25.d6!? [White has a better way to exploit Black's somewhat awkward piece coordination.]
[25.Nb5! Qf6 26.Qxf6 Nxf6 27.Nxa7 Kf8 28.Nb5 Re5 29.Nc3 Ke7 30.Kh2 Kd6 31.Rd4 Re1 (31...Nxd5? 32.f4 Rf5 33.g4 Rxf4 34.Rd2+β) 32.Rc4Β±; 25.Nc6 Re1+ 26.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 27.Kg2 Qe8 28.Nxa7 Nc5 29.Qf3 Ne6 30.Nc6 Ng5 31.Qf5 Bxc6 32.dxc6 Qxc6+ 33.Bd5 Qe8 34.h4 Nh7=]
25...Nf6 26.Kh2 Qb2 27.Nc2 Qc3 28.Nd4 Qb2 29.d7 Rd8 30.Nf5 Be4 [30...Rxd7 31.Rxd7 Nxd7 32.Nxh6+ Kh7 33.Nxf7+β]
31.Nd6 Bg6 32.Nc4 Qe2 33.Ne5 Kh7 34.g4 b5 35.Qe3 Qb2 36.Kg1 b4 37.Nxg6 1β0
[25.Nb5! Qf6 26.Qxf6 Nxf6 27.Nxa7 Kf8 28.Nb5 Re5 29.Nc3 Ke7 30.Kh2 Kd6 31.Rd4 Re1 (31...Nxd5? 32.f4 Rf5 33.g4 Rxf4 34.Rd2+β) 32.Rc4Β±; 25.Nc6 Re1+ 26.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 27.Kg2 Qe8 28.Nxa7 Nc5 29.Qf3 Ne6 30.Nc6 Ng5 31.Qf5 Bxc6 32.dxc6 Qxc6+ 33.Bd5 Qe8 34.h4 Nh7=]
25...Nf6 26.Kh2 Qb2 27.Nc2 Qc3 28.Nd4 Qb2 29.d7 Rd8 30.Nf5 Be4 [30...Rxd7 31.Rxd7 Nxd7 32.Nxh6+ Kh7 33.Nxf7+β]
31.Nd6 Bg6 32.Nc4 Qe2 33.Ne5 Kh7 34.g4 b5 35.Qe3 Qb2 36.Kg1 b4 37.Nxg6 1β0
49.Nh5!? [49.Qa8+! Kh7 50.Qe4+ Kh8 51.Ngf5 Qd8 52.Nd5 Ra5 53.Nd6 Qf8 (53...Qxd6 54.Qe8+ Kh7 55.Ne7+β) 54.Ne7 Ra1 55.Nef5 Rc1 56.Qe3 Rc6 57.Qe5 Rc7 58.Ne8 Rc8 59.Nexg7 Qc5 60.Qf4; 49.Qe4 Ra5 50.h4 Re5 51.Qa8+ Kh7 52.Nh5Β²]
49...Rb3 50.Qe4 Qb7 51.Nd5 Rb5 52.Qe8+ Kh7 53.Qe4+ Kh8 54.Qe8+ [54.Nhf4 Qd7=]
54...Kh7 55.Qe4+ Kh8 56.Qe8+ Β½βΒ½
49...Rb3 50.Qe4 Qb7 51.Nd5 Rb5 52.Qe8+ Kh7 53.Qe4+ Kh8 54.Qe8+ [54.Nhf4 Qd7=]
54...Kh7 55.Qe4+ Kh8 56.Qe8+ Β½βΒ½
Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 76
public poll
A)Qa2 β 9
πππππππ 90%
@M_R_alizadeh2000, @ehsanmec, Seyed Hossein Ali, Nikhil, @h_a_d_I_1169, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, Ω Ψ¬ΫΨ―, Sanjana
C)Rg6 β 1
π 10%
Alok
B)Bd4
β«οΈ 0%
π₯ 10 people voted so far.
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A)Qa2 β 9
πππππππ 90%
@M_R_alizadeh2000, @ehsanmec, Seyed Hossein Ali, Nikhil, @h_a_d_I_1169, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, Ω Ψ¬ΫΨ―, Sanjana
C)Rg6 β 1
π 10%
Alok
B)Bd4
β«οΈ 0%
π₯ 10 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 76
public poll
A)d6 β 9
πππππππ 53%
@M_R_alizadeh2000, @flowchess, Seyed Hossein Ali, @h_a_d_I_1169, Alok, Ω Ψ¬ΫΨ―, @Gm_Mr, @WataxPin, Sanjana
C)Kd3 β 6
πππππ 35%
Ss, @Mahernoz, @abas2048, @Kasra_Germany, @Sophia_Peng, Atharva
B)Bh3 β 2
ππ 12%
Nikhil, @RichardPeng
π₯ 17 people voted so far.
public poll
A)d6 β 9
πππππππ 53%
@M_R_alizadeh2000, @flowchess, Seyed Hossein Ali, @h_a_d_I_1169, Alok, Ω Ψ¬ΫΨ―, @Gm_Mr, @WataxPin, Sanjana
C)Kd3 β 6
πππππ 35%
Ss, @Mahernoz, @abas2048, @Kasra_Germany, @Sophia_Peng, Atharva
B)Bh3 β 2
ππ 12%
Nikhil, @RichardPeng
π₯ 17 people voted so far.
The inventors of the opening system that has featured in games 8, 10 & 12 of #CarlsenCaruana - Gennady Timoshchenko & Evgeny Sveshnikov.
