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14-Year-Old Sensation Suleymanli Wins Aeroflot Open
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Congrats to 14-year-old IM Aydin Suleymanli on a historic victory in the #AeroflotOpen! 👏

Also, THANK YOU to him for answering the age-old question: "Can 4 pawns on the sixth rank beat a rook and a knight?" 🙏
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#OnThisDay it's also the 110th birthday of the legendary Armenian chess studies and problems composer Genrikh Kasparyan (Feb. 27, 1910 - Dec. 27, 1995). On this occasion, here's one of his studies. White to play and win. We'll tweet the solution in an hour…
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The solution to Kasparyan's study from 1934:

1. Bh2+ (1. Rb3? e1Q 2. Rxf3+ Kh4 3. Kh2 g4! 4. Bf2+ g3! 5. Bxg3+ Qxg3+! 6. Rxg3 stalemate had to be prevented) 1... Kh4 2. Rxe2! fxe2 3. Bc7! e1Q+ 4. Kh2 Qf2 5. Bd6 $1 Qf4+ 6. g3+ Qxg3+ 7. Bxg3#
The FIDE family keeps growing: today we have confirmed Cayman Islands, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts and Nevis, a new member federations. That brings total membership to 195, making FIDE the 4th largest sports federation by number of member countries.
Happy birthday to women's world number 7 Anna Muzychuk, who turns 30 today! 🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂

As the 4th woman in history to cross the 2600 Elo mark, she won the Women's World Rapid Championship in 2016 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship in 2014 and 2016.
NICOLAS ROSSOLIMO
(born Feb-28-1910, died Jul-24-1975, 65 years old) United States of America
Nicholas Rossolimo was born in Kiev in the Ukraine. Awarded the IM title in 1950 and the GM title in 1953, he moved to Paris with his Russian mother in 1929. Whilst in France he finished 2nd behind Jose Raul Capablanca in 1938 in a tournament in Paris, won the French Championship in 1948, was Paris Champion 5 times and drew 2 matches in 1948 and 1949 with Savielly Tartakower. In 1953 he moved to the USA to be with his father and mother. He worked as a bellhop, a taxi driver, played the accordion and worked as a singer as well as running a chess studio to support himself. A multi-talented man, he spoke five languages and earned a brown belt in judo. He died of head injuries three days after accidentally falling down two flights of stairs in New York in 1975.
Nicolas Rossolimo, early 1920s.

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