Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 99
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B) Q×e4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
Gavin, Nikhil, @hoseini139562, @Mahernoz, @abas2048, @h_a_d_I_1169, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, @WataxPin, Matthew
C) Rf5 – 3
👍👍 21%
Babak, ⛔⛔ MSJ ⛔⛔, Michael
A) f×e4 – 1
👍 7%
Jayden
👥 14 people voted so far.
public poll
B) Q×e4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
Gavin, Nikhil, @hoseini139562, @Mahernoz, @abas2048, @h_a_d_I_1169, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, @WataxPin, Matthew
C) Rf5 – 3
👍👍 21%
Babak, ⛔⛔ MSJ ⛔⛔, Michael
A) f×e4 – 1
👍 7%
Jayden
👥 14 people voted so far.
#Spassky
🔵 Boris Spassky
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 Tenth World Chess Champion,
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🔵 Boris Spassky
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 Tenth World Chess Champion,
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🅾️ About Spassky
🔵 Boris Spassky
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 Tenth World Chess Champion,
📚 Boris Vasilievich Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.
Spassky won the USSR Chess Championship twice outright (1961, 1973), and twice more lost in playoffs (1956, 1963). He was a World Chess Championship candidate on seven occasions.
📚 Boris Spassky is most famous for his loss of the World Championship crown to Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972, in the most famous chess match of all time. Despite this dubious honor, Spassky has been considered one of the world’s best players for decades. World Junior Champion and a world title candidate by age 18, Spassky showed an early, hyper-aggressive brilliance that matured into seamless universality. He won the Soviet Championship twice outright, lost in playoffs twice more, and participated in seven Candidates Tournaments between 1956 and 1985, finally defeating Tigran Petrosian to become the 10th World Champion in 1969, the culmination of a decade and a half of dominance.
Even after losing the title to Fischer three years later, Spassky continued his strong play through the 1970s. His influence reached even to Hollywood, as his stunning 15th move against David Bronstein was immortalized in the film classic “From Russia with Love." He played openings, middlegames, and endings equally brilliantly, a true universal player. After moving to France with his wife and becoming a citizen there in 1978, his chess play decreased somewhat in both frequency and quality. He continued to compete occasionally through the 1990s, but a series of strokes yet again hampered his play. Despite these setbacks, Spassky’s reputation remains as one of the greatest living players.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & WORLD CHESS FALL OF FAME
♦️ A memorable and short viewable chess game by Spassky which named in chessgames.com site "The SMERSH Gambit" !!
Soltis has told about Spassky's sacrifice in this game:
" One of the deepest sacrifices this side of The Evergreen Game "👇
🔸 Boris Spassky vs David Bronstein
🔸 USSR Championship (1960), Leningrad URS, rd 16, Feb-20
🔸 King's Gambit: Accepted. Modern Defense (C36)
This game is one of the best games of Boris Spassky!!
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇
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🔵 Boris Spassky
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 Tenth World Chess Champion,
📚 Boris Vasilievich Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.
Spassky won the USSR Chess Championship twice outright (1961, 1973), and twice more lost in playoffs (1956, 1963). He was a World Chess Championship candidate on seven occasions.
📚 Boris Spassky is most famous for his loss of the World Championship crown to Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972, in the most famous chess match of all time. Despite this dubious honor, Spassky has been considered one of the world’s best players for decades. World Junior Champion and a world title candidate by age 18, Spassky showed an early, hyper-aggressive brilliance that matured into seamless universality. He won the Soviet Championship twice outright, lost in playoffs twice more, and participated in seven Candidates Tournaments between 1956 and 1985, finally defeating Tigran Petrosian to become the 10th World Champion in 1969, the culmination of a decade and a half of dominance.
