Bobby Fischer with his half-sister, Joan, and her daughter, Elisabeth, 1962.
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Viktor Korchnoi, unsurpassed master of counter-attacking. He achieved four victories at Wijk aan Zee in a record time span of 19 years between 1968, his first participation, and 1987.

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🔹Tata Steel Masters 2018 ... After round 11
🔹Anish Giri, Magnus Carlsen and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov ... 7.5 / 11 ... (Leaders)

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🔹Visvanatan Anand - Hou Yifan, Tata Steel Masters 2018 , round 11
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🔹Visvanatan Anand - Hou Yifan, Tata Steel Masters 2018 , round 11
🔹Analysis and comments by GM Daniel Fernandez
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🔹Sergey Karjakin - Vladimir Kramnik, Tata Steel Masters 2018 , round 11
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🔹Sergey Karjakin - Vladimir Kramnik, Tata Steel Masters 2018 , round 11
🔹Analysis and comments by GM Daniel Fernandez
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🔹 Tata Steel 2018 Games Database (Rounds 1-11)
🔹 Masters & Challengers
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🔹 Tata Steel 2018, round 12 started
🔹 Schedule of playing games 👇🏼👇🏼

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🔹Tata Steel Masters Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 12 - Saturday the 27th👇🏼👇🏼

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

▪️ Live broadcasting : 👇🏼👇🏼

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🔹 Tata Steel Challengers Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 12 - Saturday the 27th👇🏼👇🏼

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

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🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2804)
⚫️Wei,Yi (2743)
🔸1-0

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Anand,Viswanathan (2767)
⚫️Kramnik,Vladimir (2787)
🔸0-1

🔸 Viktor Korchnoi
🔸 Soviet-Swiss writer and chess grandmaster

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🔸 Viktor Korchnoi
🔸 Soviet-Swiss writer and chess grandmaster

♦️ Viktor Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and writer.
He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.

▪️Full name: Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
▪️Country: Soviet Union (until 1976) Switzerland (since 1994)
▪️Born: 23 March 1931 Leningrad, Soviet Union
▪️Died: 6 June 2016 (aged 85) Wohlen, Switzerland
▪️Title: Grandmaster (1956)
▪️Peak rating: 2695 (January 1979)

♦️ Viktor Korchnoi was born in Leningrad, USSR. His father taught him chess when he was seven years old. He won the Soviet Championship four times: USSR Championship (1960), USSR Championship (1962), USSR Championship (1964/65) and USSR Championship (1970). He made eight appearances in the world championship candidates cycle. He reached the Spassky - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1968), but failed to beat Spassky. In the next cycle he won his quarterfinal Korchnoi - Geller Candidates Quarterfinal (1971), but lost his semifinal match to Tigran Petrosian. He made it to the Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1974), but lost.

♦️ A memorable game by Korchnoi which played in Gibraltar 2011 (Masters Group), 80 years old against Fabiano Caruana and beat him!! 👇🏼👇🏼
💢 Gibraltar 2018 is playing now ....

🔸 Caruana, F. (2721) vs Korchnoi, V. (2544)
🔸 Gibraltar Masters | Caleta ENG | Round 2.3 | 26 Jan 2011 | ECO: C84 |

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🔸 Caruana, F. (2721) vs Korchnoi, V. (2544)
🔸 Gibraltar Masters | Caleta ENG | Round 2.3 | 26 Jan 2011 | ECO: C84 |

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🔸 Cauana - Korchnoi, Gibraltar 2011, round 2
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🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2753)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2811)
🔸1-0

📘 24.d5!
An interesting positional pawn sacrifice.
24...N×d5 25.B×d5 B×d5 26.Qc3+ f6 27.N×d6 c×d6 28.Nd4 +-
The White knight has reached its dream square and dominates the board. The black pawns on a6 and d6 are weak and his king is also not completely safe.

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2804)
⚫️Wei,Yi (2743)
🔸1-0

📘 24...N×b2?
Yi Wei's miscalculation.
(Black could have resisted with 24...R×b2)
25.R×c8+ R×c8 26.a5 Nc4 27.Ra7 Bb4 28.a6 f5 29.Rb7! f×e4 30.Bg4 +-