🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔹 Russian-Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Electrical Engineer
♦️ Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
▪️ Full name: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: August 17, 1911
Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Repino, Russia)
▪️ Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83)
Moscow, Russia
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ World Champion: 1948–1957 // 1958–1960 // 1961–1963
▪️ Peak rating: 2660 (January 1971)
♦️ Reuben Fine, writing in 1976, observed that Botvinnik was at or near the top of the chess world for thirty years—from 1933, when he drew a match against Flohr, to 1963, when he lost the world championship for the final time, to Petrosian—"a feat equaled historically only by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz".
♦️ A memorable game by Botvinnik👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Alexander Alekhine
🔸 AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 7, Nov-15
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Russian-Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Electrical Engineer
♦️ Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
▪️ Full name: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: August 17, 1911
Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Repino, Russia)
▪️ Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83)
Moscow, Russia
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ World Champion: 1948–1957 // 1958–1960 // 1961–1963
▪️ Peak rating: 2660 (January 1971)
♦️ Reuben Fine, writing in 1976, observed that Botvinnik was at or near the top of the chess world for thirty years—from 1933, when he drew a match against Flohr, to 1963, when he lost the world championship for the final time, to Petrosian—"a feat equaled historically only by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz".
♦️ A memorable game by Botvinnik👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Alexander Alekhine
🔸 AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 7, Nov-15
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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Chess is not an Olympic sport, but chess tourneys were held in conjunction with the Olympic games, starting at Paris, 1900. Lasker won that 17-player event. Two tournaments were held at St Louis, 1904. Marshall and Mlotkowski won those events. Alekhine won at Stockholm 1912.
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26th USSR Championship, Tbilisi, Feb 1959. Runner-up Mikhail Tal receives his award from Georgian communist party official Zinaida Kvachadze. In the background are Petrosian (the winner of the event), Keres, Kholmov, Vasiukov...
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Winners of the 1982 Womens' Chess Olympiad in Lucerne- the USSR. Left to right: Maia Chiburdanidze, Nana Alexandria, Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Ioselani - all from the Georgian SSR.
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James Tarjan took a 30 year break from chess. In 1984 he gave it up to become a librarian. He returned in 2014 & defeated Kramnik in 2017.
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🔸 Kiril Georgiev
🔸BulgarianChess Grandmaster
♦️ Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and six-time national champion. Kiril Georgiev first caught the eye of the chess world in 1983, when he became the World Junior Champion with an unusually strong score of 11½ out of 13.
▪️ Country: Bulgaria
▪️ Born: 28 November 1965 (age 52)
Petrich, Bulgaria
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ FIDE rating: 2596 (March 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2695 (July 2001)
♦️Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev was born in Petrich. He was awarded the IM title in 1983 and the GM title in 1985.
Georgiev has participated in every Olympiad from 1984 to 2012, usually on board 1 or 2. Apart from the 2002 Olympiad, where he was top board for Macedonia, he has played for Bulgaria.
He has also participated in all the biennial European Team Championships since 1983, barring 1997, 2001 and 2009, winning two individual bronze medals (in 1983 and 2003) and one individual gold medal (in 1999 when Bulgaria came 4th, its best result in the 3 decades since 1983.
♦️ In 2009, Georgiev broke Zsuzsa Polgar 's 4 year old world record for the most simultaneous chess games played: 360 games in just over 14 hours with a +280 =74 -6 (88%) result. However, that record lasted only a few months before it was broken in turn by Morteza Mahjoob from Iran.
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🔸BulgarianChess Grandmaster
♦️ Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and six-time national champion. Kiril Georgiev first caught the eye of the chess world in 1983, when he became the World Junior Champion with an unusually strong score of 11½ out of 13.
▪️ Country: Bulgaria
▪️ Born: 28 November 1965 (age 52)
Petrich, Bulgaria
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ FIDE rating: 2596 (March 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2695 (July 2001)
♦️Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev was born in Petrich. He was awarded the IM title in 1983 and the GM title in 1985.
Georgiev has participated in every Olympiad from 1984 to 2012, usually on board 1 or 2. Apart from the 2002 Olympiad, where he was top board for Macedonia, he has played for Bulgaria.
He has also participated in all the biennial European Team Championships since 1983, barring 1997, 2001 and 2009, winning two individual bronze medals (in 1983 and 2003) and one individual gold medal (in 1999 when Bulgaria came 4th, its best result in the 3 decades since 1983.
♦️ In 2009, Georgiev broke Zsuzsa Polgar 's 4 year old world record for the most simultaneous chess games played: 360 games in just over 14 hours with a +280 =74 -6 (88%) result. However, that record lasted only a few months before it was broken in turn by Morteza Mahjoob from Iran.
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♦️ A memorable game by Georgiev against Alexey Shirov☝️
The position after:
22 ... Rh6?
White to move and win!!
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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The position after:
22 ... Rh6?
White to move and win!!
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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