⚫️#512 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Browne,W
🔸Smyslov,V
🔸Las Palmas Interzonal, 1982

14...Ra5!
White must, of course, have seen this move, but what did he miss? The black rook's bold entrance into play on the queenside forces White's reply. Or if White's knight on b5 retreats, Black's knight simply captures White's d-pawn.
15.Nxc6+ bxc6 16.Nc3 Ke7!

⚪️#513 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,RJ
🔸Tal,M
🔸Bled, 1961

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 513
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A: Be2 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%
@MrAmrb, Gavin, Ramesh, @FrozenBlade, Vincent, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha

C: B×e5 – 1
👍 13%
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B: Bg2
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#514 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,RJ
🔸Mecking,H
🔸Palma de Mallorca Interzonal, 1970

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 514
public poll

A: Rf3 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
Gavin, Ramesh, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha

B: a4 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍 38%
@MrAmrb, Vincent, George

C: Nf3 – 1
👍👍 13%
@ALACIQ

👥 8 people voted so far.

🔹 Wesley So 1st of Rapid At Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
🔹 Review our selected games of this tournament👇👇

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🛄 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY TWO
ROUND 6

🔹Vladimir Kramnik- Sergey Karjakin
🔹 Download annotated PGN file👇
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🛄 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY TWO
ROUND 6

🔹Vladimir Kramnik- Sergey Karjakin
🔹 PGN format
🔹 Annotated by GM Dejan Bojkov
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🛄 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY THREE
ROUND 8

Viswanathan Anand - Hikaru Nakamura
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🛄 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY THREE
ROUND 8

🔹Viswanathan Anand - Hikaru Nakamura
🔹 PGN format
🔹 Annotated by GM Dejan Bojkov
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☑️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔘 London 1883

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#London_1883

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☑️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔘 London 1883


🔸 The London 1883 chess tournament was a strong chess tournament among most of the leading players of the day. It was won convincingly by Johannes Zukertort (22 points out of 26) ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz (with 19 points). Remarkably, Zukertort was already assured of victory with three rounds to go, having scored an astonishing 22/23. He then lost his last three games against relatively weak players, probably due to exhaustion. The tournament established Zukertort as rivalling Steinitz to claim to be the best player in the world, and led to the World Chess Championship 1886 match between the two (the first official World Chess Championship match). The event was a double round-robin tournament. Marmaduke Wyvill contributed to organizing the tournament.

🔸 The tournament was also notable for the first use of the double-sided chess clock, manufactured by T.B. Wilson of Manchester.

🔸 A common story relates to an incident that occurred at the tournament banquet, when the St. George Chess Club President proposed a toast to the best chess player in the world and both Steinitz and Zukertort stood up at the same time to thank him. Research by Edward Winter suggests that this story has been embellished.

🔸 In this tournament a game ending in a draw was replayed at least twice. The third game after two draws would count, whatever the result.

♦️ Download London 1883 games database by PGN format👇👇

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▪️ London 1883 Games
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Wesley So won the #GrandChessTour rapid again in Paris, but this time he only leads Nakamura and Karjakin by a point going into 18 rounds of blitz!
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🔹 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018 | Rapid
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🔹 Analysed by Chess.com

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"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe." #IndianProverb ; first mentioned in chess literature by N. Knight in his "Chess Pieces" (London, 1949).

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⚪️#513 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,RJ
🔸Tal,M
🔸Bled, 1961