Today's #SundayTactics is dedicated to the birthday of Ukrainian GM Oleg Romanishin who turns 69.
Find a killer move for White in Romanishin-Lobron, played in Biel 1987.
Find a killer move for White in Romanishin-Lobron, played in Biel 1987.
"These kinds of things are what chess is all about." Inside Chess 3(1) 1988
Walter Browne would have been 72 today.
(photo from The Chess Player vi-xii 1971)
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Walter Browne would have been 72 today.
(photo from The Chess Player vi-xii 1971)
#TataSteelChess
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β The 2020 http://Chess.com Awards Computer Chess Game of the Year goes to Leela vs. Stockfish 11, CCC 13 Finals!
See the full list of award winners β¬οΈ
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-2020-chess-com-awards
See the full list of award winners β¬οΈ
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-2020-chess-com-awards
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β| The world greatestβs masterminds return to Wijk aan Zee for the #TataSteelChess Tournament!
π The preparations for the 83rd edition of the #TataSteelChess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee are in full swing! Check out the progress! π
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βπ | Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 π Only 5οΈβ£ days to go!
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π | The best kept secret of the North Sea coast and the perfect place for the #TataSteelChess Tournament: Wijk aan Zee! π
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#OnThisDay 135 years ago, the first game of the first official #chess world championship was played. The match between the eventual winner Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort started on January 11, 1886 in Cartier's Hall on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Via http://chesspro.ru, a photo of the traditional USSR v. Yugoslavia friendly match in Tbilisi, November 1973.
Among those pictured: Chiburdanidze (who was only 12 years old!), Gaprindashvili, Litinskaya-Shul, Petrosian, Taimanov, Vaganian, Vasiukov, GligoriΔ.
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Among those pictured: Chiburdanidze (who was only 12 years old!), Gaprindashvili, Litinskaya-Shul, Petrosian, Taimanov, Vaganian, Vasiukov, GligoriΔ.
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Piotr Romanovsky - Alexander Alekhine, Moscow 1920.
Alekhine offered a draw after move 9, that was accepted. It was enough for him to win the title.
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Alekhine offered a draw after move 9, that was accepted. It was enough for him to win the title.
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World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik signing autographs before the USSR v. Finland match in the opening round of the 11th Olympiad, Amsterdam, 4th September 1954.
(Photo credit: W. van Rossem / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
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(Photo credit: W. van Rossem / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
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FIDE Interzonal tournament, Petropolis (Brazil), August 1973. Local grandmaster Enrique Mecking ('Mequino') is pictured in play v. his Soviet counterpart Efim Geller in the adjourned session of the 12th round. The game was drawn.
(Photo via Veja SΓ£o Paulo.)
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(Photo via Veja SΓ£o Paulo.)
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