Hilarious moment from yesterday's Francophone Blitz as IM Borya Ider, playing GM Jules Moussard, accidentally sends a pawn flying onto the top board Gurevich-Hamdouchi clash!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/francophone-2019-blitz/6/1/1

Final combined standings of rapid and day 1 of blitz. We have 9 more...#STLRapidBlitz

Maxime continues his cunning strategy of winning/leading rapid and blitz tournaments while leaking rating points! :)
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Interview with Magnus Carlsen after day 1 of blitz #STLRapidBlitz

Also at the Yerevan Pioneers' Palace, the legendary endgame study composer Genrikh Kasparian. Pictured in 1973.

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Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies

"For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true; but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot!"

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Fischer vs Petrosian Bled 1961.
This was Fischers first win over Petrosian and he included it in his book My 60 memorable games.
Petrosian played the Caro-Can as Bobby had a terrible score but this wasn't the 16 year old Bobby anymore and he defeated him in a simple way.

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Robert James Fischer 🆚 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian

Bled (1961), Bled YUG, rd 18, Sep-30
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Yasser Seirawan played tennis with Robert Byrne in Merano 1981 between world championship games. Yasser was Kortchnoi's second.

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The 1981 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Merano, Italy from October 1 to November 19, 1981.
In the end final score was 6-2 in Karpovs favor (+6 -2 =10).

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