Havana Olympiad 1966, the closing ceremony. Fidel Castro awarding Tigran Petrosian the medal for best result on board one.

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Wesley So leads the first day of tournament

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✴️ Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour 2018
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Round 1
Nakamura - Giri
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Nakamura - Giri
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✴️ Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour 2018
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Caruana-So
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Caruana-So
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✴️ Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour 2018
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Karjakin-Grischuk
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Karjakin-Grischuk
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🔹 Eduard Gufeld
🔹 Soviet International Grandmaster
🔹 Chess Writer

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🔹 Eduard Gufeld
🔹 Soviet International Grandmaster
🔹 Chess Writer

♦️ Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author.

🔘 Full name: Eduard Gufeld
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
United States
🔘 Born: March 19, 1936
Kiev, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: September 23, 2002
Los Angeles, United States
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 Peak rating: 2570 (January 1977)

♦️Gufeld began participating in chess tournaments in 1953 and won the junior championship of Ukraine the following year. He became an International Master in 1964, and became an International Grandmaster in 1967. In 1977 his Elo rating was 2570, and ranked 16th in the world.
He moved to Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, where he coached Maia Chiburdanidze, who became the youngest women's world chess champion in 1978.[2] After the fall of the Soviet Union, he emigrated to the United States.

♦️ Gufeld's some books:
▪️ Beating the Sicilian, Batsford, 1984.
▪️ Exploiting Small Advantages, Batsford, 1985. 2003 reprint:
▪️ The Sicilian for the Tournament Player, Batsford, 1989.
▪️ My Life in Chess, Intl Chess Enterprises, 1993.
▪️ Stetsko, Oleg. Winning With the Torre Attack.
▪️ An Opening Repertoire For The Attacking Player, Batsford, 1996.
▪️ The Modern French Tarrasch, Cadogan, 1996.

♦️ A memorable game by Gufeld named "The Mona Lisa" in chessgames.com site!! 👇
🔸 Vladimir Bagirov vs Eduard Gufeld
🔸 URS-ch sf (1973), Kirovabad, Jun-??
🔸 King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation. Panno (E84)

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🔹 Vladimir Bagirov vs Eduard Gufeld , URS-ch (1973)
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🔸Longtou Open 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2535)
⚫️Nie,Xinyang (2364)
🔸½-½

33...Ne4?
33...Rc8! -/+
Defending the c5-pawn and threatening to play 34...Bxh3 or 34...b5.
34.Qe3 Ng5 35.Kh1 b6 36.Re8+ R×e8 37.Q×e8+ Kh7 38.Q×h5+ +-

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⚪️Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2535)
⚫️Nie,Xinyang (2364)
🔸½-½

40.Qe3?
This move allows Black to plant his knight on the d6 square. A typical idea of defence in this type of position.
40.Qe7!
with the idea of d6.
40...Qe5 41.Q×e5 f×e5 42.Kg1 +-
40...Ne4! 41.Ng4 Nd6 42.Nf2 Bg6 43.Bd3 B×d3 44.Q×d3+ f5 =

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⚪️Zou,Chen (2361)
⚫️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2587)
🔸0-1

Iranian No.2 finishes the game in beautiful style.
31...e4! 32.N×e4
32.Ne1 Qe5 --->e3 -+
32...Nf3!!+ 33.g×f3 g×f3+ 34.Ng3 Be3! 35.Kh2 Qg4 36.Kg1 0-1