21.Bd2!
A lovely move which both stops ...Nf5 and also increases White's activity a little by unmasking the e-file, activating White's rook on e1.
21...Bxf3
Black switches his plan.
22.Nxf3 Ng6 23.Rxe8+ Rxe8 24.Nd4
A lovely move which both stops ...Nf5 and also increases White's activity a little by unmasking the e-file, activating White's rook on e1.
21...Bxf3
Black switches his plan.
22.Nxf3 Ng6 23.Rxe8+ Rxe8 24.Nd4
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 571
public poll
B: Qb4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
Jonas, Nikhil, Ramesh, Venkat, Saghana, Rachel, Zhenrui, Matthew
A: Re5 – 1
👍 11%
@SinaKhansharifan
C: f6
▫️ 0%
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B: Qb4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
Jonas, Nikhil, Ramesh, Venkat, Saghana, Rachel, Zhenrui, Matthew
A: Re5 – 1
👍 11%
@SinaKhansharifan
C: f6
▫️ 0%
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 572
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A: Qd3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 69%
Jonas, Nikhil, Ramesh, Jayden, Saghana, @roshan_sethuraman, خدیجه, Zhenrui, Matthew
B:Bd2 – 2
👍👍 15%
Ahmad, Rachel
C: a3 – 2
👍👍 15%
@SinaKhansharifan, @Bplak1234
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A: Qd3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 69%
Jonas, Nikhil, Ramesh, Jayden, Saghana, @roshan_sethuraman, خدیجه, Zhenrui, Matthew
B:Bd2 – 2
👍👍 15%
Ahmad, Rachel
C: a3 – 2
👍👍 15%
@SinaKhansharifan, @Bplak1234
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🔹 Today is birthday of Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani Chess Grandmaster
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💠 #about_Gashimov
🔹 Vugar Gashimov
🔹 Azerbaijani Chess Grandmaster
🔰 Vugar Gashimov was an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He was a noted player of blitz chess. At his peak ranking he was No. 6 in the world, achieved in November 2009.
Full name: Vüqar Qasım oğlu Həşimov
Country: Azerbaijan
Born: 24 July 1986
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Died: 11 January 2014 (aged 27)
Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Grandmaster (2002)
Peak rating: 2761 (January 2012)
Peak ranking: No. 6 (November 2009)
🔰Gashimov was born on July 24, 1986 in Baku. He was the son of a retired army colonel who served at the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
He won the Athens 2005 (Acropolis International), and tied for first at the Cappelle-la-Grande open in 2007, he again tied for first and was winning it on tie-break in 2008. He won the strong and traditional invitation tournament at Reggio Emilia in 2010-11 on tie-break above Francisco Vallejo Pons.
🔰Gashimov played for Azerbaijan in the Chess Olympiads of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad in 2009, alongside Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Teimour Radjabov, Rauf Mammadov and Gadir Guseinov, previously winning bronze medal in 2007. In 2010, however, he did not represent his country at the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk due to a conflict with the national chess federation and former team coach Zurab Azmaiparashvili.
◼️ Doctors diagnosed Gashimov with epilepsy when he fell ill in February 2000, and shortly afterwards, discovered a brain tumor. While receiving treatment for the brain tumor in a hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, Gashimov died in the early hours of 11 January 2014. He had been inactive from chess since playing in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January 2012. He was buried at the Alley of Honor in Baku.
♦️ A memorable and full tactical game by Gashimov👇
🔹 Vugar Gashimov vs Alexander Grischuk
🔹 Baku Grand Prix (2008), Baku AZE, rd 12, May-04
🔹 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Modern Steinitz Defense (C72)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔹 Vugar Gashimov
🔹 Azerbaijani Chess Grandmaster
🔰 Vugar Gashimov was an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He was a noted player of blitz chess. At his peak ranking he was No. 6 in the world, achieved in November 2009.
Full name: Vüqar Qasım oğlu Həşimov
Country: Azerbaijan
Born: 24 July 1986
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Died: 11 January 2014 (aged 27)
Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Grandmaster (2002)
Peak rating: 2761 (January 2012)
Peak ranking: No. 6 (November 2009)
🔰Gashimov was born on July 24, 1986 in Baku. He was the son of a retired army colonel who served at the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
He won the Athens 2005 (Acropolis International), and tied for first at the Cappelle-la-Grande open in 2007, he again tied for first and was winning it on tie-break in 2008. He won the strong and traditional invitation tournament at Reggio Emilia in 2010-11 on tie-break above Francisco Vallejo Pons.
🔰Gashimov played for Azerbaijan in the Chess Olympiads of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad in 2009, alongside Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Teimour Radjabov, Rauf Mammadov and Gadir Guseinov, previously winning bronze medal in 2007. In 2010, however, he did not represent his country at the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk due to a conflict with the national chess federation and former team coach Zurab Azmaiparashvili.
