Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 98
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B) Rf6 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
Abbas, @M_L_110213, @mahyarebrahimi1983, @teIgeraam, @Zamani9899, Nikhil, @hoseini139562, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng
A) Re3 – 5
👍👍👍👍 36%
@aminjabbari400, @Mkhadema, @abas2048, @h_a_d_I_1169, @WataxPin
C) Rf8
▫️ 0%
👥 14 people voted so far.
public poll
B) Rf6 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
Abbas, @M_L_110213, @mahyarebrahimi1983, @teIgeraam, @Zamani9899, Nikhil, @hoseini139562, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng
A) Re3 – 5
👍👍👍👍 36%
@aminjabbari400, @Mkhadema, @abas2048, @h_a_d_I_1169, @WataxPin
C) Rf8
▫️ 0%
👥 14 people voted so far.
🔴 Today is birthday of Vasja Pirc!!
♦️ Yugoslav Chess Grandmaster
▪️ Born: December 19, 1907, Idrija, Slovenia
▪️ Died: June 2, 1980, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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🛑 Today is also birthday of :
🔹 Robert Lee Hess (1991), an American Grandmaster who was US Junior Champion in 2006. In May 2012, his FIDE rating was 2635, fifth in the United States.
🔹 Max Blau (1918-1984), a Swiss International Master born in Germany who won four times Swiss Chess Championship (1953, 1955, 1956, and 1967).
🔹 Jusefs Petkevich (1940), a Latvian Grandmaster who became the Senior World Champion in 2002.
🔹 Andres Rodriguez (1973), the first Uruguayan Grandmaster and former champion. A coach who is living in Argentine.
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♦️ Yugoslav Chess Grandmaster
▪️ Born: December 19, 1907, Idrija, Slovenia
▪️ Died: June 2, 1980, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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🛑 Today is also birthday of :
🔹 Robert Lee Hess (1991), an American Grandmaster who was US Junior Champion in 2006. In May 2012, his FIDE rating was 2635, fifth in the United States.
🔹 Max Blau (1918-1984), a Swiss International Master born in Germany who won four times Swiss Chess Championship (1953, 1955, 1956, and 1967).
🔹 Jusefs Petkevich (1940), a Latvian Grandmaster who became the Senior World Champion in 2002.
🔹 Andres Rodriguez (1973), the first Uruguayan Grandmaster and former champion. A coach who is living in Argentine.
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@unitychess
Nigel Short:
You won't become a great chess player, or a concert pianist, or anything else that is difficult, if you just dabble once a week, for an hour, on Saturday afternoon.
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You won't become a great chess player, or a concert pianist, or anything else that is difficult, if you just dabble once a week, for an hour, on Saturday afternoon.
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC
🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Baku 1972
🔹 40th Soviet Chess Champion
#chess_history_tornaments
#Baku1972
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Baku 1972
🔹 40th Soviet Chess Champion
#chess_history_tornaments
#Baku1972
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Baku 1972
🔸 40th Soviet Chess Champion
🔰 CHAMPION: Mikhail Tal | 15/21 (+9 -0 =12) |
✅ The 40th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XI event played in the city of Baku from November 16th to December 19th, 1972. Nineteen of the USSR's best masters and grandmasters qualified for the round robin tournament, which also counted as a zonal event for the world championship cycle, from the four Soviet semi-finals held earlier in the year.
✅ The qualifiers were (with ELO at time of championship):
▪️ Semyon Furman (2520),
▪️ Evgeni Vasiukov (2575),
▪️ Mikhail Mukhin (2420),
▪️ Ratmir Kholmov (2550)
🔺 Qualified from Uzhgorod;
▪️ Nukhim Rashkovsky (2430),
▪️ Eduard Gufeld (2525),
▪️ Anatoly Lein (2530),
▪️ Yuri Razuvaev (2490),
▪️ Karen Grigorian (2470)
🔺 Qualified from Cheliabinsk;
▪️ Valery Zhidkov (2490),
▪️ Roman Dzindzichashvili (2500),
▪️ Leonid Shamkovich (2535),
▪️ Yuri Balashov (2560),
▪️ Vitaly Tseshkovsky
🔺 Qualified from Kaliningrad;
▪️ Lev Alburt (2450),
▪️ Gennadi Kuzmin (2520),
▪️ Valery Zilberstein (2445),
▪️ Albert Kapengut (2485),
▪️ Vladimir Tukmakov (2560)
🔺 Qualified from Odessa.
🔺 Tseshkovsky was unable to attend so he was replaced with Vladimir Bagirov (2515).
▪️ The field was completed by the attendance of David Bronstein (2585) and Mikhail Tal (2625), both previous Soviet champions, and by the attendance of last year's Soviet champion Vladimir Savon (2595).
✅ Although not as strong as some of the top championships in the past, Tal dominated with his usual flair, finishing undefeated and clear first with 15/21, two points ahead of sole second place, Tukmakov. This Soviet crown was Tal's fourth of an eventual six he would win in his longer career as one of the world's very best chess players.
