22...b4! [Black opens the position. If pawns are on both sides of the board, a bishop often gets a lot stronger than knights.]
[22...Ra8 23.Rxa8 Bxa8 24.f3 Kd6 25.Na6 g5 26.Kf2 e5 27.dxe5+ Kxe5 28.Nb4 h5 29.Ke3 f6 30.g3 Kd6 31.f4 Kc5 32.fxg5 fxg5 33.Kd3 Bb7= The position is simplified and Black cannot achieve anything.; 22...e5 23.Ra7+ Kd6 (23...Ke8 24.Na6! (24.dxe5 Rc8 25.Na6 Rxc3 26.f3 Kd8 27.Nb4 Be6 And White's task is not easy to reach a draw.) 24...Rd8 25.Nc7+ Kf8 26.dxe5 Bc4 27.f4²) 24.Ra6+ Ke7 25.Ra7+=]
23.Rb1 b3 24.f3 b2?! [24...Bc4 25.Kf2 Kd6 26.Ke3 Kc6 27.Rb2 e5 28.f4 exf4+ 29.Kxf4 Kd5=/+]
25.Nd3 Rb3 26.Rxb2 Rxc3 27.Nf4 [27.Nb4 Bb3 28.Kf2 With some drawing chances.]
27...Bc6 28.Rd2 g5 29.Ne2 Ra3 30.Kf2 Kd6 31.Rc2 Rd3 32.Ra2 h6 33.Ke1 Bb5 34.Rb2 Bc4 35.Rd2 Kd5 36.Rxd3 Bxd3 37.Ng3 Kxd4 38.Kd2 e5 39.Nh5 e4 40.fxe4 Bxe4 41.g4 Bf3 42.h3 Bg2 43.Ng3 Bxh3 44.Nf5+ Ke5 45.Nxh6 Kf6 46.Ke3 Kg6 47.Nf5 Bxg4 48.Ne7+ Kf6 49.Nc6 Bd7 50.Nd4 Ke5 51.Nf3+ Kf5 52.Nd4+ Kg4 53.Kf2 Be6 54.Ne2 Bd5 55.Nc3 Bc6 56.Ne2 f5 57.Nd4 Bd5 58.Ne2 Bc4 59.Ng3 Bd3 60.Nh1 f4 61.Kg1 Kf3 62.Kh2 g4 63.Kg1 g3 64.Nxg3 Kxg3 0–1
[22...Ra8 23.Rxa8 Bxa8 24.f3 Kd6 25.Na6 g5 26.Kf2 e5 27.dxe5+ Kxe5 28.Nb4 h5 29.Ke3 f6 30.g3 Kd6 31.f4 Kc5 32.fxg5 fxg5 33.Kd3 Bb7= The position is simplified and Black cannot achieve anything.; 22...e5 23.Ra7+ Kd6 (23...Ke8 24.Na6! (24.dxe5 Rc8 25.Na6 Rxc3 26.f3 Kd8 27.Nb4 Be6 And White's task is not easy to reach a draw.) 24...Rd8 25.Nc7+ Kf8 26.dxe5 Bc4 27.f4²) 24.Ra6+ Ke7 25.Ra7+=]
23.Rb1 b3 24.f3 b2?! [24...Bc4 25.Kf2 Kd6 26.Ke3 Kc6 27.Rb2 e5 28.f4 exf4+ 29.Kxf4 Kd5=/+]
25.Nd3 Rb3 26.Rxb2 Rxc3 27.Nf4 [27.Nb4 Bb3 28.Kf2 With some drawing chances.]
