Mr & Mrs Najdorf being greeted on their arrival at Amsterdam Centraal station, 4th November 1950.
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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
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"The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, 2001.
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🔵 #about_Timman
🔹 Jan Timman
🔹 Dutch chess Grandmaster
♦️ Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West".
▪️ Full name: Jan Hendrik Timman
▪️ Country: Netherlands
▪️ Born: 14 December 1951 (age 66)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1974)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2555 (June 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2680 (January 1990)
♦️Timman likes to challenge opponents directly in the areas of their strengths. Yasser Seirawan describes a game where Timman had an over-the-board inspiration to opt for a complicated game—the kind that Timman knew Seirawan really enjoyed—in spite of having prepared an equalizing variation beforehand. Timman's fearlessness has caused him to lose a lot of games, but also makes him a feared competitor because nobody likes to lose from their favourite positions. Raymond Keene described Timman's playing style as that of "a fighter, in the mould of Emanuel Lasker".
He has always adopted a wide and varied opening repertoire, playing an array of different systems as both White and Black. When he first reached the world class level in the 1970s, this was relatively unusual, with most elite grandmasters deploying a more narrowly focused range of openings, but it is now the norm.
♦️ A memorable game by Timman👇🏼
🔘 Jan Timman vs Nigel Short
🔘 Interpolis 14th (1990), Tilburg NED, rd 14, Sep-24
🔘 Dutch Defense: Classical. Stonewall Variation Botvinnik Variation (A93)
Timman is a Dutch Grandmaster and Nigel Short has played Dutch opening against he ....
Now see....😃😃😄😄😇😇
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Jan Timman
🔹 Dutch chess Grandmaster
♦️ Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West".
▪️ Full name: Jan Hendrik Timman
▪️ Country: Netherlands
▪️ Born: 14 December 1951 (age 66)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1974)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2555 (June 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2680 (January 1990)
♦️Timman likes to challenge opponents directly in the areas of their strengths. Yasser Seirawan describes a game where Timman had an over-the-board inspiration to opt for a complicated game—the kind that Timman knew Seirawan really enjoyed—in spite of having prepared an equalizing variation beforehand. Timman's fearlessness has caused him to lose a lot of games, but also makes him a feared competitor because nobody likes to lose from their favourite positions. Raymond Keene described Timman's playing style as that of "a fighter, in the mould of Emanuel Lasker".
He has always adopted a wide and varied opening repertoire, playing an array of different systems as both White and Black. When he first reached the world class level in the 1970s, this was relatively unusual, with most elite grandmasters deploying a more narrowly focused range of openings, but it is now the norm.
♦️ A memorable game by Timman👇🏼
🔘 Jan Timman vs Nigel Short
🔘 Interpolis 14th (1990), Tilburg NED, rd 14, Sep-24
🔘 Dutch Defense: Classical. Stonewall Variation Botvinnik Variation (A93)
Timman is a Dutch Grandmaster and Nigel Short has played Dutch opening against he ....
Now see....😃😃😄😄😇😇
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Altibox Norway Chess 2018
🔹 Round 6 , American GM Wesley So beats World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen for the first time!!
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🔹 Round 6 , American GM Wesley So beats World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen for the first time!!
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31. Nh6+
Nakamura had a big advantage but underestimated his own position. he could have obtained a clear advantage after:
31. Rce1! Qh5 32. Nd6
A)32...Red8 33.Qf7+ Kh7 34. e7 Rxd6 35. e8=Q Rxe8 36. Rxe8 Rb6 37. Qg8+ Kh6 38.Re3 +-
B)32... Re7 33. Nc8 Rxd7 34. exd7 +-
31...gxh6 32. Qf7+ Kh8 33. Qxf6+ Kh7 34. Qf7+ Kh8 35. Qf6+ Kh7 36. Qf7+ Kh8 37. Qf6+ 1/2-1/2
Nakamura had a big advantage but underestimated his own position. he could have obtained a clear advantage after:
31. Rce1! Qh5 32. Nd6
A)32...Red8 33.Qf7+ Kh7 34. e7 Rxd6 35. e8=Q Rxe8 36. Rxe8 Rb6 37. Qg8+ Kh6 38.Re3 +-
B)32... Re7 33. Nc8 Rxd7 34. exd7 +-
31...gxh6 32. Qf7+ Kh8 33. Qxf6+ Kh7 34. Qf7+ Kh8 35. Qf6+ Kh7 36. Qf7+ Kh8 37. Qf6+ 1/2-1/2
13. Rh3!?
An interesting rook-lift to defend the knight on f3 and prepare to play a g–pawn push.
13...Nc5 14.B×c5 b×c5 15.g4 c4 16.B×c4 Re4 17.Qd3
An interesting rook-lift to defend the knight on f3 and prepare to play a g–pawn push.
13...Nc5 14.B×c5 b×c5 15.g4 c4 16.B×c4 Re4 17.Qd3
18.Qc4!
A multi-purpose move:
1- Preventing Black from playing Qf6.
2- Preventing annoying ...Nh4, due to White's advantage in space.
3- Clearing the d3 square for the Bishop.
18...g6 19.h3 Ng7 20.Re3 a5 21.a4
A multi-purpose move:
1- Preventing Black from playing Qf6.
2- Preventing annoying ...Nh4, due to White's advantage in space.
3- Clearing the d3 square for the Bishop.
18...g6 19.h3 Ng7 20.Re3 a5 21.a4
Magnus reached a clearly superior position and converted his advantage into a full point without much effort.
26.Rb3 Rb8 27. Ng5 Nf6 28. Rf3 h6 29. Ne4 Nxe4 30. Qxf7+ Kh8 31. Qxg6 1-0
26.Rb3 Rb8 27. Ng5 Nf6 28. Rf3 h6 29. Ne4 Nxe4 30. Qxf7+ Kh8 31. Qxg6 1-0
18...Qd5!
By offering to go into an endgame, Black emphasizes White's main problem in such positions – the weakness of the h5-pawn. After some thought, Lanka decided to give it up immediately but to keep the queens on.
19.Qe2?! Qb5?! (19...Nxh5) 20.b3 a5 21.Ne5 a4.
By offering to go into an endgame, Black emphasizes White's main problem in such positions – the weakness of the h5-pawn. After some thought, Lanka decided to give it up immediately but to keep the queens on.
19.Qe2?! Qb5?! (19...Nxh5) 20.b3 a5 21.Ne5 a4.