The 21st Olympiad, Nice, June 1974. Soviet grandmaster Gennady Kuzmin analyses his game as ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal looks on.

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"A Passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes."

🔸 J. R. Capablanca

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Nice, 1974. The 21st Olympiad. Final Group 'A', Rd. 9 (played 24th June). On Board 3 of the Hungary v. USSR match, Mikhail Tal is pictured in play v. István Csom.

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Mickey Adams won his first British Chess Championship title in 1989, at just seventeen years old. Today, 30 years later, he achieved his 7th title British Chess 2019.

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Congratulations to Surya Sekhar Ganguly on taking the $50,000 top prize after a nervy final round of the Hunan International Open!
He scored 7/9 half a point above Yu Yangyi and Bassem Amin and took home $50.000 first prize.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/belt-and-road-hunan-2019/9/1/1

Ju Wenjun took the $10,000 women's prize after scoring 5.5/9 with 2 wins & 7 draws

http://chess-results.com/tnr459427.aspx?lan=11&art=4

Congratulations to Ian Nepomniachtchi on winning the #LevitovChessWeek on the tiebreak of having won his individual encounter against Alexander Grischuk! All the games can be replayed now:

⚪️#269 (Strategy-ًWhite to Move)
🔸Brunello,M (2338)
🔸Gueci,Tea (2184)
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22.g5? [22.gxf5! Clearing the vital e4–square for the white knight. 22...Rxf5 23.Qh3 Qf8 24.Ne4„; 22.Rg1 Bxh4 23.gxf5 Qxf5 24.Qxf5 Rxf5 25.Kd2 e4 26.Ke2 h5 27.Rf1 Re5 28.Rf4 Bg5 29.Rxe4 Bf6 30.Rf4 Kf7 31.Ne4 Rxd5 32.b4 Ke6 33.Nxf6 gxf6µ]

22...Qc4=/+ [22...Bd8 23.Qh3 Ba5 24.Rf1 Bxc3 25.bxc3 b5-/+]

⚫️#269 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Gueci,Tea (2184)
🔸Sedina,E (2263)
🔸78th ch-ITA Women 2018