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Gideon Japhet Cup features 6 strong GMs: Ian Nepomniachtchi, Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Anna Muzychuk, Vassily Ivanchuk and Georg Meier.

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๐Ÿ”น 4th Gideon Japhet Mem Cup
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Our bio on Francois Andre Danican Philidor, the great chess master of the 18th century, has been updated and expanded - read it here: http://www.billwallchess.com/articles/Philidor.htm

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Former World Champion Boris Spassky, in play at the London Phillips & Drew tournament, Aprl 1982. This event took place in the County Hall, across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament

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David Bronstein in play v. Mark Taimanov, 18th round, 16th USSR-ch, Moscow, 11th December 1948.

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Savielly Tartakower vs Arturo Pomar, London, February 1946, Chess Review, page 9. From E. Winter's "Chess Prodigies"
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/prodigies.html
An 8 year old Boris Gelfand.

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โญ•๏ธ #SusanPolgar_chess_quotes_003

๐Ÿ’ข Susan Polgar
๐Ÿ’ข American-Hungarian chess Grandmaster and writer

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โญ•๏ธ #about_SusanPolgar

๐Ÿ’ข Susan Polgar
๐Ÿ’ข American-Hungarian chess Grandmaster and writer

๐Ÿ”ฐ Susan Polgar is a Hungarian-born American chess Grandmaster. She is an Olympic and World chess champion, a chess teacher, coach, writer and promoter and the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) at Webster University as well as the head coach for the 2011 and 2012 National Championship college chess teams at Texas Tech University and the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 National Championship teams at Webster University. The U.S. Collegiate championship has been contested each year since 2001 at the Final Four of College Chess, also known as the President's Cup.

๐Ÿ”˜ Full name: Polgรกr Zsuzsanna
๐Ÿ”˜ Country: Hungary United States
๐Ÿ”˜ Born: April 19, 1969 (age 49)
Budapest, Hungary
๐Ÿ”˜ Title: Grandmaster
๐Ÿ”˜ Women's World Champion: 1996โ€“99
๐Ÿ”˜ FIDE rating: 2577 (July 2018) [inactive]
๐Ÿ”˜ Peak rating: 2577 (January 2005)

๐Ÿ”ฐ Susan Polgar was the first woman to earn the grandmaster title through tournament play, and is credited with breaking a number of gender barriers in chess.

On the July 1984 FIDE Rating List, at the age of 15, she became the top-ranked woman player in the world, and remained ranked in the top three for the next 23 years. She was also the first woman in history to break the gender barrier by qualifying for the 1986 "Men's" World Championship. She was the Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999 (in Classical time control). She won the World Blitz and Rapid Championships in 1992. In October 2005, Polgar had an Elo rating of 2577, making her the second-ranked woman in the world at the time, after her sister Judit. Polgar went on to win ten Olympic medals (5 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze) and four Women's World Championships. She has not played in official competition since 2006.

โ™ฆ๏ธ A memorable game by Susan Polgar๐Ÿ‘‡
๐Ÿ”ธ Zsuzsa Polgar vs Piet Peelen
๐Ÿ”ธ Hoogovens-B (1990), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 5, Jan-20
๐Ÿ”ธ English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. King's Indian Formation (A15)

โ™ฆ๏ธReview and download PGN file๐Ÿ‘‡

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๐Ÿ”ธ Zsuzsa Polgar - Piet Peelen, Hoogovens-B (1990)
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โ˜‘๏ธ Chess History - Tournaments
๐Ÿ”˜ Belfort 1988

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โ˜‘๏ธ Chess History - Tournaments
๐Ÿ”˜ Belfort 1988

๐Ÿ”น The second international chess tournament in a series of six organized by the GMA from 1988 to 1989 as a World Cup was held in Belfort, France from June 14th to July 3rd, 1988. Twenty-four of the world's best grandmasters, including the world champion and world vice-champion, were invited to participate in the World Cup, sixteen of them appearing in Belfort's category XV event. The complete list of participants was (in order of ELO): Garry Kasparov (2750), Anatoli Karpov (2715), Jan Timman (2675), Alexander Beliavsky (2645), Nigel Short (2630), Jonathan Speelman (2625), Zoltan Ribli (2620), Artur Yusupov (2620), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (2610), Ulf Andersson (2605), Johann Hjartarson (2595), Robert Huebner (2595), Andrei Sokolov (2595), Jaan Ehlvest (2585), Boris Spassky (2565), and Jesus Nogueiras (2560).

๐Ÿ”น Despite placing first at Brussels earlier in the year, and despite winning their head-to-head game here, Karpov could only manage second against Kasparov's impressive victory where he earned wins against half the field for +8(!) at the final. The final standings and crosstable are as above๐Ÿ‘†

โ™ฆ๏ธ Download Belfort 1988 games database by PGN format๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
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๐Ÿ”น Belfort 1988 games database
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Sundar M. Shyam ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ and Cori Quispe ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ช share the 1st place at the #MontcadaOpen with 7/9 points, but the Indian GM takes the top prize due to better tie-breaks.
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๐Ÿ”น 26th Montcada Open 2018
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