📕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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Women's World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili (centre), flanked by World Championship Candidates Irina Levitina (left) and Nana Alexandria (right). Photographed in Borjomi, 1974.
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🔹 Emanuel Lasker
🔹 German chess player and World Chess Champion
♦️ Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.
▪️ Full name: Emanuel Lasker
▪️ Country: Germany
▪️ Born: December 24, 1868
Berlinchen, Prussia (now Barlinek, Poland)
▪️ Died: January 11, 1941 (aged 72)
New York City, United States
▪️ World Champion: 1894–1921
♦️ Emanuel Lasker was born on December 24, 1868 at Barlinek in Poland, the son of a Jewish cantor. At the age of eleven he was sent to Berlin to study mathematics, where he lived with his brother Berthold, eight years his senior, who taught him how to play chess. According to the website Chessmetrics, Berthold was among the world's top ten players in the early 1890s. To supplement their income Emanuel Lasker played chess and card games for small stakes, especially at the Café Kaiserhof.
♦️ A memorable game by Lasker which one of Immortal games in chess world.
This game a brilliancy game and known "Pillsbury d'oh!" in chessgames.com site, also, it is known "Lasker's Immortal Rooks" game in classical chess !!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Harry Nelson Pillsbury vs Emanuel Lasker
🔸 St. Petersburg (1895/96), St. Petersburg RUE, rd 10, Jan-04
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch. Primitive Pillsbury Variation (D50)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 German chess player and World Chess Champion
♦️ Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.
▪️ Full name: Emanuel Lasker
▪️ Country: Germany
▪️ Born: December 24, 1868
Berlinchen, Prussia (now Barlinek, Poland)
▪️ Died: January 11, 1941 (aged 72)
New York City, United States
▪️ World Champion: 1894–1921
♦️ Emanuel Lasker was born on December 24, 1868 at Barlinek in Poland, the son of a Jewish cantor. At the age of eleven he was sent to Berlin to study mathematics, where he lived with his brother Berthold, eight years his senior, who taught him how to play chess. According to the website Chessmetrics, Berthold was among the world's top ten players in the early 1890s. To supplement their income Emanuel Lasker played chess and card games for small stakes, especially at the Café Kaiserhof.
♦️ A memorable game by Lasker which one of Immortal games in chess world.
This game a brilliancy game and known "Pillsbury d'oh!" in chessgames.com site, also, it is known "Lasker's Immortal Rooks" game in classical chess !!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Harry Nelson Pillsbury vs Emanuel Lasker
🔸 St. Petersburg (1895/96), St. Petersburg RUE, rd 10, Jan-04
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch. Primitive Pillsbury Variation (D50)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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📘 68...g2?
A painful blunder.
Firouzja could have won the game with 68...e3 69.K×a1 B×c6 -+.
69.K×a1 g1+ 70.Ka2 Qg8 71.Rb7 Qc8 72.Rb8 Q×c6 73.a8=Q Q×a8+ 74.R×a8 e3 75.Re8 e2 =
A painful blunder.
Firouzja could have won the game with 68...e3 69.K×a1 B×c6 -+.
69.K×a1 g1+ 70.Ka2 Qg8 71.Rb7 Qc8 72.Rb8 Q×c6 73.a8=Q Q×a8+ 74.R×a8 e3 75.Re8 e2 =
📘 39.Rc2??
White should have prevented the dangerous 39...Qe3 with the prophylactic move 39.Qc3.
39...Qe3! 40.Qa1 Nf4 41.Rc7 Rd4 42.Rf7 Qe1!+ -+
White should have prevented the dangerous 39...Qe3 with the prophylactic move 39.Qc3.
39...Qe3! 40.Qa1 Nf4 41.Rc7 Rd4 42.Rf7 Qe1!+ -+