Biggest chess achievements by Alexander Alekhine.
1.Reigning as a champion for 16.4 years.
2.Optimized the Alekhine defence.
3.Becoming a chess master at age of 16.
4.Defeating Capablanca in a WCC match.
5.Winning the Bled tournament with 20.5/26 4.5 points ahead of second place.

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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts."

🔸 Alan Alexander Milne

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Boris Spassky, in play v. Furman, 27th USSR-ch Semi-final, Tallinn 1959. Suetin looks on.

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18-year-old Parham Maghsoodloo 🇮🇷 won the 2019 #LeonMasters defeating Vassily Ivanchuk 3-1 in a rapid 4-game final.

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Meet 18 y/o Jeffery Xiong in the 2700 club! He was equal first with 7.5/9 at the World Open in Philadelphia that finished this Sunday

GM Le Quang Liem won 2019 World Open in Philadelphia after making a draw with Black in an Armageddon tiebreaker against Jeffery Xiong. Both scored 7/9.

⚪️#255 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Godena,M (2463)
🔸Barp,Alberto (2429)
🔸78th ch-ITA 2018

20.Nc1! [Improving the position of the knight in order to transfer it to the center.]

[20.Nd2 Qd7 21.Nf3 Ng7 22.Qd3 Ne6 23.Bg3 Re8 24.h4 c5 25.Be5 Bg7 26.Bxg7 Kxg7 27.Ne5 Qd8 28.g3 f6 29.Ng4 h5 30.Ne3 cxd4 31.cxd4 Qd7=; 20.Be5 h5 21.h3 Bxe5 22.Qxe5 Qd6 23.g4 hxg4 24.hxg4 Qxe5 25.Rxe5 Nd6 26.Nc1 Kf8=]

20...Qd7 21.Nd3 Ng7 22.Be5 Re8 23.Qf3=

½–½

⚪️#255 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Di Benedetto,Edoardo (2324)
🔸Seresin,Francesco (2258)
🔸78th ch-ITA U20 2018