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πΈ Aron Nimzowitsch
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Wijk aan Zee, 31st January 1970. The decisive final-round encounter between Mark Taimanov (USSR) and Vlastimil Hort (ΔSSR). Taimanov won, to take first place ahead of Hort by 1Β½ points.
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π΄ Today is birthday of Vladimir Malakhov!!
Russian chess grandmaster
πΊπΉπβοΈπΈπ· Happy birthday πππππ
π΅ Today is also birthday of:
β¦οΈ Valery Chekhov , Russian chess grandmaster!!
And
β¦οΈ Vlastimil Jansa, Czech chess grandmaster!!
β€οΈ Happy birthday to all ππππΊπΉπ
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πΊπΉπβοΈπΈπ· Happy birthday πππππ
π΅ Today is also birthday of:
β¦οΈ Valery Chekhov , Russian chess grandmaster!!
And
β¦οΈ Vlastimil Jansa, Czech chess grandmaster!!
β€οΈ Happy birthday to all ππππΊπΉπ
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π΅ Chess History - Tournaments
πΉ AVRO 1938
#avro1938
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π΅ Chess History - Tournaments
πΉ AVRO 1938
#avro1938
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π· Chess History - Tournaments
πΉ AVRO 1938
πΉ By Dutch broadcasting company AVRO
πΉ November 6 - 27
πΉ Paul Keres | 8.5/14 (+3 -0 =11) |
π° The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament between the eight strongest players in the world.
Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue of his 1Β½-Β½ score in their individual games.
The tournament was presented as one to provide a challenger to World Champion Alexander Alekhine, though it had no official status. In any event, World War II dashed any hopes of a championship match for years to come. However, when FIDE organised its 1948 match tournament for the world title after Alekhine's death in 1946, it invited the six surviving AVRO participants (Capablanca had also died), except Flohr who was replaced by Vasily Smyslov.
The longest game was a 68-move win of Fine over Alekhine. The shortest game was a 19-move draw between Flohr and Fine. Of the 56 games played: White won seventeen, Black won seven, and thirty-two were drawn
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βΌοΈ About Capablanca in this tournament:
Capablanca's play was satisfactory in the first half of the event (50%), but collapsed in the second half, when he lost three games. He had only lost 26 tournament games in 29 years. Hooper and Whyld say "he suffered a slight stroke". His wife Olga recalled that his high blood pressure nearly cost him his life: "A doctor screamed at me, 'How could you let him play?'" (at AVRO 1938). In a 1939 interview Capablanca attributed his performance to "very high blood pressure and related circulatory disorders". His doctor wrote that he had dangerously high blood pressure while he was treating him from 1940 until his death in 1942, and believed that it contributed to his death.
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π° AVRO (Algemeene Vereeniging voor Radio Omroep - literally the General Association for Radio Broadcasting) brought together the World Champion and every one of his major challengers. It ran from the 6th to the 27th of November 1938 with the players based in Amsterdam and each successive round played in a different Dutch town.
π SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM & WIKIPEDIA
β¦οΈ The final standings and crosstable was as aboveπ
β¦οΈ Download "AVRO 1938" Games database by PGN formatπ
β¦οΈ Review our selected short game from this tournamentπ
βͺοΈ Paul Keres vs Jose Raul Capablanca
βͺοΈ AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 6, Nov-14
βͺοΈ French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System Main Line (C09)
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πΉ AVRO 1938
πΉ By Dutch broadcasting company AVRO
πΉ November 6 - 27
πΉ Paul Keres | 8.5/14 (+3 -0 =11) |
π° The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament between the eight strongest players in the world.
Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue of his 1Β½-Β½ score in their individual games.
The tournament was presented as one to provide a challenger to World Champion Alexander Alekhine, though it had no official status. In any event, World War II dashed any hopes of a championship match for years to come. However, when FIDE organised its 1948 match tournament for the world title after Alekhine's death in 1946, it invited the six surviving AVRO participants (Capablanca had also died), except Flohr who was replaced by Vasily Smyslov.
The longest game was a 68-move win of Fine over Alekhine. The shortest game was a 19-move draw between Flohr and Fine. Of the 56 games played: White won seventeen, Black won seven, and thirty-two were drawn
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
βΌοΈ About Capablanca in this tournament:
Capablanca's play was satisfactory in the first half of the event (50%), but collapsed in the second half, when he lost three games. He had only lost 26 tournament games in 29 years. Hooper and Whyld say "he suffered a slight stroke". His wife Olga recalled that his high blood pressure nearly cost him his life: "A doctor screamed at me, 'How could you let him play?'" (at AVRO 1938). In a 1939 interview Capablanca attributed his performance to "very high blood pressure and related circulatory disorders". His doctor wrote that he had dangerously high blood pressure while he was treating him from 1940 until his death in 1942, and believed that it contributed to his death.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
π° AVRO (Algemeene Vereeniging voor Radio Omroep - literally the General Association for Radio Broadcasting) brought together the World Champion and every one of his major challengers. It ran from the 6th to the 27th of November 1938 with the players based in Amsterdam and each successive round played in a different Dutch town.
π SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM & WIKIPEDIA
β¦οΈ The final standings and crosstable was as aboveπ
β¦οΈ Download "AVRO 1938" Games database by PGN formatπ
β¦οΈ Review our selected short game from this tournamentπ
βͺοΈ Paul Keres vs Jose Raul Capablanca
βͺοΈ AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 6, Nov-14
βͺοΈ French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System Main Line (C09)
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