Savielly Tartakower in Paris, circa 1932.

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"When two fiercely aggressive masters clash, the struggle is usually short and violent."

🔸 Irving Chernev

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Riga, of course, has a long and rich chess history.
40 years ago this September, Mikhail Tal scored one of the greatest results of his later career, winning the FIDE chess Interzonal tournament in his home city.
Cross-table from '64' (No. 40, 1979).

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Jan Timman (Netherlands) and Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia), at the IBM tournament in Amsterdam, July 1978.

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The list of 2019 2nd Quarter Presidential Board Decisions:

https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/11728-list-of-q2-2019-presidential-board-decisions.html

The traditional Sparkassen Chess Meeting is underway in Dortmund 🇩🇪. The 8-player round robin (2706 average) is headed by Ian Nepomniachtchi and Leinier Dominguez. The winner will be known on July 21.

Website: (link: https://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/) sparkassen-chess-meeting.de

Today's results at #GrandPrixFIDE in Riga:
🇷🇺 Karjakin 1/2-1/2 So 🇺🇸
🇵🇱 Duda1/2-1/2 Mamedyarov 🇦🇿
🇷🇺 Grischuk 1/2-1/2 Yu 🇨🇳
🇧🇬 Topalov 0-1 Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷

Veselin Topalov needs to win with Black tomorrow to take the match to tiebreaks!

It looks like Awonder had an edge, but that was awfully fast! Liang checkmates Hans Niemann, moving to 4/5. He's in the studio now.

⚪️#258 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Aliyev,Ravan (2351)
🔸Gasimov,Parviz (2303)
🔸Baku Open 2018

19.Nf4! [Although Black has the bishop pair, White has some advantage thanks to his centralized knights which play an important role in the game.]

[19.g4 Kh7 20.Ng3 c5 21.Nf4 (21.dxc5 bxc5 22.Nxc5 Bd7 23.Ba4 Rdc8 24.Bxd7 Rxc5 25.Qa4 Rxb2³) 21...e5 22.dxe5 Bxg4 23.Qc4 h5 24.exf6 Bxf6 25.Nd5 Qg7 26.Nxf6+ Qxf6 27.Rxd8 Rxd8 28.Ne4 Qe7 29.f4 Ne6=; 19.f4 f5 20.Nef2 Bb7 21.Ba4 c5 22.dxc5 bxc5 23.Nxc5 Bd5 24.Nfd3=]

19...f5 20.Ng3±

1–0