Happy Birthday, Hikaru Nakamura! 🎁

Five-times US champion 🇺🇸, one of the strongest players in the world, mega-popular streamer, a fan of mountain climbing and fast speeds, bullet chess being his pet game, Hikaru is all that and more.

The old article of the 1966 Second Piatigorsky Cup, if only there was a super double-round robin with 18 rounds in these days.
Would you like to see a this kind of tournament in these days?

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"Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible."

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik

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Mikhail Tal makes positional queen sacs look easy 😯

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Tal Sacs Queen In The King's Indian - Bobotsov vs. Tal, 1958

Press center of the Leningrad international tournament. Khalifman, Kochiev, Gufeld, Nesis ... Great time for newspapers and Informants ...

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Move of the Day!

Viktor Korchnoi
Qxe2!

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It is very nice to study a chess game real video with 2D board analysis helping you to show the moves.
So let's see a game with World Champ vs former World Blitz Champ.
Here we go...
Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura
World Blitz Championship (2010) (blitz), Moscow RUS, rd 20, Nov-17
French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Variation (C11)

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Happy 32nd Birthday to Hikaru Nakamura! In case you missed the US Champion's recent in-depth interview on 2019 now's a good time to check it out:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/nakamura-on-a-tough-year-fortnite-choker-more

More than 250 players are already registered for the King Salman World Rapid & Blitz.

Here are some of the names:
Magnus Carlsen
Levon Aronian
Anish Giri
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Hikaru Nakamura
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

https://www.fide.com/news/256

#WRBC2019 #rapidblitz

Semyon Furman. More Than Just a Trainer.

https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/semyon-furman-more-than-just-a-trainer

"A lot of the difference between an IM and GM is a seriousness to the game. The GM is willing to go through all this. He's willing to put up with anything. This shows his dedication...."

🔸 Nick de Firmian

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Have you ever seen a chess game with this many queens on the board?

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Botvinnik vs R.Byrne Monte Carlo 1968.
Even at his late 50s Botvinnik was still in a good shape, he finished second behind Larsen with 9/13, Byrne 5th and was one of the few players in the tournament, who finished undefeated.

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