🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Grischuk,Alexander (2769)
⚫️Jumabayev,Rinat (2605)
🔸1-0

40.Bg5+! [After this check, Black has no way to save the game. All Whites pieces are ready to mount an invasion.]

40...Bxg5 [40...Kg7 41.Bxf6+‚ Kxf6 42.Qa1+! Kf7 43.Ng5+ Kf8 44.Qf6+ Kg8 45.Re8#; 40...Kh5 41.Kg3! △Rh1 41...Nxe1 42.Qxe1+– △Qh1]

41.fxg5+ [△Qc7]

41...Kh5 [41...Kg7 42.Qc7+ Qf7 43.Re7 Bd5 44.Rxf7+ Bxf7+–]

42.Qc7! [With an unstoppable mate.]

1–0

🔴 Today is birthday of Jan Werle
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Round 3 at Tata Steel in Wijk aan Zee: Ding Liren beat Van Foreest, Nepomniachtchi (2763) beat Kramnik, and Duda beat Fedoseev. Nepomniachtchi leads 2.5 out of 3. Ding and Anand each have 2 out of 3. Kramnik is in last place with 0.5 out of 3 after 2 consecutive losses.

🔹 Tata Steel Chess Masters | Round 3
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Tata Steel Chess Challengers | Round 3 Standings

🔹 Tata Steel Chess Challengers | Round 3
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Venice, 29th September 1950. In the 2nd round of the tournament Aleksandr Kotov faces fellow Soviet GM Vasily Smyslov; meanwhile Harry Golombek (England) faces Herman Steiner (USA).
Kotov took 1st place in the event, ahead of Smyslov.

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Bobby Fischer at Bled, 1961.

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Belgrade, Yugoslavia, March/April 1970. On board 2 of the 'Match of the Century' (Rest of the World v. USSR), Bobby Fischer faces Tigran Petrosian.

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Judit Polgar vs Sergey Karjakin
Hotel Bali Stars (2003) (rapid), Benidorm ESP, rd 10

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. English Attack (B90) · 1-0
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#Vidmar

✴️ Milan Vidmar
🔸 Slovene chess grandmaster
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✴️ About Milan Vidmar

🔸 Milan Vidmar
🔸 Slovene chess grandmaster
🔸 Chess Writer

📚 Milan Vidmar was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess Grandmaster, chess theorist, chess arbiter, philosopher, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930. He was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.
🔘 Born: June 22, 1885, Ljubljana, Slovenia
🔘 Died: October 9, 1962, Ljubljana, Slovenia
🔘 Education: University of Vienna
🔘 Books: GOLDENE SCHACHZEITEN E-BOOK.

📚 Vidmar was born in a middle-class family in Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). He was also a top-class chess player, probably one of the best dozen players in the world from 1910 to 1930, all the while remaining an amateur. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1950.
Vidmar successes include high places at some of the top chess tournaments of his time, e.g. sixth at Carlsbad 1907, third at Prague 1908, first at Gothenburg 1909 (the 7th Nordic Chess Championship), second at San Sebastián 1911 with Akiba Rubinstein behind José Raúl Capablanca, first at Budapest 1912, second at Mannheim 1914, first at Vienna and Berlin in 1918, second at Košice 1928, third at London 1922, shared first with Alexander Alekhine at Hastings 1925/26, third at Semmering 1926, fourth at New York 1927, fourth at London 1927, shared fifth at Carlsbad 1929, tied for 4–7th at Bled 1931, tied for 3–6th at Stuttgart 1939, second behind Max Euwe at Budapest 1940, first at Basel 1952.

📚 Vidmar represented Yugoslavia in the Chess Olympiads of Prague 1931 (board one, 8.5/16) and Stockholm 1935 (board one, 8.5/14).[2]
Vidmar became an arbiter, earning the title of International Arbiter from FIDE, and was chief referee for the 1948 World Chess Championship in The Hague/Moscow.

♦️A memorable game by Vidmar👇
▪️ Akiba Rubinstein vs Milan Vidmar
▪️ Berlin Four Masters (1918), Berlin DEU, rd 3, Apr-22
▪️ Budapest Defense: Rubinstein Variation (A52)

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