30 years ago this week Mikhail Tal defeated Jan Timman 3½:2½ in a 6-game match sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting organisation KRO, at Hilversum, Dec 1988.

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"Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarity with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, over-ambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors."

🔸 Pal Benko

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Nona Gaprindashvili, In 1963, already a World Champion at 22.

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🔴LIVE WRC Day 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErxhqnbgP0k

🔴 Today is birthday of Stefan Kindermann!!
♦️ Austrian chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC

🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Riga 1970
🔹38th Soviet Chess Champion

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Riga 1970
🔹 25 November - 28 December
🔹 38th Soviet Chess Champion

🔰 CHAMPION: Viktor Korchnoi | 16/21 (+12 -1 =8) |

♦️The 38th USSR Championship was held in the city of Riga (Latvia) from November 25 to December 28, 1970. It featured 22 of the Soviet Union's strongest masters and grandmasters who were invited to, and qualified for, the main event. The tournament was a tremendous victory for Viktor Korchnoi. He won clear first, a full point and a half ahead of second place Vladimir Tukmakov, finishing with 16 points from 21 games. It was Korchnoi's fourth and final Soviet championship victory, tying him with Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian and Alexander Beliavsky for Soviet titles, and being surpassed only by Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal.

🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM

🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Riga 1970 Games Database " by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from this tournament👇

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♦️ Review our selected game from "Riga 1970 Chess Tournament"👇
▪️ Igor V Platonov vs Viktor Korchnoi
▪️ USSR Championship (1970), Riga URS, rd 11, Dec-10
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack. Grünfeld Gambit (D83)
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🔹 " Riga 1970 Games Database "
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Ding Liren (who reached 100 consecutive games without defeat this year!) won our 5 best game of 2018 as he defeated Jan-Krzystzof Duda in a sacrificial and critical game at the Olympiad. 🔥⚔️🔥

Congrats to GM Ju Wenjun on her confident victory in the World Women's Rapid Championship. She won 8 and drew 4 games to finish a full point ahead of the runner-ups.

Ju Wenjun

🔹 FIDE World Rapid-ch Women 2018, St. Petersburg
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Congrats to Daniil Dubov on becoming the 2018 World Rapid Champion. He took clear 1st place with 11/15 points and no single loss.