×h7! Rb8
24...K×h7 25.Ng5+ +-
25.Rc7 Bf6 26.Rb7 Nb4 27.R×b8+ K×h7 28.Rb7+ Kg8 29.R×a7+ +/-
Navara's carelessness.
23...Re7
24.R×h7! Rb8
24...K×h7 25.Ng5+ +-
25.Rc7 Bf6 26.Rb7 Nb4 27.R×b8+ K×h7 28.Rb7+ Kg8 29.R×a7+ +/-