"USSR Dream Team - 74" The lead over the second place was 8.5 points, and not a single personal meeting was lost! The strength of the team is evidenced by the fact that Lev Polugaevsky, participant in the quarterfinals of the candidates' matches, was not included in the squad!
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🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
World Champion Anatoly Karpov arrives at the House of Unions in central Moscow during his 1984/85 title match with challenger Garry Kasparov. In the background is the hotel 'Metropol'.
(Photo: V. Zufarov, TASS.) #chess
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(Photo: V. Zufarov, TASS.) #chess
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An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!
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🔸 Anatoly Karpov
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The 21st Olympiad, Nice, 7th June 1974.
Preliminaries, Round 1. On Board 1 of the match USSR v. Scotland, Anatoly Karpov faces Craig Pritchett. Karpov won, but only after Pritchett missed a clear win.
(Photo source: Chess Scotland.) #chess
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Preliminaries, Round 1. On Board 1 of the match USSR v. Scotland, Anatoly Karpov faces Craig Pritchett. Karpov won, but only after Pritchett missed a clear win.
(Photo source: Chess Scotland.) #chess
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The 21st Olympiad, Nice, 7th June 1974. Preliminaries, Round 1. On Board 1 of the match USSR v. Scotland, Anatoly Karpov faces Craig Pritchett. Karpov won, but only after Pritchett missed a clear win. (Photo source: Chess Scotland.) #chess 🔗 Douglas Griffin…
karpov_w_pritchett_1974 (1).pgn
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Great picture of the Lewis chess set, taken in 1901 for Life magazine.
🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)
🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)
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Anatoly Karpov's 1st loss as World Chess Champion. 👀
Ulf Andersson astonishes with 24...d5!! and 27...Rxe3!!, crafting a positional masterpiece! 😍
Ulf Andersson astonishes with 24...d5!! and 27...Rxe3!!, crafting a positional masterpiece! 😍
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Karpov's 1st Loss As World Chess Champion! - Best Of The 70's - Karpov vs. Andersson, 1975
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Chess World Champion Vasily Smyslov was a baritone opera singer. Here in Groningen 1996, casually singing, I believe, Oci Ciornie ...
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🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)
Magnus Carlsen beat Wesley So 5,5-3,5 in the final of
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Banter Blitz series. Here are some tactical highlights of these 9 games, #yourmove!
Games: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/chess24-banter-blitz-series-2020-final/4/1/9
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Banter Blitz series. Here are some tactical highlights of these 9 games, #yourmove!
Games: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/chess24-banter-blitz-series-2020-final/4/1/9
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Carlsen, Magnus vs. So, Wesley | chess24 Banter Series Final 2020
Replay the chess24 Banter Series Final Round 4 game played on 29/09/2020 with computer analysis
Carlsen now has 9 major tournament wins so far in 2020. And #NorwayChess begins October 5th.
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🏆Chess 9LX (*)
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🏆c24 Legends of Chess
🏆Chessable Masters
🏆Steinitz Memorial
🏆Clutch Chess
🏆MC Invitational