Even after losing the title to Fischer three years later, Spassky continued his strong play through the 1970s. His influence reached even to Hollywood, as his stunning 15th move against David Bronstein was immortalized in the film classic “From Russia with Love." He played openings, middlegames, and endings equally brilliantly, a true universal player. After moving to France with his wife and becoming a citizen there in 1978, his chess play decreased somewhat in both frequency and quality. He continued to compete occasionally through the 1990s, but a series of strokes yet again hampered his play. Despite these setbacks, Spassky’s reputation remains as one of the greatest living players.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & WORLD CHESS FALL OF FAME
♦️ A memorable and short viewable chess game by Spassky which named in chessgames.com site "The SMERSH Gambit" !!
Soltis has told about Spassky's sacrifice in this game:
" One of the deepest sacrifices this side of The Evergreen Game "👇
🔸 Boris Spassky vs David Bronstein
🔸 USSR Championship (1960), Leningrad URS, rd 16, Feb-20
🔸 King's Gambit: Accepted. Modern Defense (C36)
This game is one of the best games of Boris Spassky!!
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇
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@Spassky - Bronstein 1960.pgn
630 B
🔸 Boris Spassky - David Bronstein, Leningrad 1960
🔸 Annotated PGN format
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🔸 Annotated PGN format
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Women's World Chess Champion Nona Gaprindashvili gives a simultaneous display. Georgian SSR, 1970s.
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"Lasker's style is clear water, but with a drop of poison which is clouding it. Capablanca's style is perhaps still clearer, but it lacks that drop of poison."
🔸 Jacques Mieses
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🔸 Jacques Mieses
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The FIDE Interzonal Tournament in Amsterdam, 1964. In the 13th round (played 7th June), Boris Spassky (USSR) faces Pal Benko (USA). Spassky won this game in 50 moves.
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Grandmasters Hein Donner and Jan Timman in conversation at the Dutch championship, Leeuwarden, 7th March 1981.
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43.g5! [Gaining more space on the kingside and preparing to penetrate the opponent's camp via e7.]
43...Bc3 [43...Bd4 44.Kg3 Rb8 45.Qd5 Qxd5 46.Bxd5 f6 47.g6 Rf8 48.Bc4+–]
44.Kg3! [A preparatory move. White moves his king to a safer square in order that after penetrating the queen on e7, the black queen cannot take the f5–pawn with check.]
[44.Qe7? Qxf5+ 45.Kg3 Rd4 46.Qe8+ Kh7 47.Qxf7 Rd3+ 48.Bxd3 Qxd3+ 49.Kf2 Bd4+ 50.Ke1 Bc3+=]
44...h5 45.Qe7 Qd1 46.Kg2 [Black resigned.] 1–0
43...Bc3 [43...Bd4 44.Kg3 Rb8 45.Qd5 Qxd5 46.Bxd5 f6 47.g6 Rf8 48.Bc4+–]
44.Kg3! [A preparatory move. White moves his king to a safer square in order that after penetrating the queen on e7, the black queen cannot take the f5–pawn with check.]
[44.Qe7? Qxf5+ 45.Kg3 Rd4 46.Qe8+ Kh7 47.Qxf7 Rd3+ 48.Bxd3 Qxd3+ 49.Kf2 Bd4+ 50.Ke1 Bc3+=]
44...h5 45.Qe7 Qd1 46.Kg2 [Black resigned.] 1–0
37.h4! [A powerful move to deflect the black bishop on f6 from protecting the e5–pawn. After falling the black central e5–pawn, White's passed pawns on the center will be decisive.]
