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From -5 to +10, Duda turns this dead-lost game around as White and again levels the match at 7-7 in #speedchess! 📈
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It's not over yet!!!
Duda finds an amazing checkmate to close within a game and get a chance to take this #speedchess match to overtime!
Duda finds an amazing checkmate to close within a game and get a chance to take this #speedchess match to overtime!
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O.M.G!!! 😘
The players are so hyped-up on adrenaline, they can't keep track of the clock in this chaotic final #speedchess game!
What a stunner!
The players are so hyped-up on adrenaline, they can't keep track of the clock in this chaotic final #speedchess game!
What a stunner!
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Super-GM, 20-year-old chess deity, and "most hated man in Russia" according to Daniel Rensch will (like all of us) still always be mama's little boy. 😍
#speedchess
#speedchess
♦️ GilbertSunNews has report about Steve in November 2017
♦️ Read more about this report in GilbertSunNews’s website:👇
♻️ http://gilbertsunnews.com/gilbert-boy-is-king-of-chess/ ♻️
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♦️ Read more about this report in GilbertSunNews’s website:👇
♻️ http://gilbertsunnews.com/gilbert-boy-is-king-of-chess/ ♻️
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#Chigorin_chess_quotes_001
🔸 Mikhail Chigorin
🔸 Russian Chess Master
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@unitychess
🔸 Mikhail Chigorin
🔸 Russian Chess Master
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@unitychess
#about_Chigorin
🔸 Mikhail Chigorin
🔸 Russian Chess Master
🔰 Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times.
🔘 Full name: Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin
🔘 Country: Russian Empire
🔘 Born: 12 November 1850
🔺 Gatchina, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: January 25, 1908 (aged 57)
🔺 Lublin, Lublin Governorate
🔺 Russian Empire (Congress Poland)
🔰 Chigorin was born in Gatchina but moved to nearby Saint Petersburg some time later. His father worked in the Okhtensk gunpowder works. Chigorin's parents died young and Chigorin entered the Gatchinsk Orphans' Institute at the age of 10. He became serious about chess uncommonly late in life; his school teacher taught him the moves at the age of 16, but he did not take to the game until around 1874, having first finished his studies before commencing a career as a government officer.
Once smitten with the game, he terminated his employment and started life as a chess professional. In 1876, he started a chess magazine, Chess Sheet, which he edited until 1881 (only 250 subscribers in all of Russia). He played a series of matches with established masters Emanuel Schiffers (1878–1880) and Semyon Alapin (1880) and notched up a large plus score against each. It was not long after that he was regarded as the best player in the city and possibly the whole of Russia.
His first international tournament was Berlin 1881, where he was equal third (+10−5=1) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne. This event included 17 master competitors.
♦️ A memorable game by Mikhail Chigorin against Steinitz in WCCH match 1892 which named "Much to his Chigorin" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Mikhail Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892), Havana CUB, rd 1, Jan-01
▪️ Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Slow Variation (C52)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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@unitychess
🔸 Mikhail Chigorin
🔸 Russian Chess Master
🔰 Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times.
🔘 Full name: Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin
🔘 Country: Russian Empire
🔘 Born: 12 November 1850
🔺 Gatchina, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: January 25, 1908 (aged 57)
🔺 Lublin, Lublin Governorate
🔺 Russian Empire (Congress Poland)
🔰 Chigorin was born in Gatchina but moved to nearby Saint Petersburg some time later. His father worked in the Okhtensk gunpowder works. Chigorin's parents died young and Chigorin entered the Gatchinsk Orphans' Institute at the age of 10. He became serious about chess uncommonly late in life; his school teacher taught him the moves at the age of 16, but he did not take to the game until around 1874, having first finished his studies before commencing a career as a government officer.
Once smitten with the game, he terminated his employment and started life as a chess professional. In 1876, he started a chess magazine, Chess Sheet, which he edited until 1881 (only 250 subscribers in all of Russia). He played a series of matches with established masters Emanuel Schiffers (1878–1880) and Semyon Alapin (1880) and notched up a large plus score against each. It was not long after that he was regarded as the best player in the city and possibly the whole of Russia.
His first international tournament was Berlin 1881, where he was equal third (+10−5=1) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne. This event included 17 master competitors.
