🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 2
⚪️Pacher,M (2453)
⚫️Aczel,G (2549)
🔸0-1

43...a4! [The only way to play for a win. Now White's king will be tied up by Black's passed a-pawn.]

[43...Ke6? 44.Kd4 Kxd6 45.Nc8+! Kc6 46.Na7+! Kb6 47.Nc8+ Kc6 48.Na7+ Kd6 49.Nc8+ Kd7 50.Kxc5 Kxc8 51.Kb5 Kd7 52.Kxa5 Kc6 53.Kb4 g6=]

44.Kd2?! [White could have put up more stubborn resistance with:]

[¹44.Kd4 a3! 45.Kc3 Ke6 46.d7 Ke7‡ 47.Kc2 h5! 48.Nd5+ Kxd7 49.gxh5 f5 50.Kb1 Kd6 51.Ka2 Ke5!µ]

44...Ke6 45.d7 Ke7 46.Kc2 Kd8 47.Kb2 g6! [Preparing to create another passed pawn.]

48.Nd5 f5 49.gxf5 gxf5 50.Ka3 Kxd7! 51.Kb4 Kd6 52.Ne3 [52.h4 h5‡ 53.Nf4 Ke5! 54.Nxh5 f4 55.Ka3 f3 56.Ng3 f2 57.h5 Kf4! 58.Nf1 Kg5 59.Ng3 Kg4 60.h6 Kxg3 61.h7 f1Q 62.h8Q Qxc4–+]

52...f4 53.Nf5+ Ke5! 54.Nxh6 f3–+

Leningrad, 1st November 1956. In the Chigorin Chess Club (Bolshaya Konyushennaya ul., 25), the opening round of the 23rd USSR Championship final is in progress.
Among the pairings: Averbakh-Spassky, Antoshin-Tal, Lisitsyn-Taimanov...

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"If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master."

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik

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Mary Rudge, who died today 100 years ago, was the first woman to play simuls. After winning of the Ladies Chess Congress in London in 1897 she was called the women´s world champion thirty years before the title was officially…

https://londonchessconference.com/an-unofficial-champion/

Hakobyan-Gelfand. The boys are not thinking too much about lofty goals. They just like to play chess!

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Chess players on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow, 1950s.

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After two days of rapid play at #KolkataGCT, Magnus Carlsen is 3 points ahead of the field. But with one more day of rapid chess and two days of blitz to go, the tournament is still very much up for grabs.

https://www.fide.com/news/219

Another impressive day for the World Champ at #KolkataGCT.

He defeated GMs Nakamura and Giri and drew with Vidit to finish the 2nd day 3 points ahead of his nearest rivals.

Rachael Li, 9, Youngest Female US Chess Master Ever
Congratulations to 9 year old Rachael Li for becoming the youngest female US Chess Master in history! Big credits go to her brother GM Ruifeng Li and a very supportive family! Well done! 👏👑👍

https://new.uschess.org/news/rachael-li-9-youngest-female-us-chess-master-ever/

Uzbekistani 15-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2633) wins the Mersin Open - A group with 7/9 points. Congratulations!

The team from the Kiev Pioneers' Palace, pictured in Yerevan, 1939.
Standing on left, Anatoly Bannik & Isaac Lipnitsky. Seated far right, the young David Bronstein.

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"Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list."

🔸 David Bronstein

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Donner Memorial, Amsterdam 1995: Jan Timman vs Julio Granda.

Timman won this game in 48 moves, but nevertheless GM Julio Granda went on to win the tournament.

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Another day, another exhibition from Magnus Carlsen!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/tata-steel-india-day-3-the-carlsen-exhibition