Moscow, 1st October 1972. At the 'Grandmasters v. Young Pioneers' event - the leaders of the Kiev and Moscow teams, grandmaster David Bronstein & ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov.

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"In positions of strategic maneuvering seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole."

🔸 Mark Dvoretsky

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Leningrad, 17th September 1971. In the 3rd round of the 39th USSR Championship final, David Bronstein is in play v. Vladimir Tukmakov.
Tukmakov (Black) won this game in 41 moves.

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From the archives of RIA Novosti - a picture of Garry Kasparov in play v. ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov, from the 'Komsomolskaya Pravda' GMs v. Young Pioneers event, Leningrad, November 1975.

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A completely unexpected World Chess Championship Comics Volume 1 makes a comeback. There is actually more truth to it that meets the eye! Take a look at the full version here:
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15-years-old GM Alireza Firouzja (2618) becomes the 2019 Iranian Champion. He scores 9/11 points to finish 1.5 points ahead of the runner-up GM Pouya Idani (2611). Congratulations!

🔹 52nd Iranian Men Chess Championship
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Headlines: Reviewing the new-look ChessBase Magazine - ChessBase India http://dlvr.it/Qy5RCn

🔴 Today is birthday of Nikita Vitiugov
♦️ Russian chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birthday 🌺💐☘️💐🌸🌷

⚛️ Today is also birthday of Bogdan Śliwa, a Polish chess master who won the championship of Poland six times. In 1946, Sliwa won the first Polish Chess Championship after World War II in Sopot. In 1948, he took 3rd in Kraków. He won the Polish championship four consecutive times in 1951–1954 and won his last title at Wrocław 1960.
▪️Born: February 4, 1922, Kraków, Poland
▪️Died: May 16, 2003, Kraków, Poland
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC

🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 San Remo 1930

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 San Remo 1930
🔹January 16th - February 4th

🔰 CHAMPION: Aleksander Alekhine | 14/15 (+13 -0 =2) |

📚San Remo 1930 was the first international chess tournament held in the famous San Remo casino. Sixteen chess masters from Europe and the Americas, including the World Champion, played a round robin tournament from 16 January to 4 February 1930. The games were played in the casino during the day, and in the evening the playing hall was used for dancing.

◼️ The participants of the round robin were:
▪️ Alexander Alekhine,
▪️ Aron Nimzowitsch,
▪️ Efim Bogoljubov,
▪️ Akiba Rubinstein,
▪️ Rudolph Spielmann,
▪️ Savielly Tartakower,
▪️ Geza Maroczy,
▪️ Milan Vidmar,
▪️ Edgar Colle,
▪️ Hans Kmoch,
▪️ Frederick D. Yates,
▪️ Karl Ahues,
▪️ Roberto Grau,
▪️ Mario Monticelli,
▪️ Massimiliano Romi,
▪️ Jose Joaquin Araiza Munoz.

Alexander Alekhine dominated the field with a score of 14/15, 3½ points ahead of second place Aron Nimzowitsch, and winning the grand prize of 10,000 lire.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM

🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "San Remo 1930 Games Database " by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from this tournament👇

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Review our selected game from San Remo 1930 chess tournament👇

🔸 Edgar Colle vs Alexander Alekhine
🔸 San Remo (1930), San Remo ITA, rd 13, Feb-01
🔸 Queen Pawn Game: Colle System. Anti-Colle (D04)
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🔹 San Remo 1930 Games Database
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▪️ Today is death day of Savielly Tartakower
▪️ French-Polish Chess grandmaster and journalist

🔘 Born: February 22, 1887, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
🔘 Died: February 4, 1956, Paris, France
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⚫️#133 (Strategy-Black to Move)
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