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Armenian chess grandmaster

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✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Berlin 1881

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✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Berlin 1881
🔸 August 29 - September 17

🔰 Berlin 1881 (Germany)
CHAMPION: Joseph Henry Blackburne , 14/16 (+13 -1 =2)

▪️ The Berlin 1881 chess tournament organised by Hermann Zwanzig and Emil Schallopp, took place in Berlin from August 29 to September 17, 1881.
▪️ The brightest lights among the German participants were Louis Paulsen, his brother Wilfried Paulsen, and Johannes Minckwitz. Great Britain was represented by Joseph Henry Blackburne, the United States by James Mason, a master from Ireland. Mikhail Chigorin travelled from Russia, and two great masters from Poland: Szymon Winawer and Johannes Zukertort, also participated. Karl Pitschel, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, arrived and played his games in the first three rounds, but was unable to complete the tournament.
▪️ The eighteen collected masters constituted a field of strength that had not been seen since the Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament. The games were fiercely fought, as few draws were recorded, and a formula from this event would serve as a template for all future chess congresses in Germany before World War I.

🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Berlin 1881 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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🔸 Berlin 1881 Games Database
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🔸 Review the Shortest Game of Berlin1881 which has finished in only 12 moves!!
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☑️ Today is birthday of George Koltanowski !!
Belgian-born American chess master

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☑️ Today is birthday of George Koltanowski !!
Belgian-born American chess master

▪️ Born: September 17, 1903, Antwerp, Belgium
▪️ Died: February 5, 2000, San Francisco, California
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George Koltanowski (1903-2000) was an IM (1950) and Honorary GM (1988). He wrote over 19,000 chess columns for the San Francisco Chronicle over a period of 52 years. On Dec 4, 1960, he played 56 consecutive games blindfolded, with only ten seconds per move. He won 50 & drew 6.

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Andy Soltis v. Bobby Fischer, Manhattan Chess Club blitz, 1971.

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"The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient."

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🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Karthikeyan,Murali (2605)
⚫️Puranik,Abhimanyu (2524)
🔸½-½

25...Nf6?
This move is wrong for tactical reasons. Black should have continued with 25...Nf7! 26. Qc4 Kh8.
26.Qc4! Be6
26...Kh8 27.Nxe5! The point of Black's 25th move. 27...Qxe5 28.Nxf6
A)28...Bxf6 29. Bxg4 +-
B)28...Be6 29.Nxd7 Bxd7 30.Rb1 +-
27.Nxe5 Nxd5 28.exd5 Rxd5 29.Qxf4 +-

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Wadsworth,Matthew J (2351)
⚫️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
🔸0-1

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
⚫️Haldorsen,Benjamin (2461)
🔸1-0

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Jarmula,Lukasz (2504)
⚫️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
🔸0-1

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
⚫️Hakobyan,Aram (2554)
🔸1-0

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Harsha,Bharathakoti (2474)
⚫️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
🔸0-1

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
⚫️Firouzja,Alireza (2582)
🔸½-½