💢 Dronavalli Harika
💢 Indian chess Grandmaster
♦️ Harika is an Indian chess player. She earned the third norm required for the Grandmaster title on July 23rd, 2011, by scoring 5.5 out of 9 in the 2011 Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament in Hangzhou, China.
🔸 Full name: Dronavalli Harika
🔸 Country: India
🔸 Born: 12 January 1991 (age 28) Gorantla, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2011) Woman Grand Master (2004)
🔸 FIDE rating: 2503 (February 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2543 (November 2016)
♦️WGM (2004) and GM (2011). Harika is a bright young talent from India. Her achievements include conquering the world titles of World Youth Champion in 2006 (Girls Under-18) and U-14 Girls Champion in 2004. In 2007 Harika became the Women's Commonwealth Chess Champion. She added another feather to her cap, by becoming Women's World Junior Champion in 2008.
♦️ In 2011, Harika won her 3rd GM norm when she came second in the 1st Hangzhou Women's GM Tournament (2011) to become India's second female grandmaster. In August 2012, she came =3rd at the Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament 2012 with 7/9, half a point behind the joint leaders. She competed in the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated Indian WGM Soumya Swaminathan, Armenian GM Elina Danielian, Georgian IM and WGM Lela Javakhishvili, and Chinese GM Zhao Xue to reach the semi finals. There she met and lost to former Women's World Champion, Bulgarian GM Antoaneta Stefanova to bow out of the contest.
♦️ A memorable game by Harika 👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Nigel Short vs Dronavalli Harika
▪️ Tradewise Gibraltar (2016), Catalan Bay GIB, rd 3, Jan-26
▪️ French Defense: Tarrasch. Morozevich Variation (C03)
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💢 Indian chess Grandmaster
♦️ Harika is an Indian chess player. She earned the third norm required for the Grandmaster title on July 23rd, 2011, by scoring 5.5 out of 9 in the 2011 Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament in Hangzhou, China.
🔸 Full name: Dronavalli Harika
🔸 Country: India
🔸 Born: 12 January 1991 (age 28) Gorantla, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2011) Woman Grand Master (2004)
🔸 FIDE rating: 2503 (February 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2543 (November 2016)
♦️WGM (2004) and GM (2011). Harika is a bright young talent from India. Her achievements include conquering the world titles of World Youth Champion in 2006 (Girls Under-18) and U-14 Girls Champion in 2004. In 2007 Harika became the Women's Commonwealth Chess Champion. She added another feather to her cap, by becoming Women's World Junior Champion in 2008.
♦️ In 2011, Harika won her 3rd GM norm when she came second in the 1st Hangzhou Women's GM Tournament (2011) to become India's second female grandmaster. In August 2012, she came =3rd at the Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament 2012 with 7/9, half a point behind the joint leaders. She competed in the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated Indian WGM Soumya Swaminathan, Armenian GM Elina Danielian, Georgian IM and WGM Lela Javakhishvili, and Chinese GM Zhao Xue to reach the semi finals. There she met and lost to former Women's World Champion, Bulgarian GM Antoaneta Stefanova to bow out of the contest.
♦️ A memorable game by Harika 👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Nigel Short vs Dronavalli Harika
▪️ Tradewise Gibraltar (2016), Catalan Bay GIB, rd 3, Jan-26
▪️ French Defense: Tarrasch. Morozevich Variation (C03)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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📘 36...f2!
A spectacular finish by Nakamura!
37.B×f2 Re7! 38.Q×e7 Q×c3+ 39.Ka3 Qa5#
A spectacular finish by Nakamura!
37.B×f2 Re7! 38.Q×e7 Q×c3+ 39.Ka3 Qa5#
📘 16...Qb5?
The Natural move 16...0-0 would keep Black's advantage
17.b3!
Ivanchuk is probably surprised by this move.
17...Q×b4 18.a×b4 Bb5 19.Ra7!
The point in playing 17.b3!
19...B×f1 20.R×b7 Nc6 21.K×f1 0-0? 22.b5 Na5 23.Rc7 1-0
The Natural move 16...0-0 would keep Black's advantage
17.b3!
Ivanchuk is probably surprised by this move.
17...Q×b4 18.a×b4 Bb5 19.Ra7!
The point in playing 17.b3!
19...B×f1 20.R×b7 Nc6 21.K×f1 0-0? 22.b5 Na5 23.Rc7 1-0
📘 39...h4??
Rapport made a blunder in a winning position.
(39...Kf8 40.Bd5 Rd2 —->h4 -+)
40.Bd5 Raa1 41.R×f7+ Kg8 42.Rf6+ Kh8 43.Rf8+ Kh7 44.Rf7+ with a perpetual check.
