⚪️#78 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Yilmaz,Mustafa (2633)
🔸Paciencia,Enrique (2335)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 78
public poll

C)c6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%
@shahrook, Nikhil, @ORA00060, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, @WataxPin, Sanjana

B)c×d6 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng

A)c×b6
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#78 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Pascua,Haridas (2435)
🔸Sirosh,Ilja (2380)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 78
public poll

A)Kf3 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
@shahrook, Nikhil, Vincent, @h_a_d_I_1169, @RichardPeng, @KingBossKrish, Sanjana

C)d4 – 4
👍👍👍👍 33%
@ORA00060, @pouyax008, @Sophia_Peng, @WataxPin

B)Rg1 – 1
👍 8%
@Kasra_Germany

👥 12 people voted so far.

🔴 Today is birthday of Lev Psakhis!!
Israeli chess grandmaster

🌺🌹💐☘️🌸🌷 Happy birthday 👏👏👏👏👏
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#Stean

🔵 Michael Stean
🔹 English chess grandmaster
🔹 Chess author
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🔵 About Michael Stean

🔹 Michael Stean
🔹 English chess grandmaster
🔹 Chess author

🔰 Michael Francis Stean is an English chess grandmaster, an author of chess books and a tax accountant.
Stean was born on 4 September 1953 in London. He learned to play chess before the age of five, developing a promising talent that led to junior honours, including the London under-14 and British under-16 titles.

There was more progress in 1971, when he placed third at a junior event in Norwich (behind Sax and Tarjan, two other young players with bright futures). By 1973, he was able to top a tournament in Canterbury (ahead of Adorjan) and speculation began to grow that England had another potential runner in the race to become the country's first grandmaster. Fellow contenders were Ray Keene, whom Stean knew from Cambridge University and Tony Miles, who ultimately took the accolade. 1973 was also the year when Stean entered the (Teesside) World Junior Chess Championship and finished third behind Miles and tournament victor Alexander Beliavsky (ahead of Larry Christiansen). Curiously, both Stean and Miles defeated Beliavsky, but couldn't match his ruthlessness in dispatching inferior opposition.

Domestically, he was a joint winner of the British Chess Championship in 1974, but lost the play-off to George Botterill. In the first of his five Chess Olympiads at Nice in 1974, he won the prize for best game of the Olympiad, for his effort against Walter Browne. His next Olympiad was even more of a success; individual gold and team bronze medals at Haifa 1976. His performances in these events never resulted in a score of less than 50%.

🔘 Full name: Michael Francis Stean
🔘 Country: England
🔘 Born: 4 September 1953 (age 65)
🔺 London, England
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1977)
🔘 FIDE rating: Not active
🔘 Peak rating: 2540 (January 1979)

♦️ A memorable game by Stean: 👇
🔸 Michael Francis Stean vs Gyula Sax
🔸 Las Palmas (1978), Las Palmas ESP, rd 10, May-??
🔸 Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan. Sveshnikov Variation (B33)

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🔸 Michael Francis Stean - Gyula Sax, Las Palmas 1978
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🔸 Michael Francis Stean - Gyula Sax, Las Palmas 1978
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Lev Psakhis 1983, twice USSR Champion, he shared the title with Aleksandr Beliavsky 1980 and Garry Kasparov 1981, on both occasions defeating his co-winners in their individual encounters

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Lev Borisovich is 60 years old today. Congratulations!
http://bit.ly/2E6xCsL

Incidentally, you can read about his visit to Scotland in 1984 (part of a programme of events to mark the centenary of the Scottish Chess Association) here:
https://goo.gl/FSzwpo

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings."

🔸 Paul Keres

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Hans Richter vs Marcel Duchamp, Live Chess Match (the man in the tree is the French-American artist Marcel Duchamp), 1956

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2018 Chinese Chess League Division A R19-R22
http://bit.ly/2E5UkRH

🔹 TCh-CHN 2018-R21
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🏁✅ Relive the tiebreaks of the 2018 World Chess Championship as Magnus Carlsen regains his World No.1 title against Fabiano Caruana.
#c24live #CarlsenCaruana

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