⚪️#614 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hillarp Persson,T
🔸Ellen,J
🔸Recklinghausen, 1999

15.f4!
Strengthening the knight on e5 and preventing Black from playing ...f4. Now White can continue his attack on the kingside.
15...Be6 16.h4! fxg4 17.h5 Bf5 18.hxg6 hxg6 19.Rh6+-

⚪️#615 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Leko,P
🔸Topalov,V
🔸Frankfurt (rapid), 1999

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 615
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B: f4 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 78%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Jonas, @Sophia_Peng, @aref_sbk, @RichardPeng, Zhenrui, Sanjana

A: d5 – 2
👍👍 22%
@Jarullah, Rachel

C: Bg1
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

⚪️#616 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kiriakov,P
🔸Tiviakov,S
🔸Isle of Man, 1999

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 616
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A: e4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
España 🇪🇸, Jonas, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, Rachel, George, Zhenrui, Sanjana

C: Ng5 – 4
👍👍👍👍 33%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @mortazatargolghasemi, @aref_sbk, @RichardPeng

B: Rd2
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

Anton Korobov (2664) solely leads the Abu Dhabi chessfestival with 7/8 points. Today, in the last round, he takes on one of the runner-ups, GM Gabriel Sargissian (2680).

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🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Santa Monica 1966

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🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Santa Monica 1966

🔹After the success of the First Piatigorsky Cup (1963), the second was organized by Gregor and Jacqueline Piatigorsky in Santa Monica, California from July 17-August 15, 1966, with Isaac Kashdan directing. The stellar field included the current and next two World Champions plus a slew of Candidates-level grandmasters in a double-round robin event:
🔻Jan Hein Donner
🔻Robert James Fischer
🔻Borislav Ivkov
🔻Bent Larsen
🔻Miguel Najdorf
🔻Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔻Lajos Portisch
🔻Samuel Reshevsky
🔻Boris Spassky
🔻Wolfgang Unzicker
🔸The Piatigorskys invited both Reshevsky and Fischer in spite of the Fischer - Reshevsky (1961) match fiasco.

🔹Spassky played steadily and was at or near the lead most of the way, unsheathing his claws when the time was right. Larsen gave him some competition for a while, even taking the lead in Round 10, but three losses in a row (the last being to Spassky) put an end to his challenge.
But it was Fischer who captured everybody's attention and made this into a "Tale of Two Tournaments". In the first half, a three-game losing streak (the last being to Spassky) left him in ninth place at the halfway mark, 2.5 points behind Spassky. Nothing daunted, he won his first four games in the second go-around and caught Spassky by round 16. Their draw in round 17 didn't change anything, but the last round saw Fischer with Black against Petrosian while Spassky had White against tail-ender Donner.
Petrosian had been having a lousy tournament, his two losses to Larsen both being of the immortal variety. In final round he hunkered down and secured a draw with Fischer, while Spassky demolished Donner to take first place.
In fact, Petrosian's even score made him the first world champion since Alekhine to achieve "only" an even score in a tournament.


▪️Results and Final Standings👇
( S E E B Y C O M P U T E R )
( O R W I D E D I S P L A Y T A B L E T )
(CHANGE SCREEN ROTATION OF MOBILE)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 Spassky 1½ ½1 1½ ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ 1½ ½1 11.5
2 Fischer 0½ 01 ½½ ½1 ½1 ½½ 01 11 ½1 11.0
3 Larsen ½0 10 ½0 1½ ½1 11 1½ 01 ½0 10.0
4 Unzicker 0½ ½½ ½1 ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ 1½ ½½ 9.5
5 Portisch ½½ ½0 0½ ½½ ½½ 1½ ½½ ½1 ½1 9.5
6 Reshevsky ½½ ½0 ½0 ½½ ½½ ½½ ½1 ½½ 1½ 9.0
7 Petrosian ½½ ½½ 00 ½½ 0½ ½½ 11 ½½ ½1 9.0
8 Najdorf ½½ 10 0½½½ ½½ ½0 00 1½ ½1 8.0
9 Ivkov 0½ 00 10 0½ ½0 ½½ ½½ 0½ ½1 6.5
10 Donner ½0 ½0 ½1 ½½ ½0 0½ ½0 ½0 ½0 6.0


✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
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▪️Boris Spassky vs Jan Hein Donner
▪️Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966), Santa Monica, CA USA, rd 18, Aug-15
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⚪️#615 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Leko,P
🔸Topalov,V
🔸Frankfurt (rapid), 1999