🔸St Louis Winter A 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Shimanov,A (2620)
⚫️Motylev,A (2661)
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24.Nc4! [The best square for the knight to control the opponent's weak dark squares.]

24...Re6 [24...Re8? 25.Nxd4 △Rf1 25...cxd4 26.Rf1 Nd7 27.Qf4‚ Qe7 28.Bxd4+–]

25.Nxd4 cxd4 26.Bh3! [△Rf1]

26...h6 [26...Rc6 27.Rf1 Bg7 28.Qf4‚ b5 29.axb5 axb5 30.Rxa8 Bxa8 31.Na3 Rc5 32.Qf2!±]

27.Qf4 Nh5 28.Qd2! [△Rf1]

[28.Qf2!? Rf6 29.Qd2 Rb8 30.Ne5 Bc8 31.Bg2 b5 32.Rec1! △Nc6 32...bxa4 33.Rxa4 Rxb3 34.Nc6 Rxc6 35.Rxc6 Qe8 36.Rcc4±]

28...Re8 29.Rf1 [△Qf2]

29...b5 30.axb5 axb5 31.Na5+– [△N×b7]

USSR team wins the 1966 Cuba, Havana chess olympiad.
Can you name all the players from left to right?

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"Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess."

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch

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Footage of the USSR vs The rest of the world, if only these footages would be longer. So nice to see all the legends playing.

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USSR vs Rest of the World 1970
http://bit.ly/2Lkh0OC

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🔸 USSR vs Rest of the World 1970
🔸 PGN format

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 8

🔸St Louis Winter A 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Quesada Perez,Yu (2612)
⚫️Melkumyan,H (2668)
🔸1-0

40.h3! [A quiet but strong move. Besides opening an escape square for his king, White strengthens the outpost on g4.]

40...Rxg4 [40...Kg8 41.Nc4! Qe6 42.Bd2 Rxg4 43.Rxg4+– △R×h4]

41.Rxg4 Rf4 42.Kh2!? [A closer look at the position shows that Black has no useful move and almost all of his pieces are tied to defending somewhere. Therefore, White is in no hurry to attack and improves his king's position.]

[¹42.Rxf4! exf4 43.Ng4 △Bf6 43...Bxc3™ 44.Qxc3 Qd4 45.Qb3! c4 46.dxc4 Qd1+ 47.Kh2 △c5 47...Qxc2 48.Qxf3 Qxc4 49.Qxf4 Kg8 50.Qd6+–]

42...Qf7 43.Qxf7 Rxf7 44.Rxh4+ Kg8 45.Rg4 Rd7 46.Rg1+–

1946, Championship of Georgia. Out of the competition, Keres and Mikenas played. 16-year-old Tigran played a draw with Paul. A precious record of the game, he was so afraid of losing that he lost! Many years later, Keres presented the world champion with a second form ...

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"You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent."

🔸 Viswanathan Anand

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One of José Raúl Capablanca's finest queen sacrifices was played in a game against A. Chase in New York on February 23, 1922.

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International Master & trainer V. N. Kozlov (b. 1950) has passed away.
In this famous photo of the Botvinnik training school (also featuring Dvoretsky, Jussupow & a young Kasparov), Kozlov is seated on the far right.

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 9

What a checkmate! 😍

Shuvalova sacrifices her queen and rook with 31.Rxg7+! and 32.Qxh7+!! to begin one of the prettiest finishes you'll ever see at the 2019 World Youth Girl's Championship!

https://www.chess.com/events/2019-world-youth-girls-championships/07-Shuvalova_Polina-Afonasieva_Anna

Shuvalova, Polina - Afonasieva, Anna

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World Youth Girl's Chess Championships 2019 round 07

A 5-year-old girl is playing grown men in chess, blindfolded. And she's winning