During Chess Tournament Jurmala-1978 in Latvia.
At the board of anaylyses sitting GM G.Sosonko, GM Garry Kasparov, GM Mikhail Tal.
Standing in the middle USSR master Aleksander Nikitin, Kasparov's trainer.

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“A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.”

🔸 Viswanathan Anand

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Magnus Carlsen loses to Woman
Magnus Carlsen vs Alexandra Kosteniuk
World Blitz Championship (2009) · Russian Game: Modern Attack. Center Variation (C43) · 0-1

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TOURNAMENT RESULT

Magnus Carlsen 31/42
Viswanathan Anand 28/42
Vladimir Kramnik 24.5/42
Sergey Karjakin 24.5/42
Alexander Grischuk 23.5/42
Peter Svidler 22.5/41
Ruslan Ponomariov 22.5/41
Peter Leko 22/42
Vugar Gashimov 21.5/41
Alexander Morozevich 21.5/42
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 21/42
Levon Aronian 21/42
Leinier Dominguez Perez 20/42
Evgeny Bareev 20/42
Vassily Ivanchuk 19.5/42
Anatoly Karpov 19/42
Boris Gelfand 18.5/42
Dmitry Jakovenko 17.5/42
Vladislav Tkachiev 17/42
Judit Polgar 17/42
Arkadij Naiditsch 15/42
Alexandra Kosteniuk 13/41

Congrats to Russia's young star Vladislav Artemiev (2736) on becoming the 2019 European Champion. #EICC2019

Artemiev (2754.4, World #13) wins the European Individual Championship with 8.5/11, increasing his unbeaten streak in classical chess to 49 games

🔴U.S. Championship
Round 9

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/us-championship-2019/9/1/1

🔸St Louis Winter A 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Hakobyan,Aram (2565)
⚫️Mikhalevski,V (2574)
🔸1-0

20.Rad1! [A finishing move. Black is completely helpless due to his back-rank weakness and his poor king's position.]

20...Bxf6™ [20...Rf8? 21.Qd3+– △Qh7]

21.Qxh6+ Kg8 22.Qxf6 Rf8 [22...Rd7 23.Nxf7! Qf4 24.Qg6+ Kf8 25.Ng5 Nd4 26.Rd3 Ke7 27.Rfd1 Qf6 28.Qh7+ Kd8 29.Ne4 Qe5 30.Qh4+ Kc7 31.Nf6 Rd8 32.Rxd4 Rxd4 33.Qxd4 Qxd4 34.Rxd4+–]

23.f4! [△Ne4]

23...e5 24.fxe5 Qb6 25.Rd6 Qa5 26.Nxf7+–

⚪️#178 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Muzychuk,M (2545)
🔸Wafa,Shahenda (2145)
🔸WCh Women 2018

17.g4!? [17.Be2! after this strong move, if Black keeps his king in the center, White can play f4–f5 and exploit the e8–h5 diagonal by the bishop and in case of ...0–0, White's rooks are connected for the attack. 17...g6 (17...Be7 18.Kb1) 18.Bd3 Nc5 (18...0–0 19.g3 Bxg3 (19...Be7 20.Rxh6+–) 20.Rxh6+–) 19.g4 Ne4 20.Qh2 Be7 21.Kb1 Qd7 22.f5 0–0–0 23.Nxb5 axb5 24.Bxe4 Qc7 25.Bf3 Bc5 26.Bd4 Bxd4 27.Rxd4 Bc6 28.Be2±; 17.Kb1 Nc5 18.Bd3 Be7 19.f5 Qc7 20.fxe6 Nxe6 21.Rdf1 Nxd4 (21...Qxe5 22.Nxe6 Qxe6 23.Re1 Qc6 24.Bd4+–) 22.Bxd4 Bc8 23.e6 Bxe6 24.Bxg7 Rg8 25.Bf6 0–0–0 26.a4 Rg4 27.Bxe7 Qxe7 28.axb5 axb5 29.Bxb5±]

17...g6 18.Bd3±

1–0

⚪️#178 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Vega Gutierrez,S (2389)
🔸Bodnaruk,A (2426)
🔸WCh Women 2018