“The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.”

🔸 Garry Kasparov (2007) "How Life Imitates Chess"

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Amsterdam, 25th July 1978. The 10th round of the traditional IBM tournament; Walter Browne (USA) faces Ulf Andersson (Sweden). Black won this encounter in 48 moves.

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At the drawing of lots for the Wijk aan Zee tournament, 16th January 1976 - ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal.
The 'A' Group was ultimately won by Ólafsson & Ljubojević, ahead of Tal & Kurajica.

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Inaugural Cairns Cup Takes Off With 4 Decisive Games.

https://goo.gl/JGYyVS

🔹 2019 Cairns Cup
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AlphaZero's stunning victory over chess engine Stockfish raises hopes of Artificial Intelligence's positive impact on royal game.

https://goo.gl/3FuXUn

2019 Grand Prix: Where Chess Meets Start-up Nations

https://goo.gl/cbT464

Interview with Alexander Lyashuk about the recent success of Lc0

https://goo.gl/wYoQxD

Stockfish has a slight lead over Leela Chess Zero after 5 of the last 10 games were decisive in the TCEC final, but it looks clear that self-taught chess engines like LCZero (following in the footsteps of AlphaZero) are going to dominate soon:

Problem chess with Pal Benko.

https://goo.gl/zhgX7g

Happy birthday to the world's oldest grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, who turned 97 today! 🎂🎉🎁

⚫️#134 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Foisor,Sabina-Francesca (2264)
🔸Stefanova,Antoaneta (2490)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

21...Nxe4! [A well-calculated exchange that leads to a winning position for Black.]

22.Bxe4 [22.fxe4 Ne3 23.Qd2 Nxc2 24.Qxc2 Bxe4–+]

22...Ne3 23.Qd3 Bxe4 24.Qxe3 [24.fxe4 Ng4–+]

24...Bd5–+ [Black's connected passed pawns are much better than the opponent's ones.]

0–1

⚪️ #134 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Erdogdu,M (2406)
🔸Soysal,Serkan (2415)
🔸ch-TUR 2018 Belek TUR

51.Ng2? [51.g5! Bc8 52.Ng4+ Kf5 53.Rf6+ Kxg5 54.Rf8 Rxg7 55.Rxc8 Nh4 56.Nce3 Rf7 57.Rg8+ Ng6 58.Rd8 Nh4 59.Rxd6 Rf3+ 60.Kh2 Nf5 61.Nxf5 Rxf5 62.Nh6 Rf2+ 63.Kg1 Rf3 64.Kg2 Rxa3 65.Nf7+ Kf5 66.Re6 Rb3 67.Nd6+ Kf4 68.Rxe4+; 51.Nf1? Nd4 52.Nxd4 cxd4 53.Nd2 d3 54.Rg5+ Kd4 55.Kf4 e3 56.Nf3+ Kxc4 57.Kxe3 Kc3 58.Nd2 Be8 59.Ne4+ Kc2 60.Rf5 Rxg7 61.Rf2+ Kb3 62.Nxd6 Bg6 63.Nf5 Rd7 64.Kd4 Kxa3 65.Ne3 d2 66.Rxd2 Kb3 67.Rf2 a3 68.Nc4 Bf7 69.Rf3+ Kb4 70.Nxa3 Rxd5+ 71.Ke4 Be6 72.Nc2+ Kc5=]

51...Nd4 52.Nce3 Be8 53.Rh6 Rxg7= 54.Nf4 Bf7 55.Rh8 Rg8 56.Rh7 Kf6 57.Rh6+ Ke5

½–½