▪️Boris Spassky vs Jan Hein Donner
▪️Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966), Santa Monica, CA USA, rd 18, Aug-15
▪️Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Worrall Attack Castling line (C86)
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⚪️#615 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Leko,P
🔸Topalov,V
🔸Frankfurt (rapid), 1999

13.Bg1!
A strong move, with the idea of g4.
13...0-0-0 14.g4 Nf6 15.f3 Nh7 16.Bf2 e5
16...Bf6? 17.d5 exd5 18.Nxd5 Qe5 19.Nxf6 Nxf6 20.Bxh4+/-
17.d5 Nd4 18.Nxd4! exd4 19.Rxd4
Topalov seems to attract various rook sacrifices on the d4 square in 99 ( although this time it's just an exchange as opposed to Kasparov-Topalov/Wijk/99 where Kasparov sacked a whole rook on d4).
19...Bxd4 20.Qxd4 b6 21.Nb5! Kb7 22.Qc3 Rc8 23.Nd4+/-

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

Black is a couple of moves away from completing his development when White will have a slight bind in the center due to the c4 pawn helping to restrain the d5 and b5 breaks. But White grasps on a familiar tactical motif and pursues it through in calculation...
13.Ng5! Rd8?
Gross blunder. 13...g6+/= is necessary.
14.Nd5!!
Unleashing the b2-bishop is quite stunning:
14...exd5 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Qxh7! Kf8 17.cxd5 d6 18.Bh5+-

⚫️#617 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Browne,W
🔸Gulko,B
🔸US Championship, Los Angeles, 1991

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 617
public poll

A: b5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
Jonas, @Sophia_Peng, @aref_sbk, @RichardPeng, Rachel, Zhenrui

B: b6 – 1
👍 13%
Vincent

C: Bd6 – 1
👍 13%
George

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#618 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Miles,A
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Philadelphia World Open, 1987

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 618
public poll

B: Rac8 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%
Jonas, @RichardPeng, Rachel, George, Zhenrui

A: Rab8 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍 44%
شیدا, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, @aref_sbk

C: Kg7
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

⚛️ #Chiburdanidze_chess_quotes_001

💢Maia Chiburdanidze
💢Georgian chess grandmaster
💢Seventh Women's World Chess Champion

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⚛️ #about_Chiburdanidze

💢Maia Chiburdanidze
💢Georgian chess grandmaster
💢Seventh Women's World Chess Champion

🔰Maia Chiburdanidze is a Georgian chess grandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan. She has won nine Chess Olympiads.

🔻Full name: Maia Chiburdanidze
🔻Country: Soviet Union Georgia
🔻Born: 17 January 1961 (age 57)
Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
🔻Title: Grandmaster (1984)
🔻Women's World Champion: 1978–1991
🔻FIDE rating: 2500 (August 2018) [inactive]
🔻Peak rating: 2560 (January 1988)

🔰Maia Chiburdanidze was born in Kutaisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR and started playing chess around the age of eight. She became the USSR girls' champion in 1976 and a year later she won the women's title. In 1977 she was awarded the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.
She won outright on her debut at the Braşov women's international tournament of 1974 when she was only 13 years old and went on to win another tournament in Tbilisi in 1975 before entering the women's world championship cycle of 1976/77.
Her style of play is solid, but aggressive and well grounded in classical principles; it was influenced by Eduard Gufeld, a top Soviet trainer, who was her coach early in her career.

♦️ A memorable game by Chiburdanidze against Nigel Short which named "The Discovery Channel" in chessgames.com site 👇
🔸 Maia Chiburdanidze vs Nigel Short
🔸Dortmund (1983), Dortmund FRG, rd 5
🔸Caro-Kann Defense: Bronstein-Larsen Variation (B16)

Review and download PGN file👇
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💢 Maia Chiburdanidze - Nigel Short, Dortmund (1983)
💢PGN format
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To the victor, the spoils! Hikaru Nakamura wins his 2nd #GrandChessTour event in a row:

https://bit.ly/2wb5vC7

Hikaru Nakamura won the Rapids/Blitz Grand Chess Tour in St. Louis, scoring 22.5 points. Vachier-Lagrave took 2nd with 21.5, followed by Mamedyarov with 21. Caruana had 20, Aronian had 18, Karjakin had 17, Dominguez had 16, Grischuk had 15.5, So had 15, and Anand had 13.5.

🔹 Saint Louis Rapid 2018
🔹 PGN format

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