27...Bc6 28.Rd2 g5 29.Ne2 Ra3 30.Kf2 Kd6 31.Rc2 Rd3 32.Ra2 h6 33.Ke1 Bb5 34.Rb2 Bc4 35.Rd2 Kd5 36.Rxd3 Bxd3 37.Ng3 Kxd4 38.Kd2 e5 39.Nh5 e4 40.fxe4 Bxe4 41.g4 Bf3 42.h3 Bg2 43.Ng3 Bxh3 44.Nf5+ Ke5 45.Nxh6 Kf6 46.Ke3 Kg6 47.Nf5 Bxg4 48.Ne7+ Kf6 49.Nc6 Bd7 50.Nd4 Ke5 51.Nf3+ Kf5 52.Nd4+ Kg4 53.Kf2 Be6 54.Ne2 Bd5 55.Nc3 Bc6 56.Ne2 f5 57.Nd4 Bd5 58.Ne2 Bc4 59.Ng3 Bd3 60.Nh1 f4 61.Kg1 Kf3 62.Kh2 g4 63.Kg1 g3 64.Nxg3 Kxg3 0–1
Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 7
public poll
C: R2e3 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 77%
España 🇪🇸, Fatemeh, @payam6661, @Toukennn, @MRAghar, @Afshin3333, Nikhil, Jayden, Mahathi, Matthew
A: Rc2 – 2
👍 15%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @AryanLeekha
B: Re1 – 1
👍 8%
Zhenrui
👥 13 people voted so far.
public poll
C: R2e3 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 77%
España 🇪🇸, Fatemeh, @payam6661, @Toukennn, @MRAghar, @Afshin3333, Nikhil, Jayden, Mahathi, Matthew
A: Rc2 – 2
👍 15%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @AryanLeekha
B: Re1 – 1
👍 8%
Zhenrui
👥 13 people voted so far.
✴️ Today is birthday of Curt Hansen!!
Danish chess grandmaster
🌺 🌹🌷🌸💐☘️🌹 Happy birthday Dear Master Hansen!! 👏👏👏👏
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Danish chess grandmaster
🌺 🌹🌷🌸💐☘️🌹 Happy birthday Dear Master Hansen!! 👏👏👏👏
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✅ #Smyslov_chess_quotes_003
♻️ Vasily Smyslov
♻️ Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
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♻️ Vasily Smyslov
♻️ Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
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✴️ #about_Smyslov
🔸 Vasily Smyslov
🔸 Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
♦️ Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions.
🔘 Full name: Vasily Vasilyevich (Vasilievich) Smyslov
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
🔘 Born: 24 March 1921
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: 27 March 2010 (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 World Champion: 1957–58
🔘 Peak rating: 2620 (July 1971)
🔰 Smyslov twice tied for first place at the Soviet Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
🔰 Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.
🔰 Smyslov first became interested in chess at the age of six. His father, Vasily Osipovich Smyslov, worked as an engineering technician and had represented the St. Petersburg Technical Institute in intercollegiate chess competitions. Smyslov's father had also studied chess for a time under the tutelage of Mikhail Chigorin and the senior Smyslov became the boy's first teacher. The elder Smyslov gave his son a copy of Alexander Alekhine's book My Best Games of Chess 1908–1923 and the future world champion would later write that this book became his constant reference.
♦️ A memorable game by Smyslov against Karpov in USSR Championship 1971 which named "Vasillage" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Vasily Smyslov vs Anatoly Karpov
▪️ USSR Championship (1971), Leningrad URS, rd 9, Sep-27
▪️ Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔸 Vasily Smyslov
🔸 Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
♦️ Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions.
🔘 Full name: Vasily Vasilyevich (Vasilievich) Smyslov
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
🔘 Born: 24 March 1921
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: 27 March 2010 (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 World Champion: 1957–58
🔘 Peak rating: 2620 (July 1971)
🔰 Smyslov twice tied for first place at the Soviet Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
🔰 Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.
🔰 Smyslov first became interested in chess at the age of six. His father, Vasily Osipovich Smyslov, worked as an engineering technician and had represented the St. Petersburg Technical Institute in intercollegiate chess competitions. Smyslov's father had also studied chess for a time under the tutelage of Mikhail Chigorin and the senior Smyslov became the boy's first teacher. The elder Smyslov gave his son a copy of Alexander Alekhine's book My Best Games of Chess 1908–1923 and the future world champion would later write that this book became his constant reference.
