βThe best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.β
πΈ Jose Raul Capablanca
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πΈ Jose Raul Capablanca
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Real Game Tactics White to move and win. From Romain Edouard vs Martin Zumsande, Germany, 2008.
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π΄ Today is birthday of Pouria Darini
β¦οΈ Iranian chess Grandmaster
πππππ Happy birthday πΊπβοΈππΈπ·
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β¦οΈ Iranian chess Grandmaster
πππππ Happy birthday πΊπβοΈππΈπ·
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π΅ About Paul Keres
πΉ Paul Keres
πΉ Estonian chess grandmaster
π Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. Keres narrowly missed a chance at a world championship match on five occasions.
π Born: January 7, 1916
Narva, Russian Empire
π Died: June 5, 1975 (aged 59)
Helsinki, Finland
π Title: Grandmaster
π Peak rating: 2615 (July 1971)
π Paul Keres was born in Narva, Estonia, where he would reside his entire life. He was very active in correspondence chess throughout his youth, and soon began to make a name for himself at over-the-board play as well with a series of tournament victories culminating with a tie for first at AVRO (1938). Keres was thrice Soviet Champion, in 1947 [rusbase-1], 1950 [rusbase-2], and 1951 [rusbase-3]. In 1948, Keres participated in the World Championship tournament to determine a successor to Alexander Alekhine, finishing joint third. This would turn out to be the only opportunity Keres would ever have to play for the world title--he finished second ex aequo or outright four times in the five Candidates' tournaments, from 1950 to 1962 inclusive, but never won.
Keres scored 13Β½/14 at the 11th Olympiad in Amsterdam 1954 and in 1963, he won at Los Angeles ... (sharing first place with Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian).
Keres suffered a fatal heart attack in Helsinki on the way home from a tournament in Vancouver in 1975, at the age of fifty-nine.
π Keres is the player who has defeated the largest number of world champions, no fewer than nine: Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, and Fischer.
π With his five second-place finishes in Candidates events and his results against world champions, Keres was often known as "Paul, the Second" and "The Uncrowned King".
π SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
β¦οΈ A memorable game by Keresπ
βͺοΈ Paul Keres vs Mikhail Botvinnik
βͺοΈ Alekhine Memorial (1956), Moscow URS, rd 15, Nov-02
βͺοΈ Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation. Traditional Vartiation (B63)
β¦οΈ Review and download PGN fileπ
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πΉ Paul Keres
πΉ Estonian chess grandmaster
π Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. Keres narrowly missed a chance at a world championship match on five occasions.
π Born: January 7, 1916
Narva, Russian Empire
π Died: June 5, 1975 (aged 59)
Helsinki, Finland
π Title: Grandmaster
π Peak rating: 2615 (July 1971)
π Paul Keres was born in Narva, Estonia, where he would reside his entire life. He was very active in correspondence chess throughout his youth, and soon began to make a name for himself at over-the-board play as well with a series of tournament victories culminating with a tie for first at AVRO (1938). Keres was thrice Soviet Champion, in 1947 [rusbase-1], 1950 [rusbase-2], and 1951 [rusbase-3]. In 1948, Keres participated in the World Championship tournament to determine a successor to Alexander Alekhine, finishing joint third. This would turn out to be the only opportunity Keres would ever have to play for the world title--he finished second ex aequo or outright four times in the five Candidates' tournaments, from 1950 to 1962 inclusive, but never won.
Keres scored 13Β½/14 at the 11th Olympiad in Amsterdam 1954 and in 1963, he won at Los Angeles ... (sharing first place with Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian).
Keres suffered a fatal heart attack in Helsinki on the way home from a tournament in Vancouver in 1975, at the age of fifty-nine.
π Keres is the player who has defeated the largest number of world champions, no fewer than nine: Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, and Fischer.
π With his five second-place finishes in Candidates events and his results against world champions, Keres was often known as "Paul, the Second" and "The Uncrowned King".
π SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
β¦οΈ A memorable game by Keresπ
βͺοΈ Paul Keres vs Mikhail Botvinnik
βͺοΈ Alekhine Memorial (1956), Moscow URS, rd 15, Nov-02
βͺοΈ Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation. Traditional Vartiation (B63)
β¦οΈ Review and download PGN fileπ
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βͺοΈ Paul Keres - Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow 1956
βͺοΈPGN format
βͺοΈ Notes by Stockfish 8 v270317 (minimum 6s/ply)
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βͺοΈPGN format
βͺοΈ Notes by Stockfish 8 v270317 (minimum 6s/ply)
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π΄ Today is birthday of Igor MiladinoviΔ
β¦οΈ Serbian chess Grandmaster
πππππ Happy birthday πΊπβοΈππΈπ·
πΉ Today is also birthday of Benjamin Bok, a Dutch chess grandmaster who born in Lelystad on 25 January 1995 and achieved his grandmaster title in 2014. He won the FIDE Open in the 2015 London Chess Classic scoring 8 points out of 9. As of August 2017, he is the 4th-ranked Dutch chess player, and 184th-ranked player in the world.
πΉπΉ Happy birthday to him πππ
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β¦οΈ Serbian chess Grandmaster
πππππ Happy birthday πΊπβοΈππΈπ·
πΉ Today is also birthday of Benjamin Bok, a Dutch chess grandmaster who born in Lelystad on 25 January 1995 and achieved his grandmaster title in 2014. He won the FIDE Open in the 2015 London Chess Classic scoring 8 points out of 9. As of August 2017, he is the 4th-ranked Dutch chess player, and 184th-ranked player in the world.
πΉπΉ Happy birthday to him πππ
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βThe passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the worldβ
πΈ H.G. Wells
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πΈ H.G. Wells
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