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Excellent footage from the 18th Chess Olympiad, Lugano, Switzerland, October/November, 1968.
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🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Dubov,Daniil (2694)
⚫️Antipov,Mikhail Al (2588)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 8
⚪️Dubov,Daniil (2694)
⚫️Antipov,Mikhail Al (2588)
🔸1-0
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🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gupta,Abhijeet (2610)
⚫️Ivanchuk,Vassily (2726)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gupta,Abhijeet (2610)
⚫️Ivanchuk,Vassily (2726)
🔸1-0
🔹 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔹 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster
♦️ Shahriyar Hamid oglu Mamedyarov is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He is the No. 1 ranked Azerbaijani player and No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings as of February 2018.
▪️ Full name: Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov
▪️ Country: Azerbaijan
▪️ Born: 12 April 1985 (age 33) Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (2002)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2814 (February 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2814 (February 2018)
▪️ Ranking: No. 2 (February 2018)
▪️ Peak ranking : No. 2 (February 2018)
♦️ Grandmaster (2002). U16 Champion of Azerbaijan (2000); U18 Champion of Azerbaijan (2000); European U18 Champion (2002); Champion of Azerbaijan (2001 & 2002); World U18 Champion (2003); World Junior Champion (2003 & 2005); Candidate (2011 & 2014).
♦️A memorable game by Mamedyarov against Evgeny Najer in Sochi which known "Electric Shak" in chessgames.com site 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Evgeny Najer vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Russian Team Championships (2017), Sochi RUS, rd 4, May-05
🔸 Indian Game: Anti-Grünfeld. Alekhine Variation (D70)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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🔹 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster
♦️ Shahriyar Hamid oglu Mamedyarov is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He is the No. 1 ranked Azerbaijani player and No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings as of February 2018.
▪️ Full name: Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov
▪️ Country: Azerbaijan
▪️ Born: 12 April 1985 (age 33) Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (2002)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2814 (February 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2814 (February 2018)
▪️ Ranking: No. 2 (February 2018)
▪️ Peak ranking : No. 2 (February 2018)
♦️ Grandmaster (2002). U16 Champion of Azerbaijan (2000); U18 Champion of Azerbaijan (2000); European U18 Champion (2002); Champion of Azerbaijan (2001 & 2002); World U18 Champion (2003); World Junior Champion (2003 & 2005); Candidate (2011 & 2014).
♦️A memorable game by Mamedyarov against Evgeny Najer in Sochi which known "Electric Shak" in chessgames.com site 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Evgeny Najer vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Russian Team Championships (2017), Sochi RUS, rd 4, May-05
🔸 Indian Game: Anti-Grünfeld. Alekhine Variation (D70)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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📘 15...R×f3!
An excellent exchange sacrifice to demolish white's kingside pawn structure and weaken enemy's king.
16.g×f3 Nc6 17.Bb5 N×d4 18.Q×b4 N×f3+ 19.Kd1 e5 -+
An excellent exchange sacrifice to demolish white's kingside pawn structure and weaken enemy's king.
16.g×f3 Nc6 17.Bb5 N×d4 18.Q×b4 N×f3+ 19.Kd1 e5 -+
📘 30...Re8? (30...Kh8)
A strange blunder and neglect of white's threat on h6.
31.Q×h6 Rbd8 32.Rce1 Re7 33.Re3 1-0
A strange blunder and neglect of white's threat on h6.
31.Q×h6 Rbd8 32.Rce1 Re7 33.Re3 1-0
📘 1.d4 f5 2.Qd3?!
A sideline that introduced by Hans Kmoch against Alekhine in 1926.
(1.d4 f5 2.Qd3 d5 3.Bf4 e6 0-1)
Two more interesting games:
(1.d4 f5 2.Qd3 e6 3.g4 f×g4 4.h3 g3 5.f×g3 d5 6.Bf4 ½-½ Viktor Kortschnoj-Andri Volokitin 2009).
(1.d4 f5 2.Qd3 e6 3.g4 d5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Ne5 N×g4 6.N×g4 f×g4 7.h3 0-1 Amin Tabatabaei (2507)-Sp Sethuraman 2017)
2...Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.e4 Nb4 5.Qe2 f×e4 6.Q×e4 Nf6 7.Qe2
A sideline that introduced by Hans Kmoch against Alekhine in 1926.
(1.d4 f5 2.Qd3 d5 3.Bf4 e6 0-1)
Two more interesting games:
(1.d4 f5 2.Qd3 e6 3.g4 f×g4 4.h3 g3 5.f×g3 d5 6.Bf4 ½-½ Viktor Kortschnoj-Andri Volokitin 2009).
(1.d4 f5 2.Qd3 e6 3.g4 d5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Ne5 N×g4 6.N×g4 f×g4 7.h3 0-1 Amin Tabatabaei (2507)-Sp Sethuraman 2017)
2...Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.e4 Nb4 5.Qe2 f×e4 6.Q×e4 Nf6 7.Qe2
📘 27...Nf4??
Nigel Short's blunder in a worse position.
28.Rb8+ 1-0
If 28...R×b8 29.Q×b8+ Kh7 30.Q×f4
Valentina Gunina has won twice the Women's European Individual Chess Championship (2012, 2014) and three times the Russian Women's Championship (2011, 2013, 2014).
Nigel Short's blunder in a worse position.
28.Rb8+ 1-0
If 28...R×b8 29.Q×b8+ Kh7 30.Q×f4
Valentina Gunina has won twice the Women's European Individual Chess Championship (2012, 2014) and three times the Russian Women's Championship (2011, 2013, 2014).
📕 29.Ra4!
A creative move. White is intending to fight for the center by playing d4. Otherwise, Black can gradually put more pressure on the white's d-pawn.
A creative move. White is intending to fight for the center by playing d4. Otherwise, Black can gradually put more pressure on the white's d-pawn.
📕 18.g4!
Creates a surprising impression. Black's knight will pour into good squares, but the question remains - What will they achieve there? In a sense part of it is about timing and forcing the issue. Rather than maneuver and open a file at leisure, black is obliged to do it NOW, and although the f-file and the squares f4 and h4 look scary, the h-file counts too, as might the f5 square, a less visually 'in your face' outpost, but an outpost just the same. In the game, white holds the king-side and wins on the queenside. I feel that black needed at least to put a higher premium on disruption.
Creates a surprising impression. Black's knight will pour into good squares, but the question remains - What will they achieve there? In a sense part of it is about timing and forcing the issue. Rather than maneuver and open a file at leisure, black is obliged to do it NOW, and although the f-file and the squares f4 and h4 look scary, the h-file counts too, as might the f5 square, a less visually 'in your face' outpost, but an outpost just the same. In the game, white holds the king-side and wins on the queenside. I feel that black needed at least to put a higher premium on disruption.