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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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June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY TWO
ROUND 6
🔹Vladimir Kramnik- Sergey Karjakin
🔹 Download annotated PGN file👇
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Paris GCT 2018 Kramnik - Karjakin Rapid Round4.pgn
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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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June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY TWO
ROUND 6
🔹Vladimir Kramnik- Sergey Karjakin
🔹 PGN format
🔹 Annotated by GM Dejan Bojkov
@unitychess
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🛄 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY THREE
ROUND 8
Viswanathan Anand - Hikaru Nakamura
🔹 Download annotated PGN file👇
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June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY THREE
ROUND 8
Viswanathan Anand - Hikaru Nakamura
🔹 Download annotated PGN file👇
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Paris GCT 2018 Anand - Nakamura Rapid Round8.pgn
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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
@unitychess
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
🔸 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
🔸 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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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!
https://bit.ly/2K4jBPB
https://bit.ly/2K4jBPB
"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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9.Be2!
This alert move puts extreme pressure on Black's game. By covering the d1-h5 diagonal, White threatens 10 Qd4, followed by 0-0-0, with devastation to follow on the d-file. White also raises the prospect of exchanging bishop for knight on e5, followed by the space-gaining f4 and e5.
9...Bc5?! 10.Bxe5 Qxe5 11.f4 Qb8 12.e5 a6 13.exf6 axb5 14.fxg7
"I wanted the pawn" – Fischer.
14...Rg8 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Qd4+-.
This alert move puts extreme pressure on Black's game. By covering the d1-h5 diagonal, White threatens 10 Qd4, followed by 0-0-0, with devastation to follow on the d-file. White also raises the prospect of exchanging bishop for knight on e5, followed by the space-gaining f4 and e5.
9...Bc5?! 10.Bxe5 Qxe5 11.f4 Qb8 12.e5 a6 13.exf6 axb5 14.fxg7
"I wanted the pawn" – Fischer.
14...Rg8 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Qd4+-.
14.Rf3!
White plays to maintain a blockade on e5, making it difficult for Black to achieve the natural freeing moves ...f6/...f5. Without these moves or some other urgent defensive reinforcement, Black's king risks becoming cut off from his central and queenside forces. Meanwhile, White's rooks and knight can all make use of f3 as an effective staging post to attack on the kingside.
14...Qe7!? 15.Raf1 a5?! 16.Rg3 Bxe5? (16...g6 was correct) 17.fxe5+/-.
White plays to maintain a blockade on e5, making it difficult for Black to achieve the natural freeing moves ...f6/...f5. Without these moves or some other urgent defensive reinforcement, Black's king risks becoming cut off from his central and queenside forces. Meanwhile, White's rooks and knight can all make use of f3 as an effective staging post to attack on the kingside.
14...Qe7!? 15.Raf1 a5?! 16.Rg3 Bxe5? (16...g6 was correct) 17.fxe5+/-.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 515
public poll
B: Nc5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%
Ramesh, Vincent, @SiNa9849, @AryanLeekha, @Tiong_Ji
A: Rac1 – 2
👍👍👍 22%
@Afshin3333, @RichardPeng
C: b4 – 2
👍👍👍 22%
Fatemeh, @Fighter27man27
👥 9 people voted so far.
public poll
B: Nc5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%
Ramesh, Vincent, @SiNa9849, @AryanLeekha, @Tiong_Ji
A: Rac1 – 2
👍👍👍 22%
@Afshin3333, @RichardPeng
C: b4 – 2
👍👍👍 22%
Fatemeh, @Fighter27man27
👥 9 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 516
public poll
A: Nc5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
Fatemeh, Ramesh, @Fighter27man27, @SiNa9849, @AryanLeekha, @Tiong_Ji
B: Ne1 – 1
👍 13%
Vincent
C: c5 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng
👥 8 people voted so far.
public poll
A: Nc5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
Fatemeh, Ramesh, @Fighter27man27, @SiNa9849, @AryanLeekha, @Tiong_Ji
B: Ne1 – 1
👍 13%
Vincent
C: c5 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng
👥 8 people voted so far.