Jean-Henri Marlet's depiction of the 19th game in a chess match between Howard Staunton and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant which took place on 16 December 1843.

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Future grandmaster Vladimir Akopian (born 7th December, 1971) with his then-trainer, Soviet Master Oleg Dementiev. Akopian was born in Baku, but moved to Yerevan with his family in 1985, when he began studying with Dementiev.

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Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi; in the background is ex-World Champion Tigran Petrosian. USSR, early 1970s.

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"A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position."

🔸 Bent Larsen

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🔴 Today is birthday of Robert Andrew Hungaski!!
♦️ American chess grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐

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#Portisch

🔸 Lajos Portisch
🔸Hungarian chess grandmaster
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✴️ About Portisch

🔸 Lajos Portisch
🔸 Hungarian chess grandmaster
🔸 Chess writer

🔰 Lajos Portisch is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".
🔹 Born: April 4, 1937 (age 81 years), Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1961)
🔹 FIDE rating: 2467
🔹 Peak rating: 2655 (January 1980)
🔹 Books: My Secrets in the Ruy Lopez, Six Hundred Endings

🔰 Lajos Portisch was born in Zalaegerszeg. He won the Hungarian Championship for the first time in 1958, and in 1961 he became a grandmaster. In 1960, he qualified from the Madrid Zonal for the Stockholm Interzonal (1962), where he came equal 9th. In 1963, he won the Halle Zonal ahead of Borislav Ivkov and Bent Larsen and advanced to the Amsterdam Interzonal (1964) where he came 8th. Over the course of his career he qualified for the Candidates eight times and played for his country in nineteen consecutive Olympiads (1956-1996). He had another fine tournament finish with an equal 2nd with Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian after Anatoly Karpov at Milan (1975). At the Biel Interzonal (1976), he qualified again with an equal 2nd after Bent Larsen, and went on to win the Portisch - Larsen Candidates Quarterfinal (1977) match, but then lost the Spassky - Portisch Candidates Semifinal (1977) match. He led the Hungarian team to an unprecedented 1st place finish ahead of the Soviets at the Buenos Aires Olympiad 1978.
He still lives in Hungary, and is still active in local tournaments.

♦️ A memorable and excellent tactical game by Portisch👇
🔸 Lajos Portisch vs Nick de Firmian
🔸 Reggio Emilia (1989/90), Reggio Emilia ITA, rd 8, Jan-05
🔸 Queen's Indian Defense: Spassky System (E14)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Lajos Portisch - Nick de Firmian, Reggio Emilia (1989/90)
🔸 PGN format
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I didn’t realize a chess match could be THIS HYPE 😂

In Focus: Alireza Firouzja..

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GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Evgeniy Najer, Ernesto Inarkiev, and Valentina Gunina share the lead in the #DvoretskyMemorial with 3½ points after 5 rounds of day 1.

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🔹 Dvoretsky Memorial 2018-R5
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Kovalev,Vladislav (2664)
⚫️Guramishvili,Sopiko (2378)
🔸1-0