Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam ,1962. On their return from the FIDE Candidates' Tournament at Curaçao - joint runner-up (with Efim Geller) Paul Keres, and the winner, Tigran Petrosian.
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On top board in the traditional match between the teams of Moscow & Leningrad, November 1984 - Vassily Smyslov v. Mark Taimanov.
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🔸World Youth Olympiad 2017
🔸Round 6
⚪️Firouzja,Alireza (2526)
⚫️Lobanov,Sergei (2441)
🔸0-1
🔸Round 6
⚪️Firouzja,Alireza (2526)
⚫️Lobanov,Sergei (2441)
🔸0-1
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🔸World Youth Olympiad 2017
🔸Round 7
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2573)
⚫️Rajdeep,Sarkar (2406)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 7
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2573)
⚫️Rajdeep,Sarkar (2406)
🔸1-0
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▪️ Boris Spassky
▪️ Russian Chess Grandmaster
🔹 Full name: Boris Vasilievich Spassky
🔹 Country: Soviet Union France Russia
🔹 Born: January 30, 1937 (age 80) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1955)
🔹 World Champion: 1969–1972
🔹 FIDE rating 2548 (December 2017)
🔹 Peak rating 2690 (January 1971)
♦️ Spassky learned to play chess at the age of 5 on a train evacuating from Leningrad during the siege of Leningrad in World War II. He first drew wide attention in 1947 at age 10, when he defeated Soviet champion Mikhail Botvinnik in a simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad.
♦️Spassky's early coach was Vladimir Zak, a respected master and trainer. During his youth, from the age of 10, Spassky often worked on chess for several hours a day with master-level coaches.
♦️ He set records as the youngest Soviet player to achieve first category rank (age 10), candidate master rank (age 11), and Soviet Master rank (age 15).
In 1952, at 15, Spassky scored 50 percent in the Soviet Championship semifinal at Riga, and placed second in the Leningrad Championship that same year, being highly praised by Botvinnik.
♦️ Now in one of his last Interviews, he said: " I’m in the endgame of my life.” !!
♦️ Review a game of Spassky again Bent Larsen whitch end in 17 moves!!!
▪️ Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky
▪️ USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970), Belgrade SRB, rd 2, Mar-31
▪️ Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01)
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▪️ Boris Spassky
▪️ Russian Chess Grandmaster
🔹 Full name: Boris Vasilievich Spassky
🔹 Country: Soviet Union France Russia
🔹 Born: January 30, 1937 (age 80) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1955)
🔹 World Champion: 1969–1972
🔹 FIDE rating 2548 (December 2017)
🔹 Peak rating 2690 (January 1971)
♦️ Spassky learned to play chess at the age of 5 on a train evacuating from Leningrad during the siege of Leningrad in World War II. He first drew wide attention in 1947 at age 10, when he defeated Soviet champion Mikhail Botvinnik in a simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad.
♦️Spassky's early coach was Vladimir Zak, a respected master and trainer. During his youth, from the age of 10, Spassky often worked on chess for several hours a day with master-level coaches.
♦️ He set records as the youngest Soviet player to achieve first category rank (age 10), candidate master rank (age 11), and Soviet Master rank (age 15).
In 1952, at 15, Spassky scored 50 percent in the Soviet Championship semifinal at Riga, and placed second in the Leningrad Championship that same year, being highly praised by Botvinnik.
♦️ Now in one of his last Interviews, he said: " I’m in the endgame of my life.” !!
♦️ Review a game of Spassky again Bent Larsen whitch end in 17 moves!!!
▪️ Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky
▪️ USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970), Belgrade SRB, rd 2, Mar-31
▪️ Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01)
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▪️ Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky
▪️ USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970), Belgrade SRB, rd 2, Mar-31
▪️ Download 10 best games of Spassky by PGN format
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▪️ USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970), Belgrade SRB, rd 2, Mar-31
▪️ Download 10 best games of Spassky by PGN format
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📘 33.Nd5?? (Ne2+/-) Qg5?
After the white's blunder, black could have finished the game in a few moves.
(33...Nf3! 34.Kh1 Qh4 idea Q×h3
35.g3 B×h3 36.Be2 Bf1+ 37.g×h4 Rg1# 0-1)
After the white's blunder, black could have finished the game in a few moves.
(33...Nf3! 34.Kh1 Qh4 idea Q×h3
35.g3 B×h3 36.Be2 Bf1+ 37.g×h4 Rg1# 0-1)
📘 44.Qd4??
White could have saved himself by playing intermediate move 44.Nc2.
(44.Nc2! Qf2 or Qb1 45.Qf3 = With equal chances due to dangerous pawn on a6.)
44.Qd4? Nce2 45.Qd1 Ng3+ 0-1
White could have saved himself by playing intermediate move 44.Nc2.
(44.Nc2! Qf2 or Qb1 45.Qf3 = With equal chances due to dangerous pawn on a6.)
44.Qd4? Nce2 45.Qd1 Ng3+ 0-1
📘 32.Q×a5? (Rd2 or Re1=)
White's greediness costs him the game.
32...Qh4! 33.Ne3
(33.Qb6+ R×g2+ 34.K×g2 Re2+ 35.Kg1 Qg5 36.Kh1 Qg2#)
33...Qf2+ -+
White's greediness costs him the game.
32...Qh4! 33.Ne3
(33.Qb6+ R×g2+ 34.K×g2 Re2+ 35.Kg1 Qg5 36.Kh1 Qg2#)
33...Qf2+ -+
📘 23.R×h7!!
A surprising combination by Tabatabaei
23...K×h7 24.Rh1+ Kg8 25.Bh6 with the idea of Bg7 and Rh8# 1-0
A surprising combination by Tabatabaei
23...K×h7 24.Rh1+ Kg8 25.Bh6 with the idea of Bg7 and Rh8# 1-0
📘 20.a3!!
Carlsen severely restricts the knight's movements. It takes terrific defensive intuition to realize that White moves with a pawn when already lagging in development.
20.Bd2 Rab8! 21.Rb3 Bxd2 22.Kxd2 Rxb3 23.axb3 Nb4 The black knight on b4 should compensate him for his damaged pawn structure.
20.h4 Rab8 21.Rxb8 Rxb8 with equal chances.
Carlsen severely restricts the knight's movements. It takes terrific defensive intuition to realize that White moves with a pawn when already lagging in development.
20.Bd2 Rab8! 21.Rb3 Bxd2 22.Kxd2 Rxb3 23.axb3 Nb4 The black knight on b4 should compensate him for his damaged pawn structure.
20.h4 Rab8 21.Rxb8 Rxb8 with equal chances.