🔴 Today is birthday of Irina Krush!!
♦️ American chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐
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✴️ #Steinitz

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz
🔸 American-Austrian chess Master
🔸 First World Chess Champion
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✴️ About Steinitz

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz
🔸 American-Austrian chess Master
🔸 First World Chess Champion

📚 Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first undisputed World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.

♦️ Perhaps no chess player represented the spirit of nineteenth century America better than Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900). His intelligence, innovation, arrogance, and shameless self-promotion led some to call him the "father of modern chess."

📚 Born in the Bohemian city of Prague on May 17, 1836, Steinitz was the last of thirteen children in a very poor family.
Chess first entered his life in 1848, but did not gain importance until he moved to Vienna in 1856, where he studied math at the Polytechnic. Money problems and poor health forced him to drop out of school. Chess matches involving a wager, helped supplement the income he made as a journalist.
Steinitz traveled to London in 1862 for his first appearance in an international tournament.
Steinitz is considered by many to be one of the all-time greatest chess writers in the English language, no small feat for one who adopted the language late in life. He wrote a column on chess for the London Figaro in 1876 to 1882. Steinitz also contributed articles to Ashore or Afloat (1883), the New York Tribune (1890-93) and the New York Herald (1893). His most important columns appeared in The Field from 1873 to 1882. These columns featured annotated games that were a vast improvement on previous annotations . . . .

🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & YOURDICTIONARY / BIOGRAPHY

♦️ A memorable game by Steinitz👇
▪️ Mikhail Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Match (1889), Havana CUB, rd 15, Feb-21
▪️ Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Slow Variation (C52)

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▪️ Mikhail Chigorin - Wilhelm Steinitz, WCh Match (1889)
▪️ PGN format
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Congrats to Alvar Alonso Rosell (2524) on winning the strong Sunway Sitges chess tournament with 8/10 points.
http://bit.ly/2QKMCD4

9️⃣ on the 10 best games of 2018 list is this chaotic game between Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana at the Candidates. 👏⚔️👏

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Ready to turn St.Petersburg upside down world rapid-blitz

🏁✅ GM Short - FM Murzin Friendly blitz with a ringing GAME 4

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VG: Magnus Carlsen is Norway's 2nd biggest sports athlete in 2018.

https://www.vg.no/spesial/2018/topp-100-sport/

Happy Holidays from all of us at Play Magnus. Here's your Christmas Greeting from the man himself, Magnus Carlsen .

🔴 Today is birthday of Emanuel Lasker!!
♦️ German chess master and second world chess champion

Born: December 24, 1868, Barlinek, Poland
Died: January 11, 1941, New York City, NY
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🛑 Today also birthday of:
♻️ Richard Teichmann (1868-15.06.1925), a German Master known as “Richard the Fifth” because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments.
♻️ Aage Vestol (1922-30.03.2008) a Norwegian Master who was Nordic Champion in 1939 and Norwegian Champion in 1949.
♻️ Irina Krush (1983), an American Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won 7 titles of U.S. Women’s Champion. At age 14, after winning her first U.S. title, she became the youngest U.S. Women’s Champion ever.
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Bellaiche,Anthony (2453)
⚫️Short,Nigel D (2652)
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28...Qg6! [Provoking White to play g3 or place his rook in a vulnerable position.]

29.Rg3 [29.g4? Qe4 30.Qe3 Qxc4 31.Bc7 Ke7 32.b3 Qb4–+; 29.g3 Nxh3+ 30.Kh2 Qh5 31.Re3 Nxf2+ 32.Kg1 Ng4–+]

29...Qe4! [White must give up either c4– pawn or an exchange.]

30.b3? [30.Re1! Qxc4 31.Bc7 Ra6 32.a5 Qxd5 33.Rd1 Rc8 34.Bb6 Qxd2 35.Rxd2³]

30...Ne2+ 31.Kh2 Nxg3 32.fxg3–+

0–1

⚪️#103 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Morris,James (2494)
🔸Poulsen,Martin (2239)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

14.g5 [14.Nxd6+! It would have been better for White to take the opportunity to gain the two bishops advantage. Then he would try to increase his advantage by opening up the game. 14...Qxd6 15.h4 N7b6 16.h5 a5 17.g5 a4 18.a3 Qe7 19.Rg1 Nc4 20.Bxc4 bxc4 21.Qe2 c3 22.Qc4 Rb8 23.Bxc3 Qxa3 24.Qxc6+ Ke7 25.Rd3 Nxc3+ 26.Qxc3 Qxc3 27.Rxc3²; 14.Ba5 Qb8 15.Nxd6+ Qxd6 16.Bd3 N7b6 17.Bd2 a5 18.h4 Nc4 19.Bc1 Nb4 20.Be4²]

14...Bf4 15.Be1 Rb8 16.h4 h5 17.g6 f5 18.Ng5 Bxg5 19.hxg5 Qf4 20.Qe2 Nf8 21.Rxh5 Rg8 22.a4 Qd6 23.axb5! Nf4 24.Qf3 Nxh5 25.Qxh5 cxb5 26.d5 exd5 27.Bxb5+! Ke7 [27...Rxb5 28.Qe2+ Qe6 29.Qxb5+]

28.Qf3 d4 29.Qxf5 Nxg6 30.Qe4+ Qe5 31.Bb4+ Kf7 32.Bc4+ Ke8 33.Qxg6+ Kd7 34.Rxd4+ Qxd4 35.Qe6+ Kc7 36.Ba5+ Rb6 37.Bxb6+ axb6 38.Qxg8 Qd1+ 39.Ka2 Qxc2 40.Qxg7+ Kd8 41.Qf6+ Kc7 42.Bb3 Qe2 43.Qf4+

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