Congrats to the American contingent Lenderman Aleksandr, Moradiabadi Elshan, Friedel Joshua sweeping the European Fischer Random Cup at #ReykjavikOpen 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Yesterday, March 9th is the 75 birthday of the legendary American chess player and great champion Robert James Fischer.
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He was the youngest US junior champion (13), youngest US chess champion ever (14), the youngest GM up to that time (15 years, 6 months, 1 day), and the youngest Candidate for the World Championship ever (15).
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Such a beautiful photo from 1966 World Chess Olympiad in Havana.
Rivals and Friends, two chess legends: Robert Fischer and Mikhail Tal.
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Rivals and Friends, two chess legends: Robert Fischer and Mikhail Tal.
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Bobby Fischer (born 75 years ago) in play against Friðrik Ólafsson, in the 4th round of the great international tournament at Bled, Yugoslavia, 8th September 1961.
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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
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
💢 Title: Grandmaster (1980)
💢 World Champion: 1985–93 (undisputed)
1993–2000 (classical)
💢 FIDE rating: 2812 (March 2018) [inactive]
💢 Peak ratin:g 2851 (July 1999, January 2000)
💢 Peak ranking No. 1 (January 1984)
💢 Website: http://www.kasparov.com/
♦️ Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987 - Seville, Spain
In 1987, the candidates cycle format was changed for the first time since 1965. A Candidates Tournament was played involving twelve qualifiers from three interzonals, plus four seeds. The top four qualifiers from this tournament advanced to a series of candidates matches. The winner of this 4-man knockout played a match against Anatoly Karpov who was seeded directly into the candidates finals (!) for the privilege of playing a World Championship match against Kasparov in 1987.
After Karpov handily defeated Andrei Sokolov 7½-3½ in the candidates finals, the stage was set for the fourth confrontation between Karpov and Kasparov, this time to be held in Seville, Spain.
The match took place from October 12 to December 18, 1987. The match was tied going into the 23rd game, when Karpov achieved a fine victory from the English Opening, making the match score 12-11 in Karpov's favor. Kasparov, needing a win in the final round to retain his title, managed to do exactly that in 24th game, a feat which had not been accomplished since Lasker vs Schlechter in 1910.
With a tie score of 12-12, Garry Kasparov retained the World Championship title.
♦️ A memorable game by Kasparov 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov
🔸 Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1987), Seville ESP, rd 24, Dec-18
🔸 English Opening: Agincourt Defense. Catalan Defense (A13)
♦️ This game known "Crisis in Seville" in chessgames.com site and Kasparov showed it one of his four best games in his website!!
Review and download full annotated PGN file by Kasparov👇🏼👇🏼
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◼️ 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
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
💢 Title: Grandmaster (1980)
💢 World Champion: 1985–93 (undisputed)
1993–2000 (classical)
💢 FIDE rating: 2812 (March 2018) [inactive]
💢 Peak ratin:g 2851 (July 1999, January 2000)
💢 Peak ranking No. 1 (January 1984)
💢 Website: http://www.kasparov.com/
♦️ Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987 - Seville, Spain
In 1987, the candidates cycle format was changed for the first time since 1965. A Candidates Tournament was played involving twelve qualifiers from three interzonals, plus four seeds. The top four qualifiers from this tournament advanced to a series of candidates matches. The winner of this 4-man knockout played a match against Anatoly Karpov who was seeded directly into the candidates finals (!) for the privilege of playing a World Championship match against Kasparov in 1987.
After Karpov handily defeated Andrei Sokolov 7½-3½ in the candidates finals, the stage was set for the fourth confrontation between Karpov and Kasparov, this time to be held in Seville, Spain.
The match took place from October 12 to December 18, 1987. The match was tied going into the 23rd game, when Karpov achieved a fine victory from the English Opening, making the match score 12-11 in Karpov's favor. Kasparov, needing a win in the final round to retain his title, managed to do exactly that in 24th game, a feat which had not been accomplished since Lasker vs Schlechter in 1910.
With a tie score of 12-12, Garry Kasparov retained the World Championship title.
♦️ A memorable game by Kasparov 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov
🔸 Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1987), Seville ESP, rd 24, Dec-18
🔸 English Opening: Agincourt Defense. Catalan Defense (A13)
♦️ This game known "Crisis in Seville" in chessgames.com site and Kasparov showed it one of his four best games in his website!!
Review and download full annotated PGN file by Kasparov👇🏼👇🏼
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