Caruana Beats Aronian, Leads Before Candidates' Tournament Final Round.
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Candidates, Rd 13: Caruana beat Aronian (nice rook sacrifice) and Mamedyarov beat Grischuk. Caruana leads with 8/13, followed by Mamedyarov and Karjakin with 7.5. Final round 14 pairings for March 27: Grischuk-Caruana, Kramnik-Mamedyarov, Karjakin-Ding Liren, and Aronian-So.
Players & officials, Goglidze Memorial, Tbilisi, Aug 1983. (Source: http://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/143299 ….)
From the back:
Gufeld, ?, ?, ?
Gurgenidze, Henley, Murshed, Sturua, ?, ?.
G. Giorgaze, Oll, Foişor, Te. Giorgadze, ?, Ubilava.
Zaichik, Mnatsakanian, Adamski, Gavrikov, Kärner.
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From the back:
Gufeld, ?, ?, ?
Gurgenidze, Henley, Murshed, Sturua, ?, ?.
G. Giorgaze, Oll, Foişor, Te. Giorgadze, ?, Ubilava.
Zaichik, Mnatsakanian, Adamski, Gavrikov, Kärner.
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Another photo from the tournament: Davit Gurgenidze, Eduard Gufeld, Jesus Jesus Nogueiras, Ron Henley.
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Dubna, USSR, November 1983. Women's Candidates' Semi-final - the 1st match-game between Nana Alexandria and Irina Levitina.
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Boris Spassky and Iivo Nei, his Estonian second, play some tennis before resuming and resigning the fateful third game of his match with Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, July 1972.
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💢 Max Euwe
💢 Dutch Mathematician and Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Machgielis "Max" Euwe, PhD was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion. Euwe served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.
🔹 Full name: Machgielis Euwe
🔹 Country: Netherlands
🔹 Born: May 20, 1901
Amsterdam, Netherlands
🔹 Died: November 26, 1981 (aged 80)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1950)
🔹 World Champion: 1935–37
🔹 Peak rating: 2530 (May 1974)
♦️ In 1957, while visiting the United States to study computer technology, Euwe played two unofficial chess games in New York against Bobby Fischer, winning one and drawing the second. A couple of years later, he became director of The Netherlands Automatic Data Processing Research Centre in 1959 and from 1961 to 1963, chairman of a committee set up by Euratom to examine the feasibility of programming computers to play chess. In 1964, he was appointed to a chair in an automatic information processing in Rotterdam University and, following that, at Tilburg University. He retired as professor at Tilburg in 1971.
♦️ A memorable game by Euwe which known "The Royal Tour" in chessgames.com👇🏼
▪️ Laszlo Szabo vs Max Euwe
▪️ Groningen (1946), Groningen NED, rd 6, Aug-20
▪️ Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense. Alekhine System (D28)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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💢 Dutch Mathematician and Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Machgielis "Max" Euwe, PhD was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion. Euwe served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.
🔹 Full name: Machgielis Euwe
🔹 Country: Netherlands
🔹 Born: May 20, 1901
Amsterdam, Netherlands
🔹 Died: November 26, 1981 (aged 80)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1950)
🔹 World Champion: 1935–37
🔹 Peak rating: 2530 (May 1974)
♦️ In 1957, while visiting the United States to study computer technology, Euwe played two unofficial chess games in New York against Bobby Fischer, winning one and drawing the second. A couple of years later, he became director of The Netherlands Automatic Data Processing Research Centre in 1959 and from 1961 to 1963, chairman of a committee set up by Euratom to examine the feasibility of programming computers to play chess. In 1964, he was appointed to a chair in an automatic information processing in Rotterdam University and, following that, at Tilburg University. He retired as professor at Tilburg in 1971.
♦️ A memorable game by Euwe which known "The Royal Tour" in chessgames.com👇🏼
▪️ Laszlo Szabo vs Max Euwe
▪️ Groningen (1946), Groningen NED, rd 6, Aug-20
▪️ Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense. Alekhine System (D28)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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Congrats to American Fabiano Caruana for winning the Candidates in Berlin and is now the challenger to Magnus Carlsen for the title of World Chess Champion.