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No 1 Junior Alireza Firouzja's joining Duda, Vitiugov, Shankland, Harikrishna, Navara, and others at Prague Chess Masters 2020.
#LookingForward to an exciting event!
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World Junior #1 Alireza Firouzja to play in Prague

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The 2nd edition of the Prague Chess Festival starts on February 11. The line up is 💪(2708 average):

Duda
Vitiugov
Firouzja (replaced Wei Yi)
Vidit
Navara
Harikrishna
Anton
Shankland
Ragger
Grandelius

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https://www.chess.com/lessons/play-like-alireza-firouzja/play-like-alireza-firouzja-firouzja-vs-zarkovic

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Play Like Alireza Firouzja: Firouzja vs Zarkovic

When he was just 15 years old, Alireza played one of the greatest attacking games of the 21st century! See if you can find his sacrificial ideas in this amazing Sicilian slaughter!

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Raul Capablanca, at the Semmering/Baden tournament, played in September 1937.

Austria hosted this event sponsored by its main casinos. It was a double round-robin, won by Keres with 9/14.

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https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79625

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Semmering/Baden (1937)

Semmering/Baden (1937) chess tournament: games, players, results, crosstables, discussion forums, etc.

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"Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement..."

🔸 Stanley Kubrick

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Bobby Fischer at the 1962 USA-Poland match.

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Robert James Fischer
Warszawa tt (1962) · Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Reshevsky Variation (D36)

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Bobby Fischer at the 1962 USA-Poland match. @UnityChess

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NEW BLOG POST: With details of a project that I have been working on with Chess_Informant- a fully-revised & greatly extended 50th-anniversary edition of Petrosian & Matanović's book on the 'Match of the Century' (Belgrade, 1970).

https://t.co/XER4A8Hm4i?amp=1

Soviet Chess History

The ‘Match of the Century’ – USSR v. Rest of the World, Belgrade 1970.

A blog post dedicated to a forthcoming work on the ‘Match of the Century’, written in collaboration with ‘Chess Informant’, featuring some background to the event and extrac…

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This piece, dated 12th century, is an example of the representational chess design found in Northern Europe. Made of walrus ivory. Perhaps from Trondheim.

It's a wonderful King whose beard is longer than his sword!

Musée du Louvre

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Cabinet card image of chess robot Ajeeb the Wonderful 1886

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https://t.co/2CS1cVmIpO?amp=1

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Emanuel Lasker Misses Stunning Brilliancy?! - Lasker vs. Mieses, 1889

In the same year as his immortal double bishop sacrifice against Bauer, future world chess champion, Emanuel Lasker, played a wonderful game against Jacques Mieses. Had he finished with a flourish, perhaps this would have been one of Lasker's most famous…

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