📕 32...b4!!
An excellent pawn sacrifice to clear the way for the light-squared bishop to enter the fray. 33.axb4 Ba4 intending Bc2-e4. In the game, White made a mistake: 34.Ra1?(34.Rc1-/+) 34...Bc2 35.Bg3 Be4+ 36.Kf2 h5!-+.

⚪️#367 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kostic,B
🔸Capablanca,J
🔸Havana, 1919

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 367

B: c4 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%

C: Nf1 – 2
👍👍👍👍👍 33%

A: Nh2 – 1
👍👍 17%

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⚫️#368 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Portisch,L
🔸Kramnik,V
🔸Biel, 1993

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 368

B: Kh7 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

C: a5 – 3
👍👍👍 27%

A: g5 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

another interesting photo. A small town in Kazakhstan Pavlodar in 1987. Semifinal of the USSR. But what does a boy in short pants (left) do in an adult male company?

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That 13-year-old boy you can see on the left wearing shorts and thick glasses had earned himself the right to play in the semifinals of the USSR championship, the youngest participant ever: GM Gata Kamsky


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Ulf Andersson, photographed at the London (Phillips & Drew) tournament, April 1982.

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In 1960 Bobby Fischer gave a simultaneous exhibition at Rikers Island prison. He defeated all 20 prisoners while 2,400 inmates watched the exhibition and the prison band played.

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Reshevsky vs Korchnoi, 5th match-game, Amsterdam Candidates 1968.

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Lajos Portisch (Hungary) v. Leonid Stein (USSR), Amsterdam IBM Tournament, 1969.

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A rare two-minute on-camera interview with Anatoly Karpov after being awarded the world title by FIDE in early April 1975.

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✴️ #Kotov_Quotes_002

🔸 Alexander Kotov
🔸Soviet Grandmaster and Author

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✴️ #About_Kotov

🔸 Alexander Kotov
🔸Soviet Grandmaster and Author

♦️ Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet chess champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific writer on the subject of chess.

🔸 Full name: Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov
🔸 Country: Soviet Union
🔸 Born: 12 August 1913
Tula, Russian Empire
🔸 Died: 8 January 1981 (aged 67)
Moscow, Soviet Union
🔸 Title: Grandmaster
🔸 Peak rating: 2510 (July 1971)

♦️ Alexander Kotov was born in Tula. He won the Moscow Championship in 1941 and was jointly with David Bronstein USSR Champion in 1948. He achieved the GM title in 1950, having qualified for the Budapest Candidates (1950), in which he finished sixth. Kotov again qualified, in grand style with a victory in the Stockholm Interzonal (1952), where his 16.5/20 score was 3 points clear of second place. His Zurich Candidates (1953) appearance was not as successful: he only managed to finish eighth. Kotov won at Venice 1950, ahead of Vasily Smyslov.

♦️Today, Kotov is probably best remembered as an author; his book Think Like A Grandmaster is one of the best-selling chess books of all time. He passed away in Moscow in 1981.

♦️A memorable game by Kotov which known "Kotov Arms" in chessgames.com site!! 👇🏼
▪️ Alexander Kotov vs Ratmir Kholmov
▪️ URS (1971)
▪️ Queen's Indian Defense: Spassky System (E14)

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🔸 Alexander Kotov - Ratmir Kholmov, URS (1971)
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