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Bishop's Opening - Calabrese(C23) Countergambit
Happy birthday to Russian Chess Superstar, and former Women's World Blitz Champion, GM Valentina Gunina!🎂🎉🎁🎈
Happy 30th Birthday to Dmitry Andreikin (World #24)! He won the Russian Chess Championship in 2012 and 2018.🎂🎉
On this day, try to play like him! White to move from Andreikin - Panarin, 2009.
Wijk aan Zee, 12th January 1984. At the opening ceremony for the Hoogovens tournament, L to R: Aleksandr Beliavsky (USSR), Genna Sosonko (Netherlands) & Vladimir Tukmakov (USSR).

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🔸 Nick de Firmian

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Fischer and Smyslov preparing for theyr game at the Monte Carlo tournament 1967.
The game ended in a draw but Fischer won the tournament with a dominating 7/9 score (+6 -1 =2).
It is important to note that in this tournament Fischer suffered his last loss against Geller.

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🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 4
⚪️Andersen,Mad (2594)
⚫️Babula,V (2538)
🔸1-0
12.c5! [White opens the f1–a6 diagonal for his light-squared bishop and tries to prevent Black from developing his pieces.]

12...Be6? [The following continuation would be better:]

[¹12...dxc5 13.Bc4! Be6 (13...e6? 14.0–0 Ne7 15.Qf6 Rf8 16.Rcd1 Bd7 17.Rxd7 Kxd7 18.Rd1+ Ke8 19.Bg5 Qc7 20.Qxe7+ Qxe7 21.Bb5++–) 14.Bxe6 fxe6 15.e5! Qa6 16.Rd1±]

13.cxd6! [△Bd4]

13...0–0–0 14.Bd4 Nf6 15.Qf4?!± [White could have finished the game at once with:]

[15.e5! Nd7 16.dxe7 Rde8 17.Rb1! Bd5 18.Qh3‚ Rxe7 19.Bd3 Kb8 20.0–0+–]

1–0
⚫️#527 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Fischer,R
🔸Geller,E
🔸Monte Carlo, 1967
22...Be4!
A tremendous move. The bishop shuts out the white queen's attack on e5 and clears the way for 23...Rb8, followed either by 24...Rb1 with a winning simplification, or 24...Rb2 with a lethal counterattack against g2.
23.Bg4 Rb8 24.Bd1
White's last hope is a bishop check on a4. Geller scotches this with a fine king maneuver.
24...Kd7!
It turns out that the safest place for the black king is on the third rank.
25.Rf7+ Ke6-+
After 25...Ke6 26.Rf1 Rb2 27.Bg4+ Kd5 the black king is delighted on d5, and the white king is in despair on h1.
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