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Footage from the San Remo 1930 tournament. You'll recognize Alekhine, Maróczy, Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein, Spielmann, Vidmar, Yates and others.
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♦️ Unity Chess Club New Office Renovations
♦️ Grand Opening
🅾️ Unity Open Grand Prix Tournament
🅾️ US Chess Grand Prix Points: 50
🔴 New format and new prizes !!! 🔴
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
🗓 Saturday, May 19th
🕰🕰 TIME CONTROL: G/60; +5
....................................................
✅ Prizes: 👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Open
🔘 1st: $1000
🔘 2nd: $500
🔘 3rd: $300
🔘 4th: $200
🔹 1st under 2000: $100
🔹 1st under 1800: $100
🔹 Reserve (1200-1600)
🔘 1st: Laptop 🔘 2nd: Tablet 🔘 3rd: Nook
🔹 Booster (under 1200)
🔘 1st Laptop 🔘 2nd: Tablet 🔘 3rd: Nook
🔹 Best under 600: $100 in book prizes
....................................................
☝️♦️ All prizes are 100% guaranteed! ♦️☝️
....................................................
💜💜💜💜💜💜
Free Pizza and Drinks provided for lunch for our Inaugural Unity Open Grand Prix!
💜💜💜💜💜💜
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
USCF May Rating Supplement or current rating will be used, whichever is higher.
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
✅ Byes:👇🏼👇🏼
Half point byes OK all rounds, limit 2, must commit before round 2.
.........................................
♻️ No playing up allowed for any section
✅ Entry fee:👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 $50 by May 11th
🔸 $60 by May 18th
🔸 $70 at the site
♦️ The entry for GMs, WGMs, IMs, WIMs, FMs, WFMs would be free.
✅ Rounds Schedule:👇🏼👇🏼
💢 Round 1: 9-11 am
💢 Round 2: 11:30-1:30 pm
❌ Lunch break from 1:30-2:30 pm
💢 Round 3: 2:30-4:30 pm
💢 Round 4: 5-7 pm
✅ Check in and Registration
⭕️ 8:15-8:45 am
☎️ Tell: 602 - 326 - 2727
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📕 27.Re3!
There is tremendous positional compensation for White's sacrifice - great minor pieces, lack of scope for the rooks, a powerful passed pawn and so on. However, even more important is that now that the knight has left f6, a very strong attack will virtually play itself.
There is tremendous positional compensation for White's sacrifice - great minor pieces, lack of scope for the rooks, a powerful passed pawn and so on. However, even more important is that now that the knight has left f6, a very strong attack will virtually play itself.
📕 19...Bf8!
Blockade secure Black turns his attention to some desirable minor piece exchanges and emerges with his first choice of remaining pieces - Blockading knight against a bishop unable to challenge the blockade. 20.Bb2 Nxe4 21.Bxe4 Nd6 22.Bg2 Bg7 23.h4 e4! 24.Bxg7 Kxg7.
Blockade secure Black turns his attention to some desirable minor piece exchanges and emerges with his first choice of remaining pieces - Blockading knight against a bishop unable to challenge the blockade. 20.Bb2 Nxe4 21.Bxe4 Nd6 22.Bg2 Bg7 23.h4 e4! 24.Bxg7 Kxg7.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 337
A: f5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
B: a5 – 1
👍 14%
C: Bg4 – 1
👍 14%
👥 7 people voted so far.
A: f5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
B: a5 – 1
👍 14%
C: Bg4 – 1
👍 14%
👥 7 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 338
A: Rf2 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
C: g4 – 2
👍👍 22%
B: Kf2 – 1
👍 11%
👥 9 people voted so far.
A: Rf2 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
C: g4 – 2
👍👍 22%
B: Kf2 – 1
👍 11%
👥 9 people voted so far.
At the 46th USSR-ch, Tbilisi 1978. Left to right: Garry Kasparov, Gennady Timoshchenko (I think!), Aleksandr Beliavsky, Tamasz Giorgadze, Lev Polugaevsky.
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Vladimir Savon in play at the traditional Hoogovens tournament, Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands), January 1972.
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Dr Alexey Root (1965- ) was U.S. Women's Champion in 1989 & is a Woman IM. She received a PhD from UCLA. Her dissertation was on how 1960s US history presentation affected the students perception of that decade. She has written 6 books on the relationship of chess & education.
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