◼️ Doctors diagnosed Gashimov with epilepsy when he fell ill in February 2000, and shortly afterwards, discovered a brain tumor. While receiving treatment for the brain tumor in a hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, Gashimov died in the early hours of 11 January 2014. He had been inactive from chess since playing in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January 2012. He was buried at the Alley of Honor in Baku.
♦️ A memorable and full tactical game by Gashimov👇
🔹 Vugar Gashimov vs Alexander Grischuk
🔹 Baku Grand Prix (2008), Baku AZE, rd 12, May-04
🔹 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Modern Steinitz Defense (C72)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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40 years ago, the World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov & Viktor Korchnoi was under way. One of my earliest chess memories is reading the score of the 1st match game (played 18th July 1978) in the newspaper, while on holiday in England.
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◼️ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Petrograd 1923
▪️The 2nd USSR Championship was held in Petrograd on July 6-24, 1923, and was not the 2nd USSR Championship. It wasn't the 1st either. Though the initial treaty forming the Soviet Union had been signed at the end of 1922, these thirteen players were vying for the title Champion of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, or Russia):
Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk;
🔻 Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky;
🔻 Nikolay Dmitrievich Grigoriev;
🔻 Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky;
🔻 Arvid Kubbel;
🔻 Sergey Fedorovich Lebedev;
🔻 Grigory Levenfish;
🔻 Vladimir Nenarokov;
🔻 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich;
🔻 Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky;
🔻 Konstantin Alekseyevich Vygodchikov;
🔻 Yakov S Vilner;
🔻 Nikolay Zubarev
🔻 Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk
Two of the favorites met in round one, with Levenfish outduelling Romanovsky. However, the latter went on a tear with 10 points in his remaining 11 games, and in the end nobody could keep up.
✔️ The final standing was as above👆
.............................................................................
#chess_history_tornaments
#Petrograd_1923
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◼️ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Petrograd 1923
▪️The 2nd USSR Championship was held in Petrograd on July 6-24, 1923, and was not the 2nd USSR Championship. It wasn't the 1st either. Though the initial treaty forming the Soviet Union had been signed at the end of 1922, these thirteen players were vying for the title Champion of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, or Russia):
Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk;
🔻 Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky;
🔻 Nikolay Dmitrievich Grigoriev;
🔻 Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky;
🔻 Arvid Kubbel;
🔻 Sergey Fedorovich Lebedev;
🔻 Grigory Levenfish;
🔻 Vladimir Nenarokov;
🔻 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich;
🔻 Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky;
🔻 Konstantin Alekseyevich Vygodchikov;
🔻 Yakov S Vilner;
🔻 Nikolay Zubarev
🔻 Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk
Two of the favorites met in round one, with Levenfish outduelling Romanovsky. However, the latter went on a tear with 10 points in his remaining 11 games, and in the end nobody could keep up.
✔️ The final standing was as above👆
.............................................................................
#chess_history_tornaments
#Petrograd_1923
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12.Nb5!
Intending to transfer the knight to the central square d4 and also creating the threat of a3, winning a piece.
12.a6
12...Q×b2?? 13.Rb1 +-
12...Bd7?? 13.a3 +-
13.Nbd4 b5 14.Be2 e5 15.Nc2 Rd8 16.N×b4 R×d1 17.Rf×d1 a5 18.Nd5 Qd6 19.N×e5 =
The strategically interesting game remained in dynamic equilibrium for a long time, but in the endgame, Carlsen reached a position in which his rook, knight and pawns are superior to a queen.
Intending to transfer the knight to the central square d4 and also creating the threat of a3, winning a piece.
12.a6
12...Q×b2?? 13.Rb1 +-
12...Bd7?? 13.a3 +-
13.Nbd4 b5 14.Be2 e5 15.Nc2 Rd8 16.N×b4 R×d1 17.Rf×d1 a5 18.Nd5 Qd6 19.N×e5 =
The strategically interesting game remained in dynamic equilibrium for a long time, but in the endgame, Carlsen reached a position in which his rook, knight and pawns are superior to a queen.
19...Na6?
A carelessness. 22-year-old Swiss GM should have got his queen off the a3-f8 diagonal. 19...Qd7+/-
20.d4 b4 21.Bb2 0-0 22.B×d5! N×d5 23.d×c5 N×c5 24.N×d5 +-
A carelessness. 22-year-old Swiss GM should have got his queen off the a3-f8 diagonal. 19...Qd7+/-
20.d4 b4 21.Bb2 0-0 22.B×d5! N×d5 23.d×c5 N×c5 24.N×d5 +-