🔵 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👆
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🔹 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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▪️ 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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A) Rb8 – 4
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C) Bg4 – 3
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⚪️ #133 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
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B) Be5 – 2
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C) Kd2
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Emanuel Lasker was world champion for 27 (!) years, but he nearly lost his title in 1910 to Carl Schlechter. FM Andrey Terekhov shares the fascinating story of that match.

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Amsterdam, 4th August 1973. The final round of the IBM tournament; Albin Planinc is in play v. Bertus Enklaar. Ex-World Champion Tigran Petrosian looks on.

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"Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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Wijk aan Zee, 30th January 1987. In the penultimate round, Nigel Short faced Helgi Ólafsson. The English GM won this game and shared 1st-2nd place with Viktor Korchnoi, though you might not have guessed from this picture...

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The 27th International Fajr Cup is taking place from 5-11 February in Tehran, Iran.
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