Duda gets a big win as Black with a King's Indian-esque attack and drops his deficit to five games, but he has an uphill climb to get chances to save this #speedchess match against So!

So many missed opportunities 😭

Nothing goes right for Duda today as he loses 20-7 against Wesley So, and misses many pretty wins in the final game.

🔵 Today is birthday of Akiba Rubinstein!!
🔹 Polish chess grandmaster


▪️ Born: December 1, 1880, Stawiski, Poland
▪️ Died: March 14, 1961, Antwerp, Belgium
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Almost exactly 40 years ago (1st December 1978), the 46th USSR Championship final started in Tbilisi. Among the participants (R to L): Polugaevsky, Giorgadze, Beliavsky, Timoshchenko and a 15-year-old debutant from Baku ...kasparov

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Playground scholars, Jacksonville, 1961. State Library and Archives of Florida.

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Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988. Boris Gulko, Irina Levitina and Artur Yusupov.

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◼️ Rubinstein's Immortal Game

▪️ Georg Rotlewi vs Akiba Rubinstein
▪️ Lodz (1907), Lodz RUE, rd 6, Dec-26
▪️ Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical Variation (D32)

♦️ Download annotated PGN file👇
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▪️ Georg Rotlewi vs Akiba Rubinstein
▪️ PGN format
▪️ Notes by Carl Schlechter and Dr. Savielly Tartakower
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#Horowitz

♻️ Israel Albert Horowitz
♻️ American chess International Master
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✅ About Horowitz

♻️ Israel Albert Horowitz
♻️ American chess International Master

🔰 Israel Albert Horowitz was a Jewish-American International Master of chess. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess.

Horowitz was a leading player in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s. He was U.S. Open Champion in 1936, 1938, and 1943. In 1941, he lost a match (+0−3=13) with Samuel Reshevsky for the U.S. Chess Championship. He played on the U.S. Team in four Chess Olympiads, in 1931, 1935, 1937, and 1950; the first three of which were won by the U.S. In a famous USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945, Horowitz scored one of the only two wins for the U.S. by defeating GM Salo Flohr. He split his "mini-match" of two games against Flohr, and in the 1946 edition of the same event, split his mini-match against Isaac Boleslavsky.

🔰 In his book Modern Ideas In The Chess Openings, Horowitz proposed a defense against the Danish Gambit:
(1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2)
Rather than play the usual 5...d5, Horowitz suggested keeping both pawns and playing 5...c6. This would be followed up by ...d6, ...Nd7, ...Nc5, and ...Be6. Although infrequently played, the defense has not been refuted. Horowitz is credited as the inventor of the defense; it is called Horowitz Defense by GM Nigel Davies in the Foxy Openings DVD Dashing Danish.

♦️ A memorable game by Israel Albert Horowitz👇
🔸 Isaac Kashdan vs Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 New York, 1938, rd 1, Oct-15
🔸 Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Worrall Attack Castling line (C86)

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🔸 Isaac Kashdan vs Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 New York, 1938, rd 1, Oct-15
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🔸 Isaac Kashdan - Israel Albert Horowitz ,New York 1938
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WORLD YOUTH UNDER-16 CHESS OLYMPIAD-2018
Results-R8:
http://bit.ly/2E7A6qv