♦️ A memorable game by Mikhail Chigorin against Steinitz in WCCH match 1892 which named "Much to his Chigorin" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Mikhail Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892), Havana CUB, rd 1, Jan-01
▪️ Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Slow Variation (C52)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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@unitychess
14. Qd1!?
A very interesting maneuver to transfer the queen to the a1-square. Then the pressure along the a1–h8 diagonal can be put by the quick advance f2-f4.
14...b5 15. Qa1 Nb6 16. f4 Nfd7 17. Rf2 bxa4 18. bxa4 c5 19. fxe5 dxe5 20. d5 c4 21.Ref1
White has a slight advantage.
A very interesting maneuver to transfer the queen to the a1-square. Then the pressure along the a1–h8 diagonal can be put by the quick advance f2-f4.
14...b5 15. Qa1 Nb6 16. f4 Nfd7 17. Rf2 bxa4 18. bxa4 c5 19. fxe5 dxe5 20. d5 c4 21.Ref1
White has a slight advantage.
10.a5!?
A highly committal move. White wins space on the queenside and the tempi spent on advancing the a-pawn will be retrieved thanks to the relatively unsafe situation of the bishop. At the same time, Black is deprived of the freeing move ...Na5 forever. On the other hand, Black no longer has worries on the queenside and he can even hope that at some point the a5-pawn will become weak.
The accurate move is 10...Ba7!
11.Rxa5!
An exchange sacrifice to gain the initiative.
11...Bxa5 12.dxe5 Ng4?
12...N×e4 13.Qd5 +/-
13.Bg5 Qd7 14.e6 fxe6 15.Nd4 Ne5 16.Bxe6 Qxe6 17.Nxe6 Bxe6 18.Nd2 O-O 19.Be3 b4 20.Bd4 +-
A highly committal move. White wins space on the queenside and the tempi spent on advancing the a-pawn will be retrieved thanks to the relatively unsafe situation of the bishop. At the same time, Black is deprived of the freeing move ...Na5 forever. On the other hand, Black no longer has worries on the queenside and he can even hope that at some point the a5-pawn will become weak.
The accurate move is 10...Ba7!
11.Rxa5!
An exchange sacrifice to gain the initiative.
11...Bxa5 12.dxe5 Ng4?
12...N×e4 13.Qd5 +/-
13.Bg5 Qd7 14.e6 fxe6 15.Nd4 Ne5 16.Bxe6 Qxe6 17.Nxe6 Bxe6 18.Nd2 O-O 19.Be3 b4 20.Bd4 +-
20. Bh6?!
20. b4!
A multi-purpose move:
1- opening a file on the enemy king.
2- activating his rooks.
3- weakening the opponent's knight position.
A)20...Qf5 21. Qxf5+ Nxf5 22. Ne4 +/-
B)20... Nb3 21. Rc2 Na1 22. bxc5! Nxc2 23. c6 Qe7 24. Qf5+ Kb8 25. Qxc2 +-
C)20... Qc7 21. f4 Bd6 22. Be3 +-
D)20... Kb7 21. bxc5 bxc5 22. f4 Bc7 23. Be3 +/-
20... Nf5 21. Raa1 Nxh6 22.Qxh6 Qf5 23. Rac1 Kb8 =
20. b4!
A multi-purpose move:
1- opening a file on the enemy king.
2- activating his rooks.
3- weakening the opponent's knight position.
A)20...Qf5 21. Qxf5+ Nxf5 22. Ne4 +/-
B)20... Nb3 21. Rc2 Na1 22. bxc5! Nxc2 23. c6 Qe7 24. Qf5+ Kb8 25. Qxc2 +-
C)20... Qc7 21. f4 Bd6 22. Be3 +-
D)20... Kb7 21. bxc5 bxc5 22. f4 Bc7 23. Be3 +/-
20... Nf5 21. Raa1 Nxh6 22.Qxh6 Qf5 23. Rac1 Kb8 =
21.Qb4!
The German Fide Master does not allow the opponent to take a breath.
21...Rc7 22.Qd6! Rd7 23.Qb8+ Rd8 24.Qxb7 Rd7 25.Qc8+ Rd8 26.Qc6+ Rd7 27.Re1 h5 28.Bxa6 f6 29.Rxe4 +-
The German Fide Master does not allow the opponent to take a breath.
21...Rc7 22.Qd6! Rd7 23.Qb8+ Rd8 24.Qxb7 Rd7 25.Qc8+ Rd8 26.Qc6+ Rd7 27.Re1 h5 28.Bxa6 f6 29.Rxe4 +-