[37.Rhg2 hxg4 38.hxg4 Rch8 39.Kf1 Rh1+ 40.Rg1 R1h3³; 37.Bb5 hxg4 38.Bxd7 Qxd7 39.hxg4 c4³]
37...gxh4 [37...hxg4 38.hxg5 Bxg5 39.Qxe5+ Qxe5 40.Nxe5 Rxh2 41.Rxh2 Rd8 (41...g3?? 42.Rh5+–) 42.Rh5 Be7+–]
38.g5 Rg6 39.Rbg2 Rxg5 40.Rxg5+ Bxg5 41.Qxe5+ Qxe5 42.Nxe5 Be8 43.d6 Rd8 44.Rg2 Kf6 45.Nd3 h3 46.e5+ Kf5 47.Be6+ Kxe6 48.Rxg5 c4 49.Nxf4+ Kd7 50.Rg7+ Kc6 51.Rc7+ Kxb6 52.Ne6?? [52.Rxc4 Kb5 53.Rc7 Kb6 54.Nd5+ Kb5 55.f4+–]
52...Bc6 53.Kh2 c3 54.Nd4 Kc5 55.Ne6+ Kb6 56.Nd4 Kc5 57.Ne6+ Kb6 58.Nd4 ½–½
[37.Rhg2 hxg4 38.hxg4 Rch8 39.Kf1 Rh1+ 40.Rg1 R1h3³; 37.Bb5 hxg4 38.Bxd7 Qxd7 39.hxg4 c4³]
37...gxh4 [37...hxg4 38.hxg5 Bxg5 39.Qxe5+ Qxe5 40.Nxe5 Rxh2 41.Rxh2 Rd8 (41...g3?? 42.Rh5+–) 42.Rh5 Be7+–]
38.g5 Rg6 39.Rbg2 Rxg5 40.Rxg5+ Bxg5 41.Qxe5+ Qxe5 42.Nxe5 Be8 43.d6 Rd8 44.Rg2 Kf6 45.Nd3 h3 46.e5+ Kf5 47.Be6+ Kxe6 48.Rxg5 c4 49.Nxf4+ Kd7 50.Rg7+ Kc6 51.Rc7+ Kxb6 52.Ne6?? [52.Rxc4 Kb5 53.Rc7 Kb6 54.Nd5+ Kb5 55.f4+–]
52...Bc6 53.Kh2 c3 54.Nd4 Kc5 55.Ne6+ Kb6 56.Nd4 Kc5 57.Ne6+ Kb6 58.Nd4 ½–½
53.Rf5?! [53.Qxe4! Rxa2+ 54.Kh3 Qxe4 55.Bxe4 Bd4 56.g5 Kg7 57.Kg3 hxg5 58.Rxg5+ Kf8 59.Bd5 Bg7 60.Rh7 Ra7 61.f4 Rh6 62.Rf5+ Ke8 63.Rxh6 Bxh6 64.Bc6+ Ke7 65.Rxc5 Kd6 66.Rh5 Bxf4+ 67.Kxf4 Kxc6 68.Rb5 Rf7+ 69.Ke5 Re7+ 70.Kf6 Re3 71.Rxb4+–; 53.fxe4 Rg6 54.Rf1 Rxg4+ 55.Kh1 Rh4+ 56.Rxh4 Qxh4+ 57.Qh2 Qxh2+ 58.Kxh2 Rxa2+=]
53...exf3+ 54.Bxf3 Qd2 55.Qxd2 Bxd2 56.Rxc5 Rxa2 57.Rc8+ Kg7 58.Bd5 Bg5+? [58...Rf6!+/=]
59.Kf3 Rb2 60.Ke4 [60.Rg8+ Kf6 61.Ke4 Re2+ (61...Rxb3 62.Rf1++–) ]
60...Rxb3 61.c5 Re3+ 62.Kd4 Rd7 63.c6 Rde7 64.Rg8+ Kh7 65.Rxg5 1–0
53...exf3+ 54.Bxf3 Qd2 55.Qxd2 Bxd2 56.Rxc5 Rxa2 57.Rc8+ Kg7 58.Bd5 Bg5+? [58...Rf6!+/=]
59.Kf3 Rb2 60.Ke4 [60.Rg8+ Kf6 61.Ke4 Re2+ (61...Rxb3 62.Rf1++–) ]
60...Rxb3 61.c5 Re3+ 62.Kd4 Rd7 63.c6 Rde7 64.Rg8+ Kh7 65.Rxg5 1–0