After 7 rds at the Candidates, it is Caruana ahead with 5 out of 7. In Rd 7, Caruana beat Aronian & Karjakin beat So. The other games were drawn. Mamedyarev is in 2nd with 4.5. So & Aronian are in last place with 2.5. In Rd 8, Caruana plays So and Mamedyarov plays Karjakin.
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December 1979 - the 8th round of the 47th USSR Championship final in Minsk. Watching the game Garry Kasparov v. Yuri Razuvaev are Tamaz Giorgadze and Yuri Balashov.
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Two World Champions: Tigran Petrosian & Nona Gaprindashvili, pictured outside the National Youth Palace in Tbilisi. Early 1960s.
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In 1926, GM Carlos Torre (1905-1978), while playing in a Chicago tourney, had a nervous breakdown after receiving 2 letters. The 1st one said that his chess teaching post at a Mexican university was no longer available. The next letter was that his fiancee married someone else.
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🔹 Richard Réti
🔹 Chess Grandmaster and Composer
♦️ Richard Réti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess.
🔸 Full name: Richard Réti
Country: Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
🔸 Born: 28 May 1889
Bösing, Austria-Hungary
(now Pezinok, Slovakia)
🔸 Died: 6 June 1929 (aged 40)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
♦️ Richard Réti was born in 1889 in Pezinok, Slovakia which at the time was in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary.
♦️ Réti won 1st prize in the strong Gothenburg (1920) tournament. He confirmed his status as one of the top players in the world during the early 20th century by winning Teplitz-Schönau 1922.(TS) He came in 2nd at Maehrisch-Ostrau (1923) and Vienna (1923). Réti also won the Dr. Körner tournament (Hakoah, Vienna) in 1928.
♦️ In 1925 Réti set a world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously. He won 21, drew six, and lost two. His writings have become classics of chess literature. Modern Ideas in Chess (1923) and Masters of the Chess Board (1933) are studied today.
♦️ He worked to found hypermodernism, along with Aron Nimzowitsch and Savielly Tartakower. The Réti Opening (1.♘f3 d5 2.c4) has become a staple of grandmaster play. With this opening system, Réti famously defeated then reigning world champion Capablanca in Reti vs Capablanca, 1924 in New York (1924), the Cuban's first loss in eight years and first as world champion. Réti authored two books, Modern Ideas In Chess in 1923 and Masters Of The Chess Board, published posthumously in 1933.
♦️ A memorable and informative game by Reti which known "Reti When You Are" in chessgames.com site. He has won by bishop sacrificing in "bishops of opposite colour endgame".👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Richard Reti vs Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky
▪️ Moscow (1925), Moscow URS, rd 12, Nov-25
▪️ English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. King's Knight Variation (A15)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Chess Grandmaster and Composer
♦️ Richard Réti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess.
🔸 Full name: Richard Réti
Country: Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
🔸 Born: 28 May 1889
Bösing, Austria-Hungary
(now Pezinok, Slovakia)
🔸 Died: 6 June 1929 (aged 40)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
♦️ Richard Réti was born in 1889 in Pezinok, Slovakia which at the time was in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary.
♦️ Réti won 1st prize in the strong Gothenburg (1920) tournament. He confirmed his status as one of the top players in the world during the early 20th century by winning Teplitz-Schönau 1922.(TS) He came in 2nd at Maehrisch-Ostrau (1923) and Vienna (1923). Réti also won the Dr. Körner tournament (Hakoah, Vienna) in 1928.
♦️ In 1925 Réti set a world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously. He won 21, drew six, and lost two. His writings have become classics of chess literature. Modern Ideas in Chess (1923) and Masters of the Chess Board (1933) are studied today.
♦️ He worked to found hypermodernism, along with Aron Nimzowitsch and Savielly Tartakower. The Réti Opening (1.♘f3 d5 2.c4) has become a staple of grandmaster play. With this opening system, Réti famously defeated then reigning world champion Capablanca in Reti vs Capablanca, 1924 in New York (1924), the Cuban's first loss in eight years and first as world champion. Réti authored two books, Modern Ideas In Chess in 1923 and Masters Of The Chess Board, published posthumously in 1933.
♦️ A memorable and informative game by Reti which known "Reti When You Are" in chessgames.com site. He has won by bishop sacrificing in "bishops of opposite colour endgame".👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Richard Reti vs Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky
▪️ Moscow (1925), Moscow URS, rd 12, Nov-25
▪️ English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. King's Knight Variation (A15)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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📘 25.R×g6!
White sacrifices a bishop and a rook to obtain a draw.
25...a×b3 26.R×g7+ K×g7 27.Qe5+ Kg6
(27...f6 28.Qe7+ Rf7 29.Rh7+ perpetual check.)
28.Rh6+ Kg5 29.Rh5+ K×h5 30.Q×f5+ Kh6 31.Qf6+ Kh7 32.Qf5+ Kh8 33.Qh5+ Kg8 34.Qg5+ Kh7 35.Qh5+ =
White sacrifices a bishop and a rook to obtain a draw.
25...a×b3 26.R×g7+ K×g7 27.Qe5+ Kg6
(27...f6 28.Qe7+ Rf7 29.Rh7+ perpetual check.)
28.Rh6+ Kg5 29.Rh5+ K×h5 30.Q×f5+ Kh6 31.Qf6+ Kh7 32.Qf5+ Kh8 33.Qh5+ Kg8 34.Qg5+ Kh7 35.Qh5+ =
📘 26.Qd1!?
Transferring the queen to a more desirable location and also preparing g3-g4.
26...Kh8 27.g4 g6 28.Rg1=
Transferring the queen to a more desirable location and also preparing g3-g4.
26...Kh8 27.g4 g6 28.Rg1=
📘 36.N×g5!
Parham's finishing sacrifice. Maghsoodloo won Iranian chess championship in 2017 with 9/11.
36...Nd6
(36...h×g5 37.Be4)
37.Bd5 Rf6 38.Ne4+ Kh7 39.Q×f5+ R×f5 40.N×d6 B×d6 41.Be4 +-
Parham's finishing sacrifice. Maghsoodloo won Iranian chess championship in 2017 with 9/11.
36...Nd6
(36...h×g5 37.Be4)
37.Bd5 Rf6 38.Ne4+ Kh7 39.Q×f5+ R×f5 40.N×d6 B×d6 41.Be4 +-