🔸TCh-BEL 2018–19
🔸Round 5
⚪️Van den Doel,E (2604)
⚫️Admiraal,M (2491)
🔸1-0

17.Qa4! [Trying to gain the initiative. White prepares the queenside castling and pins the black knight on d7.]

[17.gxf5?! exf5! 18.Qg2 f4 19.Bd2 0–0–0 20.0–0–0²]

17...Qb4 18.dxe6! [18.Qxb4!? Bxb4 19.dxe6 Nf8 20.Bb5+ Nc6 21.0–0–0 fxg4 22.Rd4!±]

18...Qxa4 19.Nxa4 Bb4+ 20.Ke2 Nf6 21.gxf5!± [△Bg2]

⚪️#270 (Strategy-ًWhite to Move)
🔸Santeramo,Alessia (2064)
🔸Raccanello,Marianna (2030)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 270
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C) f4 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @RahmaniArapardaz, Max, Majid, Louis, Hansika, @Kingbosskasyap

A) Na7 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍 42%
@Ako1983, @soheil_hooshdaran, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, Christian, Arianna

B) e×d5
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚪️#270 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Yao,Stefano (2360)
🔸Loiacono,Antonio (2293)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 270
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B) R×e5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
@Ako1983, Hadi, @RahmaniArapardaz, Nikhil, Majid, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, Louis, @AnuragisGreat

C) Bf1 – 5
👍👍👍👍 38%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Max, @soheil_hooshdaran, Hansika, @Kingbosskasyap

A) B×b7
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

Found this while browsing online recently. No date, place or credit stated.
The only one in the photo that I can identify with certainty is Semyon Furman (centre). From the look of him, this is perhaps the early 1950s. (It could perhaps be Vladimir Simagin on the right?!)

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“Too many times, people do not try their best. They do not have the keen spirit, the winning spirit. And once you make it you have got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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Wijk aan Zee, 20th January 1975. In round 6 of the Hoogovens tournament, Luben Popov (Bulgaria) is in play v. Lajos Portisch (Hungary). Soviet grandmaster Semyon Furman can be seen standing on the left.

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Rare Footage of the moment when Kasparov won the title in 1985 against Karpov with a result of 13 to 11 and managed to hold the title for 15 years.

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17-year-old WGM Annie Wang 🇺🇸 won Panamerican Junior U20 Championship in the open section competing with the boys.⚡️She gets a direct IM title and a GM norm.

The championship just ended in Bolivia. Results:
http://chess-results.com/tnr458944.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&turdet=YES&flag=30&fbclid=IwAR2IfLlYgw1zE42A6F5kOdsQUy8yMUOW83T9J6i4dQqfaIoKG3LDl_REfwQ

The Baadur Jobava juggernaut rolls on!!

#adchessfestival

Baadur Jobava v Parham Maghsoodloo is a highly entertaining Sicilian brawl.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/abu-dhabi-masters-2019/6/1/1

Peter Leko won the rapid part of the match vs Alexander Morozevich 5-1. Blitz tomorrow.

The match as a part of 26th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival where GM Baadur Jobava is unstoppable so far with 6/6!