22...Nc5?! [The black knight cannot do anything here. Black could have created a powerful outpost in the opponent's camp with the following continuation:]
[22...fxe3! 23.Qxe3 (23.fxe3? Nc3! Q×e3 24.Rxf8+ Rxf8 25.Qd2 Nxa2!–+) 23...d4! Nc3 24.Qd3 Nc3 25.Ng3 c5!-/+]
23.Rfd1 Rf5 24.b4 Ne4 25.Qd3 fxe3 26.fxe3? [White may have thought he could not take the pawn with his queen, but in fact, it was the correct way to obtain equality:]
[26.Qxe3 Rxf2 27.Qd4! Qxd4 28.Rxd4 Rb2 29.Rxd5 Rxb4 30.Ng3 c5 31.Nxe4 Rexe4 32.Rxg5+³]
26...Nf2?? [A blunder which at once changes the fate of the game.]
[26...c5! would be correct: 27.bxc5 bxc5µ]
27.Qxd5+! Qxd5 28.Rxd5 [Nf6]
28...Rxd5 29.Nf6+ Kf8 30.Nxd5 Ne4 31.Nxc7+–
[22...fxe3! 23.Qxe3 (23.fxe3? Nc3! Q×e3 24.Rxf8+ Rxf8 25.Qd2 Nxa2!–+) 23...d4! Nc3 24.Qd3 Nc3 25.Ng3 c5!-/+]
23.Rfd1 Rf5 24.b4 Ne4 25.Qd3 fxe3 26.fxe3? [White may have thought he could not take the pawn with his queen, but in fact, it was the correct way to obtain equality:]
[26.Qxe3 Rxf2 27.Qd4! Qxd4 28.Rxd4 Rb2 29.Rxd5 Rxb4 30.Ng3 c5 31.Nxe4 Rexe4 32.Rxg5+³]
26...Nf2?? [A blunder which at once changes the fate of the game.]
[26...c5! would be correct: 27.bxc5 bxc5µ]
27.Qxd5+! Qxd5 28.Rxd5 [Nf6]
28...Rxd5 29.Nf6+ Kf8 30.Nxd5 Ne4 31.Nxc7+–
An exciting first day at Hamburg #FIDEGrandPrix with 4 decisive games.
GMs MVL, Topalov, Svidler, and Duda score a victory in the first of the two classical games.
GMs MVL, Topalov, Svidler, and Duda score a victory in the first of the two classical games.
Hamburg #GrandPrixFIDE, results of day 1:
🇫🇷 Vachier-Lagrave 1-0 Wei Yi 🇨🇳
🇺🇸 Nakamura 0-1 Topalov 🇧🇬
🇨🇿 Navara ½-½ Vitiugov 🇷🇺
🇵🇱 Wojtaszek ½-½ Grischuk 🇷🇺
🇦🇿 Radjabov ½-½ Dubov 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 Svidler 1-0 Harikrishna 🇮🇳
🇷🇺 Jakovenko ½-½ Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳
🇫🇷 Vachier-Lagrave 1-0 Wei Yi 🇨🇳
🇺🇸 Nakamura 0-1 Topalov 🇧🇬
🇨🇿 Navara ½-½ Vitiugov 🇷🇺
🇵🇱 Wojtaszek ½-½ Grischuk 🇷🇺
🇦🇿 Radjabov ½-½ Dubov 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 Svidler 1-0 Harikrishna 🇮🇳
🇷🇺 Jakovenko ½-½ Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳
Grand Chess Tour 2019 continues with the 6th tournament of the Series, Superbet Rapid & Blitz, that starts on November 6 in Bucharest.
10 players. 9 rounds of rapid. 18 rounds of blitz. $150,000 prize fund.
Details:https://grandchesstour.org/2019-grand-chess-tour/2019-Superbet-Rapid-Blitz
10 players. 9 rounds of rapid. 18 rounds of blitz. $150,000 prize fund.
Details:https://grandchesstour.org/2019-grand-chess-tour/2019-Superbet-Rapid-Blitz
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Of course, Boris Becker opened his ceremonial game against Fabiano Caruana at the start of the Grand Chess Tour's Superbet Rapid and Blitz tournament in Bucharest with 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5.
A photo taken at the time of the Groningen tournament, August-September 1946.
L to R: Isaac Boleslavsky, Salo Flohr, Mikhail Botvinnik, Aleksandr Kotov, Vasily Smyslov, Herman Steiner and (I think) Gavriil Veresov.
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L to R: Isaac Boleslavsky, Salo Flohr, Mikhail Botvinnik, Aleksandr Kotov, Vasily Smyslov, Herman Steiner and (I think) Gavriil Veresov.
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