❇️ #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)

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🔸 Boris Spassky vs Tigran Petrosian, World Championship Match (1966), Moscow
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🔸Tashkent open 2018
⚪️tillyeva,U (2294)
⚫️Pourramezanali,A (2536)
🔸0-1

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 -/+

🔸Tashkent open 2018
⚪️kalimov (2187)
⚫️Pourramezanali,A (2536)
🔸0-1

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 -+

🔸Tashkent open 2018
⚪️Baymuratova,S (2142)
⚫️Pourramezanali,A (2536)
🔸0-1

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 -+

🔸shiraz cup 2018
⚪️mehrabi,M (2023)
⚫️Pourramezanali,A (2536)
🔸0-1

َA tactical and dynamic game by Iranian No.5, pourramezanali.
17.R×e3! 18.K×e3 Re8+ 19.Ne4 N×e4 20.Kf3 f5 21.Qa2 Qf7 22.g3 B×c4! 23.B×c4 N×c4 24.Rd1 Qh5+ 25.Kg2 N×c3 26.Q×c4 Re2+ 0-1

⚫️#407 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Korchnoi,V
🔸Nunn,J
🔸Reykjavik, 1988

In this position, we have a King's Indian Defence with the variation being the Four Pawns Attack. The difference between normal positions from that variation and the specific one here is that White has his bishop on g5. This weakens the dark squares behind the pawns, and this drawback is excellently exploited by Nunn with the following move.
10...Nh5!
Obviously with the threat of ... h7-h6.
11.Qf3 f6 12.Bh4 Nxf4 13.Qxf4 g5=/+.

⚫️#408 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gruenfeld,Y
🔸Svidler,P
🔸Haifa, 1995

For Black it is important that he justifies putting the bishop on b4, otherwise, he is simply lagging behind in development. Moreover, White's development lead will be used to organize an assault in the center or on the kingside (probably both), starting with e4-e5. The solution is to give White structural weaknesses and then prevent this advance.
10.Bxc3! 11.bxc3 e5!
The simplest way to prevent e4-e5. Note that this fits in well with ... Bxc3 as there is now no Nc3-d5 to look out for.
12.c4 exf4 13.Bxf4 d6 14.Kh1 Ng4! 15.Be2 Nge5=

⚫️#409 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Svidler,P
🔸Sakaev,K
🔸St Petersburg, 1995

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 409

B: g5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%

A: Nc6 – 2
👍👍👍👍 25%

C: Ne5 – 2
👍👍👍👍 25%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#410 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Yakovich,Y
🔸Solozhenkin,E
🔸St Petersburg, 1995

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 410

A: Qd2 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 70%

B: B×c5 – 2
👍👍 20%

C: B×f4 – 1
👍 10%

👥 10 people voted so far.