🔹 Alexei Shirov
🔹 Chess grandmaster
♦️ #Shirov_Quotes_001

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🔹 Alexei Shirov
🔹 Chess grandmaster
💢 #about_Shirov_1

♦️ Alexei Shirov is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster. He was ranked number two in the world in 1994.

▪️ Full name: Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union Latvia
Spain (1995–2011)
▪️ Born: 4 July 1972 (age 45)
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1990)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2644 (April 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2755 (January 2008)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 2 (January 1994)

♦️ IM (1989); GM (1990).
♦️Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov was born in Riga in what was then Soviet Latvia. He has a distinctive aggressive and imaginative style that has won him many admirers throughout his career. He has ranked among the world's top players since 1990. He frequently worked his way deep into the World Championship cycles, coming as close to the pinnacle of chess as winning the right to challenge Garry Kasparov for the Classical World Championship, meeting Viswanathan Anand in the final of the 2000 Knockout Tournament and playing in the final match of the World Chess Cup (2007) and playing in the 2007 Candidates. He has been officially ranked as high as number 2 in the world.
♦️ Shirov became the U16 World Champion in 1988 and was runner-up in 1990 in the World Junior Championship behind Ilya M Gurevich. He won the Spanish championship in 2002 with 8.5/9.

♦️ A memorable game by Alexey Shirov which known "Troublesome Priest" in chessgames.com site!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov vs Alexey Shirov
🔸 Linares (1998), Linares ESP, rd 10, Mar-04
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)

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♦️ Today we have selected a brilliant endgame by Shirov!! ☝️
♦️ Black to move☝️☝️

🔵 What is your idea?
I hope, you have managed to calculate all required lines !!

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♦️ For answer review the game and download annotated PGN file by GM Valeriy Aveskulov from Ukraine👇🏼

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🔹 Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov - Alexey Shirov, Linares (1998), Linares ESP
🔹 PGN format
🔹 Endgame annotated by GM Valeriy Aveskulov

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Meier Misses Opportunity vs Carlsen In Grenke.

https://goo.gl/zFELgW

GRENKE Chess Classic 2018 | Impressions round 5 | Georg Meier almost won against Magnus Carlsen.

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Grenke Classic Rd 5: 5 draws in #GRENKEChess leave the standings unchanged with 4 rounds to go, though Meier (vs. Carlsen!) and Naiditsch (vs. Bluebaum) missed huge chances to win & climb out of joint last place!

2018 Grenke Chess Classic | Round 5 Standings.

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🔹 GRENKE Chess Classic 2018- Round 5
🔹 PGN format

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Hans Berliner (1929-2017) became a master in 1949, won 5 DC championships, NY ch in 1953 (the 1st non-New Yorker to do so), won 3 Golden Knight championships, rated 2726 in corr. chess, corr. GM in 1968, & won the 5th world corr. ch. with 14/16 in 1965. He co-developed Hitech.

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The first time 13 year old Magnus Carlsen played Garry Kasparov.

Carlsen made a sensation that night when he came close to defeating the world number one and eventually drew the game.

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Sometime in 1973: Philippines First Lady Imelda playing chess with Bobby Fischer while President Marcos watching their game.

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At the 20th Olympiad, Skopje, Yugoslavia. Final group A, 14th round, 11th October 1972. The match Sweden v. Denmark. On Board 3, Axel Ornstein faces Jørn Sloth.

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A young Ulf Andersson (c. 1970?).

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Peter Leko explains a beautiful sequence that was missed in the Georg Meier v Magnus Carlsen game. https://youtu.be/i4EcOBjc_mw