“Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.”

🔸 Mikhail Tal

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Fischer vs Geller Curacao Candidates 1962.
Before this incounter Fischer had beaten Geller in the Bled 1961 tournament.
In this tournament Geller had a plus score against Fischer (+2 -1 =1) even playing with Black against the sozin attack.

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Robert James Fischer 🆚 Efim Geller

Curacao Candidates (1962), Willemstad CUW, rd 9, May-16
Sicilian Defense: Fischer-Sozin Attack. Leonhardt Variation (B88)

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Robert James Fischer 🆚 Efim Geller
Curacao Candidates (1962), Willemstad CUW, rd 23, Jun-16
Sicilian Defense: Fischer-Sozin Attack. Leonhardt Variation (B88)

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It's Nakamura-Caruana in Round 1 as the Paris #GrandChessTour kicks off tomorrow! Full pairings:

The 2019 U.S. Junior Champion GM Awonder Liang, Junior Girls Champion WIM Carissa Yip, and the Senior Champion GM Alex Shabalov.

Who do you think will win Paris Rapid and Blitz? If it’s someone else... #GrandChessTour
anonymous poll

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 – 17
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 59%

Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 – 4
👍👍 14%

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 🇦🇿 – 3
👍 10%

Daniil Dubov 🇷🇺 – 3
👍 10%

someone else – 2
👍 7%

👥 29 people voted so far.

Paris Rapid and Blitz opening ceremony with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Vachier_Lagrave

Announcing FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series:

1️⃣ Skolkovo (September 10-23, 2019)
2️⃣ Monaco (December 2-15, 2019)
3️⃣ Lausanne (March 1-14, 2020)
4️⃣ Sardinia (May 2-15, 2020)

Second women's world champion Lyudmila Rudenko was born on 27 July 1904.

Did you know that in WWII, Rudenko organized a train to evacuate children from the Siege of Leningrad? She called it her most important accomplishment.

✴️ Today is birthday of Lyudmila Rudenko
🔸 Soviet ches Woman Grandmaster
🔸 Second women's world chess champion

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✴️ About Lyudmila Rudenko

🔸 Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953. She was awarded the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman International Master in 1950, and Woman Grandmaster in 1976

🔸 Soviet ches Woman Grandmaster
🔸 Second women's world chess champion

▪️ Full name: Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: 27 July 1904
Lubny, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
▪️ Died: 4 March 1986 (aged 81)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: International Master (1950)
Woman Grandmaster (1976)
▪️ Women's World Champion: 1950–53

🔸 Born in Lubny, in the Poltava region of what is now Ukraine, Rudenko was taught by her father how to play chess at age 10, although at first she was more serious about swimming. After grammar school, she moved to Odessa and took a degree in economics. Rudenko became the swimming champion of Odessa in the 400 m breaststroke. In 1925, she was swimming vice-champion of Ukraine (breaststroke). She started a career as an economic planner for the Soviet Union, and chess became a hobby.
🔸 Rudenko began playing tournament chess in 1925 after a move to Moscow. In 1928, she won the Moscow women's championship. She then moved to Leningrad, where she met and married scientist Lev Davidovich Goldstein; in 1931 they had a son. In Leningrad in 1929 she began training with chess master Peter Romanovsky. She won the Leningrad women's championship three times.
🔸 In World War II, Rudenko organized a train to evacuate children from the Siege of Leningrad. She described this as the most important accomplishment in her life.
🔸 Women's World Champion Vera Menchik died in 1944 during an air raid. After the war, in the winter of 1949–1950, the World Chess Federation FIDE held a tournament in Moscow to determine the new women's champion. Sixteen women from twelve countries competed, with the four Soviet players taking the top four spots.
By now aged around 40, Rudenko won (scoring nine wins, one loss, and five draws).
She held the Women's World Championship title until losing it to Elisaveta Bykova in 1953 in the next championship cycle. Her score was 6–8 (five wins, seven losses, and two draws).
Rudenko's post-war chess trainers were Alexander Tolush and Grigory Levenfish.

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When your car can do zero-to-sixty faster than you can make your next move, we call that a checkmate.

Chess begins rolling out to the Tesla Arcade globally today 🤠♟

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