The USSR team, winners of the 24th Olympiad, Malta 1980. Kasparov, Tal, Polugaevsky, Karpov, Geller, Balashov.
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At the World Junior Championship in Skien (Norway), July-August 1979, Pasman (Israel) faces Jussupow (USSR).
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The event was won by Yasser Seirawan (USA). Artur Jussupow had been champion in 1977, and runner up to Sergei Dolmatov in 1978.
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The USA beat India and look comfortable in the role of defending champions and favourites, while Russia are struggling only to drop one point today!
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🔸 Viswanathan Anand
🔸 Indian chess grandmaster
🔸 Former World Chess Champion
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🔸 Viswanathan Anand
🔸 Indian chess grandmaster
🔸 Former World Chess Champion
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✴️ #about_Anand
🔸 Viswanathan Anand
🔸 Indian chess grandmaster
🔸 Former World Chess Champion
🔰Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988. He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, thus becoming the first Asian to do so.
🔘Full name: Anand Vishwanathan
🔘Country: India
🔘Born: 11 December 1969 (age 48)
Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu
🔘Title: Grandmaster (1988)
🔘World Champion: 2000–2002 (FIDE) & 2007–2013
🔘FIDE rating: 2768 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2817 (March 2011)
🔘Ranking: No. 11 (April 2018)
🔘Peak ranking: No. 1 (April 2007)
🔰 Vishwanathan Anand was the 15th undisputed World Champion, reigning from 2007 until 2013. He was also FIDE World Champion from 2000-2002. Anand was born in 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but grew up in Chennai. His mother taught him to play chess, aged six.
🔰 As an Indian and an Asian chess player, he blazed a trail with a number of firsts, including in 1984 becoming the youngest Indian to earn the title of IM (aged 14), becoming the youngest ever Indian Champion at 16, becoming in 1987 the first Indian to win the World Junior Championship and India’s first grandmaster, and becoming India’s (and Asia’s) first World Champion. He was also the first World Champion since Robert James Fischer and the second since Max Euwe who did not originate from Russia or eastern Europe. Moreover, he was the first and only player to have won the putative world championship via knockout tournament, round robin tournament and traditional match play.
🔰 Anand played board 4 for India in 1984, and top board in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2004, 2006 and 2018 (Batumi), winning a silver medal on top board in 2004.
♦️ A memorable and recent game in 43rd Chess Olympiad (2018) by Anand 👇
▪️ Viswanathan Anand vs Markus Ragger
▪️ 43rd Chess Olympiad (2018), Batumi GEO, rd 2, Sep-25
▪️ Italian Game: Classical Variation. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Viswanathan Anand
🔸 Indian chess grandmaster
🔸 Former World Chess Champion
🔰Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988. He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, thus becoming the first Asian to do so.
🔘Full name: Anand Vishwanathan
🔘Country: India
🔘Born: 11 December 1969 (age 48)
Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu
🔘Title: Grandmaster (1988)
🔘World Champion: 2000–2002 (FIDE) & 2007–2013
🔘FIDE rating: 2768 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2817 (March 2011)
🔘Ranking: No. 11 (April 2018)
🔘Peak ranking: No. 1 (April 2007)
🔰 Vishwanathan Anand was the 15th undisputed World Champion, reigning from 2007 until 2013. He was also FIDE World Champion from 2000-2002. Anand was born in 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but grew up in Chennai. His mother taught him to play chess, aged six.
🔰 As an Indian and an Asian chess player, he blazed a trail with a number of firsts, including in 1984 becoming the youngest Indian to earn the title of IM (aged 14), becoming the youngest ever Indian Champion at 16, becoming in 1987 the first Indian to win the World Junior Championship and India’s first grandmaster, and becoming India’s (and Asia’s) first World Champion. He was also the first World Champion since Robert James Fischer and the second since Max Euwe who did not originate from Russia or eastern Europe. Moreover, he was the first and only player to have won the putative world championship via knockout tournament, round robin tournament and traditional match play.
🔰 Anand played board 4 for India in 1984, and top board in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2004, 2006 and 2018 (Batumi), winning a silver medal on top board in 2004.
♦️ A memorable and recent game in 43rd Chess Olympiad (2018) by Anand 👇
▪️ Viswanathan Anand vs Markus Ragger
▪️ 43rd Chess Olympiad (2018), Batumi GEO, rd 2, Sep-25
▪️ Italian Game: Classical Variation. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Viswanathan Anand - Markus Ragger, 3rd Chess Olympiad (2018)
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54... Rxf5+??
