After a great game by both players, Levon Aronian blundered a beautiful final move by Vladimir Kramnik today at the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. Tournament leader Fabiano Caruana held Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to a draw.
From the Georgian archives - Kasparov , Nana Alexandria, Artur Jussupow and Aleksandr Beliavsky. Photographed in 1988, according to the source:
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Bukhuti Gurgenidze (Georgian SSR) v. Tigran Petrosian (Moscow); I think this is most likely their encounter from the 3rd USSR People's Spartakiad (Moscow, August 1963). That game, a French Defence, was drawn in 38 moves.
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In Sep 1970, the Association for Computing Machinery hosted the 1st major chess tournament for computers, the 1st US Computer Chess Ch. in NY. The winner was CHESS 3.0 running on a CDC 6400 and written in FORTRAN by two physics students at Northwestern U in their spare time.
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A 12 year-old Nigel Short reading a copy of Soviet Weekly before taking on Karpov in a clock simul in 1977.
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First USSR v USA 1945 radio match: Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Flohr, Kotov, Bondarevsky, Lilienthal, Ragozin, Makogonov, Bronstein and Botvinnik.
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🔹 Vlastimil Hort
🔹 German Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Vlastimil Hort is a Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World Chess ...
▪️ Full name: Vlastimil Hort
▪️ Country: Germany
▪️ Born: 12 January 1944 (age 74)
Kladno, Czechoslovakia
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ FIDE rating: 2418 (March 2018)
▪️ Peak ratin: 2620 (January 1977)
♦️Vlastimil Hort was born in Kladno. He became an IM in 1962 and a GM in 1965 and went on to win the Czechoslovak Championship six times.
Hort played for Czechoslovakia in the Chess Olympiads of 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1982, 1984, and for Germany in 1988, 1990, 1992.
♦️A memorable game by Hort which known "Some Like It Hort" in chessgames.com site👇🏼
🔸 Vlastimil Hort vs Lajos Portisch
🔸 Madrid (1973), Madrid ESP, rd 4, Nov-30
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Henneberger Variation (D63)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 German Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Vlastimil Hort is a Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World Chess ...
▪️ Full name: Vlastimil Hort
▪️ Country: Germany
▪️ Born: 12 January 1944 (age 74)
Kladno, Czechoslovakia
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ FIDE rating: 2418 (March 2018)
▪️ Peak ratin: 2620 (January 1977)
♦️Vlastimil Hort was born in Kladno. He became an IM in 1962 and a GM in 1965 and went on to win the Czechoslovak Championship six times.
Hort played for Czechoslovakia in the Chess Olympiads of 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1982, 1984, and for Germany in 1988, 1990, 1992.
♦️A memorable game by Hort which known "Some Like It Hort" in chessgames.com site👇🏼
🔸 Vlastimil Hort vs Lajos Portisch
🔸 Madrid (1973), Madrid ESP, rd 4, Nov-30
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Henneberger Variation (D63)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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📘 36...Qc7??
Aronian made a blunder while he could have saved himself with 36...Rg7.
37.Ne8+! 1-0
(37...Q×e5 38.R×f8+ Bg8 39.R×g8#)
Aronian made a blunder while he could have saved himself with 36...Rg7.
37.Ne8+! 1-0
(37...Q×e5 38.R×f8+ Bg8 39.R×g8#)
📘 20.Qg3!
A miniature victory by young GM Daniil Dubov.
20...Q×c4 21.Qd6 Bb4 22.B×b4 1-0
If 22...N×b4, then 23.Rb7 +-.
A miniature victory by young GM Daniil Dubov.
20...Q×c4 21.Qd6 Bb4 22.B×b4 1-0
If 22...N×b4, then 23.Rb7 +-.