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Moscow, 1978. Following their return from the 1978 World Junior in Graz (Austria) - Sergei Dolmatov, Artur Jussupow, Anatoly Matsukevich. Standing: Mark Dvoretsky, Yakov Neishtadt.

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Young Judit Polgar playing simultaneously (Jun 16, 2011) against the Hungarian chess kids in 1992. She beat them all.

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Soviet grandmaster Vitaly Valerevich Tseshkovsky (1944-2011). Winner of two USSR Championships - the 46th (Tbilisi, 1978) and the 53rd (Kiev, 1986). Pictured here in the 1970s.

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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Paravyan,David (2603)
⚫️Erigaisi,Arjun (2458)
🔸1-0
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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Sjugirov,Sanan (2652)
⚫️Esipenko,Andrey (2571)
🔸1-0
🔷 Garry Kasparov
🔷 Russian-Soviet chess Grandmaster

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🔷 Garry Kasparov
🔷 Russian-Soviet chess Grandmaster

♦️ Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian, and formerly Soviet, chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, who many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.

▪️ Full name: Garry Kimovich Kasparov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union Russia (since 1992) Croatia (since 2014)
▪️ Born: 13 April 1963 (age 54) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (now Baku, Azerbaijan)
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1980)
▪️ World Champion: 1985–93 (undisputed) 1993–2000 (classical)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2812 (March 2018) [inactive]
▪️ Peak rating: 2851 (July 1999, January 2000)
▪️ Peak rankin:g No. 1 (January 1984)

♦️Kasparov played in eight Olympiads. He represented the Soviet Union four times, in 1980, 1982, 1986 and 1988, and Russia four times: in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2002 playing board 1 on each occasion apart from 1980 (2nd reserve) and 1982 (2nd board). In 82 games, he scored (+50 =29 -3), for 78.7% and won a total of 19 medals, including 8 team gold medals, 5 board golds, 2 performance golds, 2 performance silvers and 2 board bronzes. Kasparov also represented the USSR once in Youth Olympiad competition at Graz in 1981, when he played board 1 for the USSR board 1, scoring 9/10 (+8 =2 -0), the team winning the gold medal.

♦️ A memorable game by Kasparov👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov
🔸 Linares (1993), Linares ESP, rd 10, Mar-09
🔸 King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E86)


♦️Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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@unitychess Karpov-Kasparov 1993.pgn
576 B
🔸 Anatoly Karpov- Garry Kasparov, Linares 1993
🔸 PGN format

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🔸International Khazar Cup 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Volkov,Sergey (2612)
⚫️Khamisi,S Jafar (2236)
🔸1-0
📘 7...b6?!
He should have played 7...0-0.
8.cxd5!
Volkov has completely exploited the opponent's wrong move order.
8...e×d5
(8...c×d5 9.Nb5 Bc5 10.b4! B×b4 11.Qa4 Be7 12.Ne5 +/=)
9.Nd4 Bb7 10.Nf5 Bf8 11.g4!
🔸International Khazar Cup 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Dvirnyy,Danyyil (2545)
⚫️Akbari Gelvardi,Mohammad (2224)
🔸0-1
📘 40.Qh2? ( better is 40.Kg2 or 40.h4)
A carelessness.
40...Nf7
Now that the e5 pawn is protected, White is ready to take the b3 pawn.
41.Qc2 B×h3 -+
Danyyil Dvirnyy has won the Italian championship three times.
🔸International Khazar Cup 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Pourramezanali,Amirreza (2525)
⚫️Sedaghati,Mehrdad (2215)
🔸1-0
📘 47...Ke6??
White intends to take the g6-pawn to win the game. therefore, the Black king should have been kept close to the f2-pawn to draw the game.
(47...Kc5!
A)48.Kh4 d5 49.Kg5 Kd4 50.K×g6 Ke4 51.Kg5 d4 52.Bc7 d3 53.Ba5 Kf3 =
B)48.Kg3 d5 49.Kf3 Kd4 50.Bd6 Kd3 51.Be7 Kd2=)
48.Kh4 d5 49.Kg5 d4 50.K×g6 h4 51.Kg5 h3 52.Kg4 Kd5 1-0
🔸International Khazar Cup 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Rostami,Rouzbeh (2208)
⚫️Darini,Pouria (2492)
🔸0-1
📘 19.Ng5?
(19.c4 or 19.Rd2)
19... Bb3! 20.Qc1
(20.a×b3 a×b3 21.Qd2 Ra1+! Mate in 3 Moves)
20...B×d1 21.B×d1 Ke7 1-0

⭐️ GM Pouria Darini was runner-up in the 2017 Iran chess champion.
⚫️#309 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Van den Doel,Erik (2528)
🔸Gurevich,Mikhail (2643)
🔸VAM Hoogeveen 1999
📕11...b5!?
An interesting idea by Gurevich to put pressure on the d5-pawn and gain more space on the queenside. 12.Bb3 (12.Bxb5 exd5 13.Nxf6+ Nxf6=/+) 12...c5!=.