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💢 Moscow 1925
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⚛️ Chess History - Tournaments
💢 Moscow 1925
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1925
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@unitychess
☑️ Chess History - Tournaments
💢 Moscow 1925
💢 10 November – 09 December
CHAMPION: Efim Bogoljubov, 15.5/20 (+13 -2 =5)
🔸 This international super-tournament, organised by Nikolai Krylenko, was held in Moscow, the Soviet Union, from 10 November to 9 December 1925. It was the world's first state-sponsored chess tournament. There were eleven foreign stars and ten Soviet masters. World champion José Raúl Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker both participated. A race between them, as in the New York 1924 chess tournament, was expected before the tournament, but Efim Bogoljubow won a sensational victory. Lasker finished 1½ points behind Bogoljubow and just ahead of Capablanca.
🔸 The event aroused great interest among the Soviet citizens. Hundreds of spectators followed the games in Hotel Metropol and ten of thousands watched demonstration boards downtown. Bogoljubow's win was regarded as a Soviet victory; however, shortly after this in 1926, like Alexander Alekhine he left the Soviet Union and became a German citizen. Later Bogoljubow and Alekhine were called "renegades" in the USSR.
The film Chess Fever used a number of scenes from the tournament, and even featured Capablanca playing himself. The Cuban-Soviet film Capablanca has its main plot during the tournament.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Moscow 1925 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Moscow 1925 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1925
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💢 Moscow 1925
💢 10 November – 09 December
CHAMPION: Efim Bogoljubov, 15.5/20 (+13 -2 =5)
🔸 This international super-tournament, organised by Nikolai Krylenko, was held in Moscow, the Soviet Union, from 10 November to 9 December 1925. It was the world's first state-sponsored chess tournament. There were eleven foreign stars and ten Soviet masters. World champion José Raúl Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker both participated. A race between them, as in the New York 1924 chess tournament, was expected before the tournament, but Efim Bogoljubow won a sensational victory. Lasker finished 1½ points behind Bogoljubow and just ahead of Capablanca.
🔸 The event aroused great interest among the Soviet citizens. Hundreds of spectators followed the games in Hotel Metropol and ten of thousands watched demonstration boards downtown. Bogoljubow's win was regarded as a Soviet victory; however, shortly after this in 1926, like Alexander Alekhine he left the Soviet Union and became a German citizen. Later Bogoljubow and Alekhine were called "renegades" in the USSR.
The film Chess Fever used a number of scenes from the tournament, and even featured Capablanca playing himself. The Cuban-Soviet film Capablanca has its main plot during the tournament.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download "Moscow 1925 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Moscow 1925 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1925
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@unitychess
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✴️ Our selected game from " Moscow 1925 " tournament👇
▪️ Efim Bogoljubov vs Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky
▪️ Moscow (1925), Moscow URS, rd 5, Nov-15
▪️ Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense. Steinitz Development Variation (D26)
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▪️ Efim Bogoljubov vs Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky
▪️ Moscow (1925), Moscow URS, rd 5, Nov-15
▪️ Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense. Steinitz Development Variation (D26)
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30...g5! [A typical move. Black fixes White's doubled pawns and secures the f4 square for his knight.]
31.Kg2 Nf4+ 32.Kg3 Rb1 [△Rh1]
33.Kh2 [33.Rxf4? gxf4+ 34.Kxf4 Rh1 35.Bd3 Rxh3 36.Ke4 h5 37.Kf4 Rh4+ 38.Ke3 Rh1–+ △h4]
33...Kg7 34.h4 Rd1! [Leko shows his excellent technique for converting the advantage. White's rook is now tied up to the g2–pawn and doesn't have any future prospects.]
35.hxg5 hxg5 36.Bb5 Kg6 37.Ba6 Kh5 38.Bb5 Kh4 39.Ba6 Rd2 40.Kg1 Kh5 41.Bc4 Kg6 42.Ba6 Kg7 [Black does not find a path to penetrate into the white kingside and decides to transfer his king to the other side.]
43.Bb5 Kf8 44.Ba6 Ke7 45.Bb5 Kd8 46.Re1 [Finally, White gives up the d4–pawn and tries to activate his rook. Other continuations don't help:]
[46.Ba6 Kc7 47.Bb5 (47.Bf1 Kc6-/+ △Kd5) 47...Rb2! △Kc6 48.Be8 Kd8 49.Bxf7 (49.Bc6 Rb6 50.Ba4 Rb1+ 51.Kh2 Rf1 52.Kg3 Rg1+ 53.Kh2 Rg2+ 54.Kh1 Rxf2 55.Re3 Rd2 56.Re4 Rd3 57.Bb5 Rxf3–+) 49...Ke7 50.Bg8 Rb1+ 51.Kh2 Rb8 52.d5 Nxd5 53.Bxe6 Kxe6–+]
46...Rxd4 47.Ra1 Ng6 48.Ra8+ Kc7 49.Be8 Kb7 50.Bxf7 [50.Ra5 Rf4! 51.Rb5+ Ka6 52.Rb3 Nxe5-/+]
50...Kxa8 51.Bxg6 Rf4 52.Kf1 Kb7 53.Ke2 Kc6 54.Be4+ Kc5–+ 0–1
31.Kg2 Nf4+ 32.Kg3 Rb1 [△Rh1]
33.Kh2 [33.Rxf4? gxf4+ 34.Kxf4 Rh1 35.Bd3 Rxh3 36.Ke4 h5 37.Kf4 Rh4+ 38.Ke3 Rh1–+ △h4]
33...Kg7 34.h4 Rd1! [Leko shows his excellent technique for converting the advantage. White's rook is now tied up to the g2–pawn and doesn't have any future prospects.]
35.hxg5 hxg5 36.Bb5 Kg6 37.Ba6 Kh5 38.Bb5 Kh4 39.Ba6 Rd2 40.Kg1 Kh5 41.Bc4 Kg6 42.Ba6 Kg7 [Black does not find a path to penetrate into the white kingside and decides to transfer his king to the other side.]
43.Bb5 Kf8 44.Ba6 Ke7 45.Bb5 Kd8 46.Re1 [Finally, White gives up the d4–pawn and tries to activate his rook. Other continuations don't help:]
[46.Ba6 Kc7 47.Bb5 (47.Bf1 Kc6-/+ △Kd5) 47...Rb2! △Kc6 48.Be8 Kd8 49.Bxf7 (49.Bc6 Rb6 50.Ba4 Rb1+ 51.Kh2 Rf1 52.Kg3 Rg1+ 53.Kh2 Rg2+ 54.Kh1 Rxf2 55.Re3 Rd2 56.Re4 Rd3 57.Bb5 Rxf3–+) 49...Ke7 50.Bg8 Rb1+ 51.Kh2 Rb8 52.d5 Nxd5 53.Bxe6 Kxe6–+]
46...Rxd4 47.Ra1 Ng6 48.Ra8+ Kc7 49.Be8 Kb7 50.Bxf7 [50.Ra5 Rf4! 51.Rb5+ Ka6 52.Rb3 Nxe5-/+]
50...Kxa8 51.Bxg6 Rf4 52.Kf1 Kb7 53.Ke2 Kc6 54.Be4+ Kc5–+ 0–1