At the 1982 Women's Olympiad in Lucerne; the 4th-round clash between China and the USSR. Board 1: Liu Shilan v. Nana Alexandria 0-1 Board 2: Nona Gaprindashvili v. Wu Mingqian 1-0 Board 3: An Yangfeng v. Nana Ioselani ½-½
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▪️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
▪️ French Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French chess grandmaster. He was World Junior Champion in 2009 and is a three-time French Champion. He is the No. 1 ranked French player as of October 2017.
🔸 Country: France
🔸 Born: 21 October 1990 (age 28)
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2005)
🔸 FIDE rating: 2789 (March 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2819 (August 2016)
🔸 Ranking: No. 5 (January 2018)
🔸 Peak ranking: No. 2 (August 2016)
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside of Paris. A genuine prodigy, he became the then second-youngest grandmaster in the world in 2005, at the age of 14 years 4 months (Magnus Carlsen was the youngest at that time).
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave came =2nd (6th on count back) with 8/11 and a 2750 TPR at the 9th European Individual Championships (2007), half point behind Tiviakov. He came =5th at the European Individual Championship (2008) with 7/9, a point behind winner Jan Werle, and half a point behind 2-4th Viktor Laznicka, Nigel Short and Michael Adams.
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave played first reserve for France at the 37th Chess Olympiad (2006) in Turin, scoring 6/10 (+3 =6 -1). At the 38th Olympiad (2008) in Dresden, he played 2nd board scoring 6.5/11. Playing top board at the 39th Chess Olympiad (2010) in Khantiy-Mansiysk, he scored 5/11. He played top board for France in the Chess Olympiad (2012), scoring 6.5/10 and in the Chess Olympiad (2014), this time scoring 6/10.
♦️ He won the Category 22 Sinquefield Cup (2017) super-tournament ahead of the world champion and eight other elite grandmasters.
💢 A memorable game by Vachier👇🏼
🔸 David Navara vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
🔸 Bundesliga (2017/18), Schwegenheim GER, rd 11, Mar-10
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Russian. Byrne (Simagin) Variation (D97)
💢 Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ French Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French chess grandmaster. He was World Junior Champion in 2009 and is a three-time French Champion. He is the No. 1 ranked French player as of October 2017.
🔸 Country: France
🔸 Born: 21 October 1990 (age 28)
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2005)
🔸 FIDE rating: 2789 (March 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2819 (August 2016)
🔸 Ranking: No. 5 (January 2018)
🔸 Peak ranking: No. 2 (August 2016)
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside of Paris. A genuine prodigy, he became the then second-youngest grandmaster in the world in 2005, at the age of 14 years 4 months (Magnus Carlsen was the youngest at that time).
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave came =2nd (6th on count back) with 8/11 and a 2750 TPR at the 9th European Individual Championships (2007), half point behind Tiviakov. He came =5th at the European Individual Championship (2008) with 7/9, a point behind winner Jan Werle, and half a point behind 2-4th Viktor Laznicka, Nigel Short and Michael Adams.
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave played first reserve for France at the 37th Chess Olympiad (2006) in Turin, scoring 6/10 (+3 =6 -1). At the 38th Olympiad (2008) in Dresden, he played 2nd board scoring 6.5/11. Playing top board at the 39th Chess Olympiad (2010) in Khantiy-Mansiysk, he scored 5/11. He played top board for France in the Chess Olympiad (2012), scoring 6.5/10 and in the Chess Olympiad (2014), this time scoring 6/10.
♦️ He won the Category 22 Sinquefield Cup (2017) super-tournament ahead of the world champion and eight other elite grandmasters.
💢 A memorable game by Vachier👇🏼
🔸 David Navara vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
🔸 Bundesliga (2017/18), Schwegenheim GER, rd 11, Mar-10
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Russian. Byrne (Simagin) Variation (D97)
💢 Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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📘 30...Bf4??
Black should simply have continued with 30...Nd6. Now, White has a winning intermediate move.
31.R×g8 R×g8 32.Nf6! Rc8
(32...Q×f6 33.Qe4+--->Qb7#)
33.Q×c4 +-
Black should simply have continued with 30...Nd6. Now, White has a winning intermediate move.
31.R×g8 R×g8 32.Nf6! Rc8
(32...Q×f6 33.Qe4+--->Qb7#)
33.Q×c4 +-
📘 34.Ra5
White is completely lost. He tries his last chance, but...
34...Q×a5!
Matlakov has calculated to the end!
35.Re7 Rd1+ 36.Kh2 Qe5+ 37.R×e5 N×e5 -+
White is completely lost. He tries his last chance, but...
34...Q×a5!
Matlakov has calculated to the end!
35.Re7 Rd1+ 36.Kh2 Qe5+ 37.R×e5 N×e5 -+