Vachier was lucky that his opponent made such a strange blunder.
54... Ra3! =
An amazing defensive resource.
A) 55. f6 Ra6 56. Kg5 Rxf6 57. Kxf6 Kd3 =
B) 55. Re4+ Kd5 56. Rxe3 Rxe3 57. Kxe3 Ke5 =
C) 55.Kg4 Kd3 56.f6 Ra7 57.Kf3 Rf7 58.R×e3+ Kd4 59.Re6 Kd5 60.Rb6 Ke5 =
55. Kxf5 Kd3 56. Kf4 1-0
Vachier was lucky that his opponent made such a strange blunder.
54... Ra3! =
An amazing defensive resource.
A) 55. f6 Ra6 56. Kg5 Rxf6 57. Kxf6 Kd3 =
B) 55. Re4+ Kd5 56. Rxe3 Rxe3 57. Kxe3 Ke5 =
C) 55.Kg4 Kd3 56.f6 Ra7 57.Kf3 Rf7 58.R×e3+ Kd4 59.Re6 Kd5 60.Rb6 Ke5 =
55. Kxf5 Kd3 56. Kf4 1-0
37... Bb2??
Van Foreest did not need to complicate the game. He should have continued with 37...Bb4 or 37...Kg7.
38. Bxb2 Nc4+ 39. Ke2 Nxb2 40.Bb3!
The knight is trapped.
40...b6 41. Kd2 h6 42. Kc3 Nxa4+ 43. Bxa4 Kf8 44. Kd3 Ke7 45. Ke3 Kf8 46. Kf4 Kg7 1-0
Van Foreest did not need to complicate the game. He should have continued with 37...Bb4 or 37...Kg7.
38. Bxb2 Nc4+ 39. Ke2 Nxb2 40.Bb3!
The knight is trapped.
40...b6 41. Kd2 h6 42. Kc3 Nxa4+ 43. Bxa4 Kf8 44. Kd3 Ke7 45. Ke3 Kf8 46. Kf4 Kg7 1-0
40... Be5 !
A superb and spectacular move by Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja. Now the threat is ...Rxg3.
40... Rxg3?? 41. Qxd4+ Qxd4 42. Bxd4+ R3g7 43. Rxd6 +-
41. Qe2
41. fxe5 Rxg3 42. Qxd4 Rxh3+! 43. Kg1 Nf3+! 44. Rxf3! Rxg2+ 45. Kxg2 Qxf3+ 46. Kg1 Rh1#
41... Bf6 42. Nh5 d3! 43. Qa2 Qe4 44. Ba5 Rxg2 45. Rxg2 Rxg2 46. Nxf6 Qf3 0-1
A superb and spectacular move by Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja. Now the threat is ...Rxg3.
40... Rxg3?? 41. Qxd4+ Qxd4 42. Bxd4+ R3g7 43. Rxd6 +-
41. Qe2
41. fxe5 Rxg3 42. Qxd4 Rxh3+! 43. Kg1 Nf3+! 44. Rxf3! Rxg2+ 45. Kxg2 Qxf3+ 46. Kg1 Rh1#
41... Bf6 42. Nh5 d3! 43. Qa2 Qe4 44. Ba5 Rxg2 45. Rxg2 Rxg2 46. Nxf6 Qf3 0-1
37. Qc4??
A fatal blunder.
35-year-old Slovenian GM overlooked an important intermediate move.
The correct is 37. Qd2! Qg1+ 38. Kf3 h4 39. e6 fxe6 40. Qd8 =
37... h4+! 38. Kh2
38. Kxh4 Qf2+ 39. Kg4 Qg2+ 40. Kh4 g5+ 41. fxg5+ Qxg5#
38... Qf2+ 39. Kh1 Qf3+ 1-0
if 40. Kg1 Qxe3+ 41. Kg2 Qg3+ 42. Kf1 Qxh3+
0-1
A fatal blunder.
35-year-old Slovenian GM overlooked an important intermediate move.
The correct is 37. Qd2! Qg1+ 38. Kf3 h4 39. e6 fxe6 40. Qd8 =
37... h4+! 38. Kh2
38. Kxh4 Qf2+ 39. Kg4 Qg2+ 40. Kh4 g5+ 41. fxg5+ Qxg5#
38... Qf2+ 39. Kh1 Qf3+ 1-0
if 40. Kg1 Qxe3+ 41. Kg2 Qg3+ 42. Kf1 Qxh3+
0-1