Fischer (US Chess Champion back then) and Reshevsky playing chess with actor Jose Ferrer on the eve of their match in 1961.
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Amsterdam, 8th May 1968. The opening Candidates Quarter-final match between Sammy Reshevsky (USA) & Viktor Korchnoi (USSR). Korchnoi won the match, winning 3 & drawing 5 of the 8 games.
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Bad Pistyan 1912.
Rubinstein on the far right won the tournament ahead of Spielmann, who is sitting at the next table looking at the photographer.
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Rubinstein on the far right won the tournament ahead of Spielmann, who is sitting at the next table looking at the photographer.
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World champion Anatoly Karpov and Vitaly Sevastyanov, the Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions and president of the Soviet Union Chess Federation, during a November 1978 FIDE Congress.
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❇️ #about_Petrosian 👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Tigran Petrosian
🔹Soviet ArmenianChess Grandmaster
♦️ Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost impenetrable defensive playing style, which emphasised safety above all else.
▪️ Full name: Tigran Vardani Petrosian
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: June 17, 1929
Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia)
▪️ Died: August 13, 1984 (aged 55)
Moscow, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1952)
▪️ World Champion: 1963–1969
▪️ Peak rating: 2645 (July 1972)
♦️ Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Championship on eight occasions (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980). He won the World Championship in 1963 (against Mikhail Botvinnik), successfully defended it in 1966—against Boris Spassky—and lost it to Spassky in 1969. Thus he was the defending World Champion or a World Championship Candidate in ten consecutive three-year cycles. He won the Soviet Championship four times (1959, 1961, 1969, and 1975).
Petrosian is widely known for popularizing chess in Armenia.
♦️ A memorable and informative game by Petrosian against Spassky which known "We Are the Champions" in chessgames.com site.
This game contains Petrosian's Iron Sacrifices!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Boris Spassky vs Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔹 Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Match (1966), Moscow URS, rd 7, Apr-25
🔹 Torre Attack: Classical Defense (A46)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Tigran Petrosian
🔹Soviet ArmenianChess Grandmaster
♦️ Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost impenetrable defensive playing style, which emphasised safety above all else.
▪️ Full name: Tigran Vardani Petrosian
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: June 17, 1929
Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia)
▪️ Died: August 13, 1984 (aged 55)
Moscow, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1952)
▪️ World Champion: 1963–1969
▪️ Peak rating: 2645 (July 1972)
♦️ Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Championship on eight occasions (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980). He won the World Championship in 1963 (against Mikhail Botvinnik), successfully defended it in 1966—against Boris Spassky—and lost it to Spassky in 1969. Thus he was the defending World Champion or a World Championship Candidate in ten consecutive three-year cycles. He won the Soviet Championship four times (1959, 1961, 1969, and 1975).
Petrosian is widely known for popularizing chess in Armenia.
♦️ A memorable and informative game by Petrosian against Spassky which known "We Are the Champions" in chessgames.com site.
This game contains Petrosian's Iron Sacrifices!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Boris Spassky vs Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔹 Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Match (1966), Moscow URS, rd 7, Apr-25
🔹 Torre Attack: Classical Defense (A46)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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@Spassky-Petrosian 1966.pgn
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🔸 Boris Spassky vs Tigran Petrosian, World Championship Match (1966), Moscow
🔸 PGN format
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🔸 PGN format
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24...a4!
A clever game by the delegate of west Asian in Tbilisi World cup 2017.
25.Q×a4 Nb4! 26.Qa5 B×b3! 27.a×b3 Q×a5! 28.R×a5 N×d3 29.c×d3 R×d3 30.Rc1 Rd×b3 -/+
A clever game by the delegate of west Asian in Tbilisi World cup 2017.
25.Q×a4 Nb4! 26.Qa5 B×b3! 27.a×b3 Q×a5! 28.R×a5 N×d3 29.c×d3 R×d3 30.Rc1 Rd×b3 -/+
Amirreza shows his great endgame skills.
29...b4! 30.Be1 Rc1 31.g3 b3!!
A brilliant move that puts White in a lost position.
32.a×b3
32.a3 Rc2! 33.R×c2
(33.Kf1 B×a3!-+)
33...b×c2 34.Bd2 Kd6--->Kb3 -+
32...Bb4 33.Kf1 Kc6 34.Re4 Kc5 35.R×b4 R×e1+ 36.K×e1 K×b4 37.Kd2 K×b3 38.Kc1 h5 39.f3 g5 40.g4 h×g4 41.f×g4 Kc4 -+
29...b4! 30.Be1 Rc1 31.g3 b3!!
A brilliant move that puts White in a lost position.
32.a×b3
32.a3 Rc2! 33.R×c2
(33.Kf1 B×a3!-+)
33...b×c2 34.Bd2 Kd6--->Kb3 -+
32...Bb4 33.Kf1 Kc6 34.Re4 Kc5 35.R×b4 R×e1+ 36.K×e1 K×b4 37.Kd2 K×b3 38.Kc1 h5 39.f3 g5 40.g4 h×g4 41.f×g4 Kc4 -+
24...Rg6!
An excellent regrouping to attack the white king.
25.Qf3 Kg7! 26.Nf1 Rh8 27.Ne3 Bc8 28.Qd1 Nh5 29.Be2 Nf4 30.Bg4! Rgh6 -+
An excellent regrouping to attack the white king.
25.Qf3 Kg7! 26.Nf1 Rh8 27.Ne3 Bc8 28.Qd1 Nh5 29.Be2 Nf4 30.Bg4! Rgh6 -+