This was Stein's last tournament - his sudden death at the age of 38 a few months later shocked the chess world.

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Trophy: '1975 United States Chess Champion'

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♦️ Today is birthday of Vasilios Kotronias
Greek chess grandmaster and chess author

🌺 🌹🌷🌸💐☘️🌹 Happy birthday Vasilios 👏👏👏👏
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🔹 Vasilios Kotronias
🔹Greek chess grandmaster and chess author
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🔹 Vasilios Kotronias
🔹Greek chess grandmaster and chess author

🔰 Vasilios Kotronias is a Greek chess grandmaster and chess author. He is ten-time Greek Chess Champion. Kotronias was awarded the titles of International Master in 1986 and Grandmaster in 1990.

🔘Country: Greece
🔻Cyprus (1998–2004)
🔘Born: 25 August 1964 (age 54)
🔻Athens, Greece
🔘Title: Grandmaster (1990)
🔘FIDE rating: 2505 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2628 (January 2008)

🔰 Vasilios Kotronias was born in Athens. Since then he has been one of Greece's leading representatives at Olympiads and other international events.
His tournament achievements include joint first places at Panormo 1998 and Gibraltar 2003. He has participated in three of FIDE's World Championship knockout tournaments, but has never made it further than the second round. Kotronias is an eight time Greek champion.

🔰Between 1998 and 2004, he represented Cyprus, but has since switched federations to become a Greek national player once again.
He was a candidate for the European Parliament with The River, in the elections of 25 May 2014.

♦️ A memorable game by Vasilios Kotronias👇
🔸Vasilios Kotronias vs Francisco Vallejo Pons
🔸10th European Individual Championship (2009), Budva MNE, rd 5, Mar-10
🔸Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation. Main lines (B18)

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🔹 Vasilios Kotronias - Francisco Vallejo Pons, 10th European Individual Championship (2009)
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🔸Saint Louis Blits 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Nakamura,Hikaru (2777)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2801)
🔸1-0

37... e4??
Mamedyarov makes a huge blunder in a winning position.
37... Qg5 -+
38. Qxd3 1-0

🔸Saint Louis Blits 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Dominguez Perez,Leinier (2739)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2822)
🔸0-1

61. Kf4??
Dominguez probably thought that grabbing the e6 pawn would be a mistake, but: 61. Rxe6! Bd7 62. Kg3 =
61... Kd6 62. Rg5 Rh4+ 63. Ke3 Rh3+ 64.Kd4 Rxa3 0-1

🔸Saint Louis Blits 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Aronian,Levon (2767)
⚫️Grischuk,Alexander (2766)
🔸0-1

30. Qe3??
Aronian's blunder.
30. Rg4 Rh1 -/+ would have put up more stubborn resistance.
30... Rxc4 0-1

🔸Saint Louis Blits 2018
🔸Round 12
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2822)
⚫️Nakamura,Hikaru (2777)
🔸0-1

46. Bc5??
46. Qc3!!
The only saving move.
46...d1=Q 47. Qg7+ Ke6 48. Qg8+ Kd6 49. Qd8+ Ke6 50. Qg8+ Ke7
51. Qg7+ Ke8 52. Qh8+ Kf7 53. Qxh7+ Kf6 54. Qh8+ Ke6 55. Qg8+ =
46... d1=Q 47.Qe7+ Kc8 48. Qe8+ Kc7 49. Qxb5 Qc6 50. Qa5+ Kd7 51. Qa7+ Qc7 0-1

⚪️#633 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Seirawan,Y
🔸US Championship, Long Beach, 1989

12.Ne4!
Heading for c5.
12.Be3 Nd5 did not promise much.
12...Ba2?! 13.Rb2 Bd5 14.Nc5 Rb8 15.e4!? Bf7 16.Be3