Rapport made a blunder in a winning position.
(39...Kf8 40.Bd5 Rd2 —->h4 -+)
40.Bd5 Raa1 41.R×f7+ Kg8 42.Rf6+ Kh8 43.Rf8+ Kh7 44.Rf7+ with a perpetual check.
📘 29...R×f2!!
An excellent finishing combination
30.R×f2 Re1+ 31.Rf1 Q×a4! 32.Qd3
(32.Q×a4?? Be3+ 33.Kh1 R×f1#)
32...R×f1+ 33.K×f1 Qd1+ 34.Kf2 Be1+ 35.Ke3 Bf2+ 36.Ke4 Q×d3+ 37.K×d3 B×d4 38.K×d4 g5 -+
An excellent finishing combination
30.R×f2 Re1+ 31.Rf1 Q×a4! 32.Qd3
(32.Q×a4?? Be3+ 33.Kh1 R×f1#)
32...R×f1+ 33.K×f1 Qd1+ 34.Kf2 Be1+ 35.Ke3 Bf2+ 36.Ke4 Q×d3+ 37.K×d3 B×d4 38.K×d4 g5 -+
Robert James Fischer and Tigran Vartanovič Petrossiàn enjoying blitz at the Moscow Central Chess Club in June 1958.
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Grandmasters Bent Larsen and Fridrik Olafsson playing an exhibition game of living chess in Laugarvatn, Iceland, August 6, 1972.
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Bobby Fischer and Susan Polgar playing chess 960, Budapest during 1993 is one of the few pictures of Bobby taken during his "lost years" after the 1992 rematch with Boris Spassy.
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🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Henderson ,Lance (2429)
⚫️Dubov,Daniil (2694)
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🔸Round 7
⚪️Henderson ,Lance (2429)
⚫️Dubov,Daniil (2694)
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🔸 José Raúl Capablanca
🔸 Cuban chess Grandmaster
♦️ José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
▪️ Full name: José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera
▪️ Country: Cuba
▪️ Born: 19 November 1888 Havana, Cuba, Spain
▪️ Died: 8 March 1942 (aged 53) New York City, New York, U.S.
▪️ World Champion: 1921–1927
♦️ Jose Raul Capablanca was born in Havana, Cuba on the 19th of November 1888. He learned chess at the age of four by watching his father play and in 1901, at the age of 12, he beat Juan Corzo, the Cuban champion. Capablanca was regarded as the most naturally talented chess player anyone had ever seen. He was educated in America, studied engineering at Columbia University and spent much of his free time playing masters at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York City, where he achieved a sensational win in a match against US Champion Frank Marshall crushing him by 8 wins to 1 with 14 draws in 1909 when he was 20 years old. Frank Marshall had unsuccessfully played Lasker in a World Championship match only two years earlier.
♦️ In 1911 Capablanca challenged Lasker for the world championship. Lasker agreed to the challenge but imposed 17 conditions for a future match. Capablanca disagreed with these conditions and the match did not take place.
♦️ A memorable game by Capablanca👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Jose Raul Capablanca vs Richard Teichmann
🔹 Berlin exh (1913), Berlin GER, rd 2, Nov-20
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Capablanca Variation (D63)
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🔸 Cuban chess Grandmaster
♦️ José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
▪️ Full name: José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera
▪️ Country: Cuba
▪️ Born: 19 November 1888 Havana, Cuba, Spain
▪️ Died: 8 March 1942 (aged 53) New York City, New York, U.S.
▪️ World Champion: 1921–1927
♦️ Jose Raul Capablanca was born in Havana, Cuba on the 19th of November 1888. He learned chess at the age of four by watching his father play and in 1901, at the age of 12, he beat Juan Corzo, the Cuban champion. Capablanca was regarded as the most naturally talented chess player anyone had ever seen. He was educated in America, studied engineering at Columbia University and spent much of his free time playing masters at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York City, where he achieved a sensational win in a match against US Champion Frank Marshall crushing him by 8 wins to 1 with 14 draws in 1909 when he was 20 years old. Frank Marshall had unsuccessfully played Lasker in a World Championship match only two years earlier.
♦️ In 1911 Capablanca challenged Lasker for the world championship. Lasker agreed to the challenge but imposed 17 conditions for a future match. Capablanca disagreed with these conditions and the match did not take place.
♦️ A memorable game by Capablanca👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Jose Raul Capablanca vs Richard Teichmann
🔹 Berlin exh (1913), Berlin GER, rd 2, Nov-20
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Capablanca Variation (D63)
♦️ Review this game and download this game and "Capablanka's 590 games database" by PGN format👇🏼👇🏼
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