World Champion Anatoly Karpov, photographed in play during a famous victory v. Iosif Dorfman in the 8th round of the 44th USSR-ch, Moscow, 7th December 1976.

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Aleksandar Matanović, winner Hoogoven Beverwijk in 1957.

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🔹 Tata Steel Chess 2018
🔹 Carlsen won in round 7 of Master Group against Hou!!

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🔹 " Magnus Carlsen - Yifan Hou , Tata Steel Masters 2018, Round 7 "


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🔹 " Magnus Carlsen - Yifan Hou , Tata Steel Masters 2018, Round 7 "
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🔹 Annotated by Chess.com


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🔹 All games of "Tata Steel Masters 2018" Round 1-7
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🔹 Analysed by Chessbase Live Server


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🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Hou,Yifan (2680)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2804)
🔸0-1

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Vishy Anand (2767)
⚫️Fabiano Caruana (2811)
🔸1-0

🔹 Tata Steel 2018, round 8 start
🔹 Schedule playing of games 👇🏼👇🏼

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🔹Tata Steel Masters Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 8 - Sunday the 21st:👇🏼👇🏼

🔸Hou, Yifan - Caruana, Fabiano
🔸Adhiban, B. - Karjakin, Sergey
🔸Wei, Yi - Matlakov, Maxim
🔸Giri, Anish - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
🔸Kramnik, Vladimir - So, Wesley
🔸Svidler, Peter - Anand, Viswanathan
🔸Carlsen, Magnus - Jones, Gawain C B

▪️ Live broadcasting : 👇🏼👇🏼

https://goo.gl/mKfScQ



🔹 Tata Steel Challengers Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 8 - Sunday the 21st:👇🏼👇🏼

🔸Bok, Benjamin - Van Foreest, Lucas
🔸Gordievsky, Dmitry - Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi
🔸Bluebaum, Matthias - L'Ami, Erwin
🔸Xiong, Jeffery - Harika, Dronavalli
🔸Korobov, Anton - Amin, Bassem
🔸Girya, Olga - Krasenkow, Michal
🔸Van Foreest, Jorden - Tari, Aryan

▪️ Live broadcasting : 👇🏼👇🏼

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🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 Israeli chess Grandmaster

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🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 Israeli chess Grandmaster

♦️Boris Gelfand is an Israeli chess Grandmaster. A six-time World Championship Candidate, he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him Challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.

🔹 Full name: Boris Abramovich Gelfand
🔹Country: Soviet Union Israel
🔹Born: 24 June 1968 (age50) Minsk, Belarussian SSR, Soviet Union
🔹Title: Grandmaster (1989)
🔹FIDE rating: 2697 (January 2018)
🔹Peak rating: 2777 (November 2013)
🔹Ranking: No. 46 (December 2017)
🔹Peak ranking: No. 3 (July 1990)

♦️ IM (1987); GM (1989); Soviet Junior Champion (1985); European Junior Champion (1989); Olympiad Gold Medalist (1990); World Cup winner (2009); Candidate (1991, 1994, 2002 (Dortmund - PCA), 2007, 2011 and 2013); World Championship Challenger (2012).

♦️ A memorable game by Gelfand which he wrote one of his Favourite Variation games in " My Most Memorable Games" book👇🏼👇🏼

▪️ Boris Gelfand vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️ Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996), rd 2, May-22
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)

♦️ Review and download PGN file and PDF format annotated by Gelfand from his book👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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▪️ Boris Gelfand vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️ Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996), rd 2, May-22
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)

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▪️ Boris Gelfand - Vassily Ivanchuk, Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996)
▪️ PGN format
▪️ Dounload full annotated by Gelfand in PDF format👇🏼👇🏼

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▪️ Boris Gelfand - Vassily Ivanchuk, Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996)
▪️ PDF format
▪️ Full annotated by Gelfand

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🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Hou,Yifan (2680)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2804)
🔸0-1

📘 Mamedyarov with active play and putting pressure on the light square achieves a better position.
18...Na5! 19.Qd3 c6 20.Rbb1 Qf5! 21.a4 g5 22.Nh5 Q×d3 23.R×d3 Nd5 =/+

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Wei,Yi (2743)
⚫️Svidler,Peter (2768)
🔸½-½