Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 5

FIDE World Cup Final starts peacefully. Match for the 3rd place also began with a draw.

"I prepared some line but actually before the game I just didn’t like it and decided to call it a day – just a normal day for me!" - Radjabov
The #FIDEWorldCup final matches didn't get off to the fastest of starts :)

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fide-world-cup-final-1-a-normal-day

🔸Tata Steel India Rapid 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Ganguly,S (2615)
⚫️Vidit,S (2702
🔸0-1

22.Rxc8? [Ganguly misses a golden opportunity to gain huge advantage.]

[22.Nb3! Clearing the d4–square for the bishop in order to attack the misplaced Black's queen. 22...axb4?? (22...Rxc1 23.Rxc1 Qa7 24.Nxa5+–) 23.Bd4! Rxc1 24.Rxc1 Qd6 25.Bc5 Qe5 26.Bxe7+–]

22...Bxc8 23.b5=

Michael Tal is usually considered in conjunction with Alexander Koblenz. But Valentin Kirillov was also quite often the second-champion of the ex-world champion. Many years later, he wrote a book of memoirs about his friend, which immediately became a rarity!

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"The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it."

🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch

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Spassky vs Korchnoi 1977 Candidates Final held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

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West German grandmaster Robert Hübner, pictured at the Tilburg Interpolis tournament, October 1986.

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 6

Ding Liren defeats Teimour Radjabov in game 2 of FIDE World Cup Final. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Yu Yangyi made a draw.

Ding Liren's strategic masterclass against Teimour Radjabov's risky opening choice in the second game of the #FIDEWorldCup final.

Ding Liren is the first to score a victory in the #FIDEWorldCup2019 final.
He beats Radjabov in the second game to take a lead in their 4-game match.

Ding, Liren - Radjabov, Teimour

1-0

FIDE World Cup 2019 round 7-2