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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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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A cold day for that boy in Reykjavík at the end of July 1972.
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
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
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Good instincts, Marie Sebag. 😂
Russian team once again equalizes the score against China. The decisive round is ahead
https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/russian_team_once_again_equalizes_the_score_against_china/
https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/russian_team_once_again_equalizes_the_score_against_china/
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Russian Team Once Again Equalizes the Score against China
On November 29, the fourth round of the traditional Russia - China match was played in the Central Chess Club in Moscow. In the open section, the Russian team won 3-2. Esipenko Andrey - Lu Shanglei 1-0, Predke Alexandr - Bai Jinshi 1/2, Xu Xiangyu - Fedoseev…