19th Century Chess : From Sarratt to Morphy‎

https://www.chess.com/article/view/19th-century-chess-from-sarratt-to-morphy

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🔸 David Bronstein

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🔸TCh-SVK 2018–19
🔸Round 1
⚪️Vajda,Le (2547)
⚫️Svoboda,S (2425)
🔸1-0

22.Ba4! [White intends to take advantage of his well-coordinated pieces to win material.]

22...Nc8 [22...Be5 23.Nd7 Rxd7 24.Bxd7 Qxd7 25.f4!‚ Qc7 26.fxe5 Nc4 27.Rd4±]

23.Nd7! [△Qc5]

23...Rfe8 24.Qc5! [White offers to exchange the queens in a position where the Black will not accept it because of material loss and so he has to move his queen to a worse position.]

[24.Nc5?! Bf8 25.Bxe8 Bxc5 26.Bxf7+ Kxf7 27.Qh4™ Rxd1+ (27...Rh8÷) ]

24...Qf4 [24...Qxc5 25.Nxc5 Rf8 26.Nxb7 Rd5 27.Rxd5 exd5 28.Rd1 Ne7 29.Nc5 Ra8 30.g4+–]

25.Rd3?!± [¹25.g3! △Qc7 would be better: 25...Qf3 26.Qc7 Na7 27.Nc5 Rc8 28.Qb6 Bf8 29.Nxb7 Re7 30.Nd6+–]

Hastings 1977. Tigran Petrosyan and Roman Dzhindzhikhashvili. Both were born in Tbilisi. Both passionately loved to play blitz. Both loved to joke during the game. Young Jonathan Tisdall is surprised and admires the game of Masters!

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"Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess...."

🔸 Reuben Fine

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Amsterdam, 15th July 1969. In the opening round of the traditional IBM tournament, Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia) faces Robert Byrne (USA).

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Via AP Archive, footage of the international tournament at San Antonio, Texas, 1972. Featured, amongst others, are Petrosian & Portisch (who shared 1st-3rd place in the event with Karpov), Gligorić, Portisch, Larsen, Hort, Keres, Kaplan and Mecking.

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Little prodigy Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa, from India, in the 4 Knights chess opening against strong russian Grandmaster.

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Move of the Day!

A cold day for that boy in Reykjavík at the end of July 1972.

Despite losing in the last round, Alexandra Kosteniuk becomes the European Women's Blitz Champion 2019!🏆

With 10 points in 13 games, she is the sole winner of the event in Monaco.

The European Women's Blitz Championship finished in Monaco. 88 players participated in the event.

Having scored 10 points out of 13, the Russian Alexandra Kosteniuk won the title. Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria), Valentina Gunina (Russia), Marie Sebag (France), Natalia Zhukova (Ukraine), and Alina Kashlinskaya (Russia) are half a point behind. Thanks to the superior tiebreak, Stefanova took the second place, while Gunina won bronze.
The European Women's Rapid Championship starts on November 30

Results:
http://chess-results.com/tnr467803.aspx?lan=1&art=4

Legendary Maia Chiburdanidze (2497) comes back at the board seeded number 3 at the European Women's Blitz Championship that takes place in Monaco today. She has not played a rated game since summer 2012!

Good instincts, Marie Sebag. 😂