♦️ A memorable game by Smyslov against Karpov in USSR Championship 1971 which named "Vasillage" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Vasily Smyslov vs Anatoly Karpov
▪️ USSR Championship (1971), Leningrad URS, rd 9, Sep-27
▪️ Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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@Smyslov-Karpov-1971.pgn
611 B
▪️ Vasily Smyslov - Anatoly Karpov, USSR Championship (1971)
▪️ PGN format
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▪️ PGN format
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 7
public poll
B: Nb1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
Mehdi, @Anasiri6889, @mahyarebrahimi1983, Nikhil, Jayden, @AryanLeekha, Mahathi, Zhenrui
A: Qa2 – 1
👍 10%
España 🇪🇸
C: h4 – 1
👍 10%
@chessnoob
👥 10 people voted so far.
public poll
B: Nb1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
Mehdi, @Anasiri6889, @mahyarebrahimi1983, Nikhil, Jayden, @AryanLeekha, Mahathi, Zhenrui
A: Qa2 – 1
👍 10%
España 🇪🇸
C: h4 – 1
👍 10%
@chessnoob
👥 10 people voted so far.
🔹 On August 20, 2018 the Kyrgyz Republic puts into circulation a Kyrgyz Express Post postage stamp: “43rd Chess Olympiad”.
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🔵 43rd Chess Olympiad Chess Tournament
🔹 Batumi, Georgia, 23 September - 6 October 2018
🔷 On August 20, 2018 the State Committee of Information Technology and Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic puts into circulation a Kyrgyz Express Post postage stamp: “43rd Chess Olympiad”.
Chess is a very popular sport. Millions of people on the planet play this ancient, intellectual game. The World Chess Federation (FIDE), since 1927, organizes official Chess Olympiads. Since 1950, they are held once every two years. Georgia has always been famous for its chess players, so it is not surprising that this country received the honor of hosting the 43rd Chess Olympiad. As in 2016, the team from Kyrgyzstan participates in the Chess Olympiad.
🔹 STAMP DESCRIPTION👇
No. 102. 100 KGS. A chessboard and pieces against a background of a world map, as well as the logo of the Kyrgyz Chess Federation.
🔹 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 👇
▪️ Paper: coated, gummed, 105 g/m2.
▪️ Printing method: full-color offset lithography.
▪️ Stamp perforation: comb 14:14½.
▪️ Stamp size: 46.00 x 27.50 mm.
▪️ Sheet size: 113.00 x 108.00 mm.
▪️ Stamp is issued in sheetlets of 4 stamps + 2 labels.
▪️On the sheet borders there are names of the series in Kyrgyz and English languages and images of Batumi architectural sights. The labels in the sheet center depict two different chess combinations and a gold cup.
▪️ Quantity issued: 6 000 pieces.
▪️ Designer: Aliona Cojocari.
▪️ Printer House: “Nova Imprim”.
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🔹 Batumi, Georgia, 23 September - 6 October 2018
🔷 On August 20, 2018 the State Committee of Information Technology and Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic puts into circulation a Kyrgyz Express Post postage stamp: “43rd Chess Olympiad”.
Chess is a very popular sport. Millions of people on the planet play this ancient, intellectual game. The World Chess Federation (FIDE), since 1927, organizes official Chess Olympiads. Since 1950, they are held once every two years. Georgia has always been famous for its chess players, so it is not surprising that this country received the honor of hosting the 43rd Chess Olympiad. As in 2016, the team from Kyrgyzstan participates in the Chess Olympiad.
🔹 STAMP DESCRIPTION👇
No. 102. 100 KGS. A chessboard and pieces against a background of a world map, as well as the logo of the Kyrgyz Chess Federation.
🔹 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 👇
▪️ Paper: coated, gummed, 105 g/m2.
▪️ Printing method: full-color offset lithography.
▪️ Stamp perforation: comb 14:14½.
▪️ Stamp size: 46.00 x 27.50 mm.
▪️ Sheet size: 113.00 x 108.00 mm.
▪️ Stamp is issued in sheetlets of 4 stamps + 2 labels.
▪️On the sheet borders there are names of the series in Kyrgyz and English languages and images of Batumi architectural sights. The labels in the sheet center depict two different chess combinations and a gold cup.
▪️ Quantity issued: 6 000 pieces.
▪️ Designer: Aliona Cojocari.
▪️ Printer House: “Nova Imprim”.
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@unitychess
From 'Chess in the USSR' (No. 4, 1976) - a report, by Mikhail Yudovich, on the USSR Under-18 Championship that took place in Tbilisi in January of that year. First place was taken on tie-break by the 13-year-old Garry kasparov.
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