Semifinals of FIDE Grand Prix start today in Hamburg.
🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Alexander Grischuk 🇷🇺
🇵🇱 Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs Daniil Dubov 🇷🇺
Watch it live at http://worldchess.com
🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Alexander Grischuk 🇷🇺
🇵🇱 Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs Daniil Dubov 🇷🇺
Watch it live at http://worldchess.com
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The 2019 #WinterChessClassic A & B tournaments kicked off yesterday in the St. Louis Chess Club.
Group A is headed by USA's Jeffery Xiong who defeated Indian GM Sethuraman in the 1st round. #chess
See full standings below.
Group A is headed by USA's Jeffery Xiong who defeated Indian GM Sethuraman in the 1st round. #chess
See full standings below.
Judit Polgar: Chess in education, chess and gender. I am very pleased to see both topics united in this conference, so I feel that I must be part of it.
https://londonchessconference.com/judit-polgar-joins-the-conference-team/
https://londonchessconference.com/judit-polgar-joins-the-conference-team/
Chess and Female Empowerment
Judit Polgar Joins the Conference Team
We are pleased and honoured to reveal that Judit Polgar is part of the London Chess Conference as its Honorary Director. She has been consulting us on various aspects of the conference, its program…
39...d4! [Black opens the long diagonal for his light-squared bishop and wins an exchange by force.]
[39...Ng4!? 40.Bxg4 d4+ 41.Rf3 dxc3 42.Nxc3 f5! 43.Bh3 Nc5 44.Kh2 Bxf3 45.Qxf3 Red8³]
40.Rxd4 [¹40.Nxd4 Ng4 41.Qe2 Nxe3 42.Qxe3 f6! 43.Bxa8 Qxa8+ 44.Kh2 fxe5 45.fxe5 Bb4=/+]
40...Ng4 41.Qe2 Nxe3 42.Rxd7™ Nf5! [N×g3]
43.Kh2 Bxf3 44.Qxf3 Red8! 45.Rxd8 Rxd8-/+ [Rd2]
[39...Ng4!? 40.Bxg4 d4+ 41.Rf3 dxc3 42.Nxc3 f5! 43.Bh3 Nc5 44.Kh2 Bxf3 45.Qxf3 Red8³]
40.Rxd4 [¹40.Nxd4 Ng4 41.Qe2 Nxe3 42.Qxe3 f6! 43.Bxa8 Qxa8+ 44.Kh2 fxe5 45.fxe5 Bb4=/+]
40...Ng4 41.Qe2 Nxe3 42.Rxd7™ Nf5! [N×g3]
43.Kh2 Bxf3 44.Qxf3 Red8! 45.Rxd8 Rxd8-/+ [Rd2]
Born on this day in 1933 in Belgrade - Borislav Ivkov.
World Junior Champion (1951), World Championship Candidate (1965), 3-time Yugoslav champion (1958, 1963, 1972). Pictured here at Hilversum, 12th June 1973.
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World Junior Champion (1951), World Championship Candidate (1965), 3-time Yugoslav champion (1958, 1963, 1972). Pictured here at Hilversum, 12th June 1973.
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Today is the 85th anniversary of the birth of the great Leonid Stein. This blog post features a translations of annotations (by Stein and Tal) to a spectacular game of his from the 31st USSR Championship.
https://dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/stein-klovans-31st-ussr-ch-leningrad-1963-with-annotations-by-stein-and-tal/
https://dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/stein-klovans-31st-ussr-ch-leningrad-1963-with-annotations-by-stein-and-tal/
Soviet Chess History
Stein-Klovāns, 31st USSR-ch (Leningrad, 1963), with annotations by Stein and Tal.
Glancing through an issue of the Soviet Latvian magazine Shakhmaty (Riga) for the first time recently, my eye was caught by a diagram of a familiar position. The same diagram appears in Taimanov an…
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A gripping 3-minute long narrative of the last round of the 27th Chess Olympiad in Dubai, with the Soviet Union, England and the United States fighting for the gold.
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Has there ever been a more spectacular resignation in chess than that of Włodzimierz Schmidt to Garry Kasparov in the last round of the 27th Chess Olympiad (Dubai, December 1, 1986)?😂
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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 16
Meet Abhimanyu Mishra, the youngest International Master in the world! This boy from New Jersey achieved the title at the age of 10 years 9 months and 3 days, eclipsing Praggnanandhaa's record of the youngest IM by 17 days.
https://chessbase.in/news/Abhimanyu-Mishra-becomes-the-youngest-IM-in-the-world
https://chessbase.in/news/Abhimanyu-Mishra-becomes-the-youngest-IM-in-the-world
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Abhimanyu Mishra breaks Praggnanandhaa's record, becomes the youngest IM in the world - ChessBase India
A lot of young talents like Praggnanandhaa, Sindarov,...