The passing of a chess era: former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who had battled Gary Kasparov in the previous five world championship matches, would not have a chance to do it again in 1993. He was eliminated by Nigel Short in the Candidates Semifinals, Linares, May 1992.

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"As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively."

🔸 Mark Dvoretsky

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Amsterdam Interzonal, 8th June 1964. The opening moves of Larsen-Portisch (which saw the unusual 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.exd5 exd5 5.Qf3!?).
Larsen won in 33 moves, & it made it into his '50 Selected Games'.

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Bent Larsen 🆚 Lajos Portisch

Amsterdam Interzonal (1964), Amsterdam NED, rd 15, Jun-08
French Defense: Winawer. Delayed Exchange Variation (C01) ·

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JUGA - TACTICAL

Juga, the talented Chilean singer, invites you to a contest in which chess history buffs and big Mikhail Tal fiends should be clear favorites. The challenge closes tonight! 🔎

https://www.chess.com/news/view/want-to-win-a-diamond-membership-enter-my-chess-song-contest

The game of the 3rd round of the ongoing European Club Cup between David Howell and Pentala Harikrishna lasted for 236 moves!

It ended in a draw and was close to the record of the longest tournament game of chess. Do you know which game was the longest ever?

Ivan Nikolic 🆚 Goran Arsovic. Belgrade (1989) 269 move!

The game of chess became a crazy game full of magic for almost a year and it still is deep in every one of us, thanks for Mikhail Tal the pirate of Latvia. We will never forget him.