"Chess is an egotistical game, and all its protagonists hold conceits of some kind or other, else there would be no point in playing."

🔸 Charles Warburton

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Footage of Bobby Fischer from Yugoslavian television.
Bobby Durning an annotation of Morphy's game, annotates two exibition games who were exactly the same.

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#FIDEWomenCandidates Round 9 results:
🇷🇺 Kosteniuk 1/2–1/2 Lagno 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 Gunina 0–1 Goryachkina 🇷🇺
🇬🇪 Dzagnidze 0–1 A. Muzychuk 🇺🇦
🇺🇦 M. Muzychuk 1-0 Tan Zhongyi 🇨🇳

Alesandra Goryachkina leads with 2,5 points ahead of the field and 2804 (!) performance.

2019 Women's Candidates. Round 9. Interview with Lagno and Kosteniuk.

🔹 FIDE Women's Candidates-R9
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4 rounds are played at #Asian Continental Championships in Xingtai, #China.

Alireza Firouzja, Murali Karthikeyan & Sethuraman S.P. lead the open with 3,5.
Bhakti Kulkarni, Dinara Saduakassova & Irine Kharisma Sukandar lead the women's section.

Results:
http://chess-results.com/tnr442666.aspx?lan=1&art=40&turdet=YES&flag=30

🔹 Asian Continental Open Championships 2019
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🔹 Asian Continental Women Championships 2019
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🔹 Karpov Poikovsky Tournament 2019-R5
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Going into the final rest day Magnus Carlsen still leads by 1.5 points, after both he and Yu Yangyi won in Armageddon today!

🔹 7th Norway Chess 2019- R6
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🔹 7th Norway Armageddon- R6
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⚫️#234 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gasimov,Parviz (2303)
🔸Fier,A (2553)
🔸Baku Open 2018

23...b5?! [23...Rd3! Black intends to kick the d4– knight away from the center and then by ...f6, undermine the position of another White's knight on d6. 24.Nf3 f6 25.f5 Nxe5 26.Nxe5 fxe5 27.Qe4 Nxb4 28.axb4 (28.Qxb4 Qxd6 29.Qxb7?? Qd4+ 30.Kh1 Rd2–+) 28...Rxd6 29.Qxe5 Rf6 30.fxe6 Rfxe6-/+; 23...Rd8?! 24.Qd1 h6 25.Qd2 Qd7 26.Rf1 Re3 27.N4f5 Rb3 28.Nd4=]

24.Kh1 [24.Qd1 Qd7 25.Qd2 Rd8 26.Ne4 Rc4 27.Nb3 Qc7 28.Qf2„]

24...Rd3!-/+

1–0