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?" 🙏

Replay Durarybayli vs. Suleymanli ➡️ https://chess.com/events/2020-aeroflot-open/06-Durarbayli_Vasif-Suleymanli_Aydin

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.

A new Beast from Baku? 14-year-old Aydin Suleymanli wins the 2020 #AeroflotOpen! https://chess24.com/en/read/news/new-beast-from-baku-aydin-suleymanli-wins-aeroflot
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14-year-old #chess prodigy, IM Aydin Suleymanli won the 2020 Aeroflot Open ahead of a host of grandmasters and strong players!
Watch GM Ben Finegold break down one of his games. ⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anqj0H22rkE

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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Nicolas Rossolimo, who in the 1950s paid his bills by driving a cab in New York: "America, I decided, is a better country for my wife, a better country for my son. A better country for everyone but chess players." https://bit.ly/2Dx5oXL

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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz

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Grandmaster Walter Browne, pictured in play v. Kim Commons at the 1975 U.S. Championship, which was held in Oberlin, Ohio.

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An advert by Walter Browne, from the March, 1974 issue of 'Chess Life & Review'.
A different era...

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Move of the Day!

Daily #chesspuzzle
Ivkov - Portisch, Bled 1961
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/88315

🔸ch-RUS Rapid 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Sarana,A (2618)
⚫️Demidov,M (2520)
🔸1-0

56.Rxb5+! [The only move for the win that needed accurate calculation. Black's king away from the action, is the key to White's victory.]

[56.Ra1? Rf8 57.Kxh6 Rxf5 58.h4 Rxf4 59.h5 Rf5 60.Kg6 Rd5 61.h6 Bd3+ 62.Kf7 Rf5+ 63.Kg7 Rg5+ 64.Kh8 Rh5 65.Kg7 Rg5+=]

56...Kxb5 57.f6! [57.Kxh6?? Kc5! △Kd6 58.f6 Kd6 59.f7 Rf8–+]

57...Kc6 58.f7™ Rf8 59.Kg6™ Kd7 60.f5 [¹60.Kf6!? △f5 60...Rc8 61.Kg7 Ke7 62.f5+–]

60...Ke7 61.f6+™ Ke6 62.f4™ [△f5]

62...Rc8 63.f5+ Ke5 64.Kg7+–

Remembering GM Gennady Kuzmin.

GM Gennady Kuzmin passed away at the age of 74.

He was a well-known player (three times Ukrainian champion!) and coach (trained Lagno and Ponomariov).

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