Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 30
public poll

B) 69...Nh5 – 8
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Jonas, Gavin, @Afshin3333, Vincent, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Zhenrui

A) 69...Kf4 – 4
👍👍👍👍 31%
@SteveWongso, @MerissaWongso, @Somebody_Sophia, Rachel

C) 69...Ne4 – 1
👍 8%
Srikar

👥 13 people voted so far.

Speed Chess Championship: Can MVL Ride Nakamura's Red Bull?

Journalist and grandmaster Salo Flohr. Date and place unknown, but possibly during the Alekhine-Euwe match for the World Championship, 1935.

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Youth World Championship Antwerpen 1955

Boris Spassky (USSR) - Miguel Farre Mallofre (Spain)

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Bewerwijk, 7th January 1964. Grandmasters Hein Donner (Netherlands) & Paul Keres (USSR).

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Judit Polgar (Hungary) Receiving Her Award for Taking First at the 1995 Isle of Lewis, Scotland, Chess Tournament.

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🏁✅ Epic Chess battle between two of the best chess players ever.

(Kasparov vs Short!).

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♦️ Today is birthday of Ruslan Ponomariov!!
Ukrainian chess grandmaster

❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday Dear Ruslan !! 👏👏👏👏
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#Ragozin

🔹 Viacheslav Ragozin
🔹 Soviet chess Grandmaster
🔹 International Chess Arbiter
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#Ragozin

🔹 Viacheslav Ragozin
🔹 Soviet chess Grandmaster
🔹 International Chess Arbiter

🔰 Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspondence Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and editor.

Ragozin was born in St. Petersburg. Awarded the GM title in 1950 and the GMC title in 1959 when he won the 2nd World Correspondence Chess Championship (1956) - (1959), he also won the Leningrad Championship in 1936 and 1945.
He played board 8 (out of 10) against Herbert Seidman in the historic USA-USSR radio match in September 1945, beating Seidman 2-0.
Ragozin was for many years the sparring partner of Mikhail Botvinnik and contributed significantly to his successes. He worked actively for FIDE (the World Chess Federation), edited Shakhmaty v SSSR magazine and wrote an excellent book on the 1st Botvinnik - Tal Match in 1960.
Ragozin died in Moscow in 1962 whilst compiling Izbrannye Partii Ragozina, a collection of his own games. The book was completed by his friends under the editorship of M. Beilin and finally published in 1964.

🔘 Born: 8 October 1908
🔺 St.Petersburg, Imperial Russia
🔘 Died: 11 March 1962 (aged 53)
🔺 Moscow, Russian SFSR
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1950)
🔺 International Arbiter (1951)
🔺 ICCF Grandmaster (1959)
🔘 ICCF World Champion: 1956–59

♦️ A memorable game by Ragozin has won by positional sacrificing Queen with two pieces!!👇
🔸 Miguel Najdorf vs Viacheslav Ragozin
🔸 Saltsjöbaden Interzonal (1948), Stockholm SWE, rd 16, Aug-08
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Russian. Smyslov Variation (D98)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Miguel Najdorf vs Viacheslav Ragozin
🔸 Stockholm1948
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#speedchess legend Hikaru Nakamura and French number-1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave battle today! ⚡️😃⚡️

Who will win and advance to the semifinals? 🤔

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