"When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations."

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik

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The 22-year-old West German International Master (later Grandmaster and World Championship Candidate), Robert Hübner, pictured at Wijk aan Zee 1971.

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Huebner is pictured in play v. the ex-World Champion, Tigran Petrosian (USSR). This game, from the opening round of the Hoogovens tournament (played 12th January, 1971) was ultimately drawn in 95 moves.

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Cairns Cup: Kosteniuk Leads, Gunina Shines

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Enjoy this wonderful, sacrificial game by Valentina Gunina 🇷🇺 who defeated Marie Sebag 🇫🇷 in round five of the #CairnsCup

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2019 Cairns Cup: My Style

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🔹 2019 Cairns Cup-R5
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Congrats to Iran's 15-years-old GM Alireza Firouzja (2618) on winning the 27th International Fajr Cup.
He beat co-leader GM Sergey Fedorchuk (2604) in the final round to take clear 1st with 7.5/9 points.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

🔹 27th Fajr Cup Masters 2019, Tehran
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It's an equal fight between #Stockfish and #LCZero in #TCEC Season 14 Superfinal.
After 26 draws and 12 decisive games, the score is still even: 18.5-18.5

🔹 TCEC Season 14 Superfinal, Internet
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️L'Ami,Erwin (2639)
⚫️Harsha,Bharathakoti (2492)
🔸1-0

29.c3! [Erwin tries to remove the knight in order to penetrate the opponent's position via the open d-file. Black's back rank is very weak.]

29...Rh5 [29...Nxe6?? 30.Qxe6+! Qxe6 31.Rd8+ Kf7 32.Rf8#; 29...Nb5 30.Qb7 Qe8 31.Qd7+–]

30.cxd4! Rxh6 31.d5! [△d6]

31...g5 [31...Qa8 32.Qe3! △d6 32...Rh5 33.d6 exd6 34.Rxd6 Qe8 35.e7 Kg7 36.Qe6 Rf5 37.Rd8+–]

32.d6 exd6 [32...Qd8 33.Rf1 Rg6 34.Qf5+–]

33.Rxd6 Qe8 34.Qd5 Kg7 35.Rd7+ [Black is completely helpless.]

35...Kg6 36.Qe4+ [36.g4!? Rxh3+ 37.Kg2 Qh8 38.Qe4+ Kh6 39.e7+–]

1–0

⚪️#137 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Sheng,Joshua (2451)
🔸Le Tuan Minh (2515)
🔸chess.com INT 2019