Some portraits from the Hoogovens tournament at Wijk aan Zee, January 1984.
Robert Hübner (BRD), Eugenio Torre (Philippines), Aleksandr Beliavsky & Vladimir Tukmakov (both - USSR).

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“Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.”

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

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Inspired by Alireza Firouzja, FM Joachim Iglesias is taking a look at the best sixteen 16-year-olds in chess history!

Move of the Day!

Daily #chesspuzzle

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Game of the Day!

19)Qxh7!!

Sergei Lobanov Wins Main Event of Moscow Open 2020

🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 4
⚪️Edouard,R (2636)
⚫️L'Ami,E (2644)
🔸1-0

20.Qf6+! [White correctly decides to give up the c3–pawn in order to attack the opponent's king. Black is behind in development and the dark squares around his king are weak.]

[20.a4?! bxa4 21.Ra3 Nd7 22.Rfa1 Qc7 23.Bf1 Rab8 24.Rxa4 Qxc3=]

20...Kg8 21.Bxd5!! [A beautiful combination. White totally exploits the absence of Black's pieces around the opponent's king.]

21...Nd7™ [21...exd5? 22.e6! Qc7? (22...Rf8 23.exf7+ Rxf7 24.Qxg6+ Kf8 25.Qh6+ Kg8 26.Qg5+! Kf8 27.Qxd5+–) 23.Kg2+– △Rh1]

22.Qe7! [22.Qg5? exd5! 23.e6 Nf8 24.exf7+ Kg7 25.Qe5+ Kxf7 26.Qxd5+ Kg7=]

22...Re8™ 23.Qd6! Rad8 24.Bc6 Nb8 25.Bxe8! [25.Qc5? Nxc6! 26.Qxc6 Rc8 27.Qe4 Qxc3!=/+]

25...Rxd6 26.exd6 Kf8 27.d7!±

Enjoyed this New In Chess
review on how #AlphaZero has influenced the phenomenal World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, by his coach, the brilliant Peter Heine Nielsen

Press centre, World-ch Karpov-Kasparov, Moscow 1984:
...Geller, Beliavsky, Jussupow, Najdorf, Suetin, Chernin, Psakhis, Dolmatov, Taimanov...

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