⚫️#22 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Duda Jan-Krzysztof (2739)
🔸Reyes Najera Carlos A. (2149)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 22
public poll

A) 60...Bd8 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%
Vincent, @YaminiG, @MerissaWongso, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, مجید, Hansika

B) 60...Nxh5 – 1
👍 13%
Rachel

C) 60...Kd6
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

U.S. Team with Fritz Brieger at the 1937 Stockholm, Sweden, Chess Olympiad
L to R: Samuel Reshevsky, Al Horowitz, Fritz Brieger (Sponsor), Frank Marshall, Reuben Fine, and Isaac Kashdan.

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1937 marked both the last year the United States would win team gold in the 1930s and the debut of former chess prodigy Grandmaster (GM) Samuel Reshevsky in the competition. Reshevsky, who immigrated to the United States from Poland in 1920, had only returned to competitive chess in 1933 after leaving it to focus on his education. In his childhood, he had earned fame across the country for his performance in simultaneous matches, emerging victorious against opponents who were much older than him. One of his early supporters, GM Frank Marshall, was also on the team. Marshall and International Master Al Horowitz ended the competition undefeated. Unfortunately, this would be the last time the United States participated in the competition before World War II. In 1939, Buenos Aires, Argentina, hosted the Chess Olympiad, the American team was not able to attend due to funding issues. The competition would then go on hiatus during the entirety of World War II, and the United States would not win team gold again until 1976.

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Pia Cramling (Sweden) Competing at the 1984 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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Pia Cramling won the individual gold medal on Board One in the 1984 Thessaloniki, Greece, Women’s Chess Olympiad. Like her contemporary, Judit Polgar, Cramling would later begin to represent her country in the open section of the Chess Olympiads (1990, 1992, 1996, and 2000).

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U.S. Team Competes against the Soviet Team at the 1988 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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GM Yasser Seirawan vs. GM Garry Kasparov as GM Anatoly Karpov Watches at the 1988 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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♦️ Today is birthday of Ye Rongguang!!
The first Chinese chess grandmaster

❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday Dear Master Rongguang 👏👏👏👏
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC

🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Moscow 1940

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🔷 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Moscow 1940 (12th Soviet Chess Championship)
🔹 September 5 - October 3
🔹 CHAMPION: Igor Bondarevsky | 13½/19 (+10−2=7) |
Shared with: Andor Lilienthal | 13½/19 (+8−0=11) |

🔰 The 12th Soviet Chess Championship was played in the capital city of Moscow from September 5 to October 3, 1940. Twenty of the Soviet Union's strongest masters competed in the round robin event, six of whom qualified from the semi-final tournament in Kiev earlier in the year:
🔅 Eduard Gerstenfeld
🔅 Mark Stolberg
🔅 Igor Bondarevsky
🔅 Iosif Rudakovsky
🔅 Alexander Konstantinopolsky
🔅 Peter Dubinin
The remaining invitations went to the elite of Soviet chess (new and old), including:
🔅 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔅 Vasily Smyslov
🔅 Paul Keres
🔅 Isaac Boleslavsky
🔅 Alexander Kotov
🔅 Viacheslav Ragozin
🔅 Andre Lilienthal
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♦️Mikhail Botvinnik won the Absolute Championship:👇
23 Mar–29 Apr 1941, Leningrad/Moscow, 13½/20 (+9−2=9)
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🔰In Moscow 1940 Lilienthal and Bondarevsky finished equal first with 13½/19. For both victors, considering the strength of the assembled field, it was the greatest performance of their careers.

♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "Moscow 1940 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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▪️ Moscow 1940 Games Database
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♦️ Review our selected game from Moscow 1940👇

🔸 Peter Vasilievich Dubinin vs Igor Bondarevsky
🔸 USSR Championship (1940), Moscow URS, rd 7, Sep-13
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense. General (D58)
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Poland's takedown of the USA is good news for the chasing pack...

with Armenia, China, England (and the US) just a point behind the leaders, and Russia, France, Croatia and Germany 2 points back & still in the fight for #BatumiChess2018 medals with 2 rounds to go!