✳️ Third and fourth place playoff (in 1973, Interzonal qualification):
=1 Kuzmin ½½ ½½ 2
=1 Savon ½½ 01 2
=1 Mukhin ½½ 10 ** 2
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Baku 1972 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Baku 1972 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Baku1972
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🔸 Baku 1972
🔸 40th Soviet Chess Champion
🔰 CHAMPION: Mikhail Tal | 15/21 (+9 -0 =12) |
✅ The 40th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XI event played in the city of Baku from November 16th to December 19th, 1972. Nineteen of the USSR's best masters and grandmasters qualified for the round robin tournament, which also counted as a zonal event for the world championship cycle, from the four Soviet semi-finals held earlier in the year.
✅ The qualifiers were (with ELO at time of championship):
▪️ Semyon Furman (2520),
▪️ Evgeni Vasiukov (2575),
▪️ Mikhail Mukhin (2420),
▪️ Ratmir Kholmov (2550)
🔺 Qualified from Uzhgorod;
▪️ Nukhim Rashkovsky (2430),
▪️ Eduard Gufeld (2525),
▪️ Anatoly Lein (2530),
▪️ Yuri Razuvaev (2490),
▪️ Karen Grigorian (2470)
🔺 Qualified from Cheliabinsk;
▪️ Valery Zhidkov (2490),
▪️ Roman Dzindzichashvili (2500),
▪️ Leonid Shamkovich (2535),
▪️ Yuri Balashov (2560),
▪️ Vitaly Tseshkovsky
🔺 Qualified from Kaliningrad;
▪️ Lev Alburt (2450),
▪️ Gennadi Kuzmin (2520),
▪️ Valery Zilberstein (2445),
▪️ Albert Kapengut (2485),
▪️ Vladimir Tukmakov (2560)
🔺 Qualified from Odessa.
🔺 Tseshkovsky was unable to attend so he was replaced with Vladimir Bagirov (2515).
▪️ The field was completed by the attendance of David Bronstein (2585) and Mikhail Tal (2625), both previous Soviet champions, and by the attendance of last year's Soviet champion Vladimir Savon (2595).
✅ Although not as strong as some of the top championships in the past, Tal dominated with his usual flair, finishing undefeated and clear first with 15/21, two points ahead of sole second place, Tukmakov. This Soviet crown was Tal's fourth of an eventual six he would win in his longer career as one of the world's very best chess players.
✳️ Third and fourth place playoff (in 1973, Interzonal qualification):
=1 Kuzmin ½½ ½½ 2
=1 Savon ½½ 01 2
=1 Mukhin ½½ 10 ** 2
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Baku 1972 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Baku 1972 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Baku1972
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@unitychess
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🔵 Review our selected game from Baku 1972 Chess Tournament👇
🔸 David Bronstein vs Mikhail Tal
🔸 USSR Championship (1972), Baku URS, rd 17, Dec-12
🔸 Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Classical Variation (A01)
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🔸 David Bronstein vs Mikhail Tal
🔸 USSR Championship (1972), Baku URS, rd 17, Dec-12
🔸 Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Classical Variation (A01)
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Wojtaszek,Radoslaw (2727)
⚫️Ladron De Guevara Pinto,Paolo (2427)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 2
⚪️Wojtaszek,Radoslaw (2727)
⚫️Ladron De Guevara Pinto,Paolo (2427)
🔸1-0
22.exd5! [A well-calculated move by Wojtaszek that brings him a material advantage.]
22...cxd5 [22...Bxd5? 23.Nxd5 cxd5 24.Qxd7 Rxd7 25.Rxe7! Rxe7 26.Bxd6 Re3 27.Bf1+–]
23.Qxd7 Rxd7 24.Bxg6! [Obviously, this move had already been considered by Radoslaw.]
24...Bf6 [24...Nf5 25.Nb5 b6 26.Bxf5 Bxf5+ 27.Ka1 Bg6 28.Nc7+ Kb7 29.Nxd5±]
25.Bc2±
22...cxd5 [22...Bxd5? 23.Nxd5 cxd5 24.Qxd7 Rxd7 25.Rxe7! Rxe7 26.Bxd6 Re3 27.Bf1+–]
23.Qxd7 Rxd7 24.Bxg6! [Obviously, this move had already been considered by Radoslaw.]
24...Bf6 [24...Nf5 25.Nb5 b6 26.Bxf5 Bxf5+ 27.Ka1 Bg6 28.Nc7+ Kb7 29.Nxd5±]
25.Bc2±
25.Nd1! [A strong maneuver to transfer the knight to the important f5–outpost.]
[25.g4! is just as good. White is ready to play on both sides of the board. 25...Qd8 26.Be3 c5 27.dxc6 Bxc6 28.Nd5 Nf6 29.Qf2 Nd7 30.Rhd1 a5 31.Bf1 Nc5 32.Rc2 a4 33.Rcd2 Bf8 34.Nc3 a3 35.b3 Ne6 36.Nb5 Bxb5 37.cxb5±; 25.a3 Nf6 26.Nd1 c5 27.dxc6 Bxc6 28.Ne3 Nd7 29.Nf5 Qe6 30.b3±]
25...Nf6 26.Ne3 Ng8 27.Bf1!? Qd8 28.Bh3 Be8 29.Nf5 Ne7 30.Nxg7 Kxg7 31.f4 f6 32.Rcf1 Bd7 33.fxg5 fxg5 34.Be6 Qe8 35.Bxg5 Ng8 [35...hxg5 36.Qc1 Kh7 37.Qxg5 Bxe6 38.dxe6??]
36.Bxg8 hxg5 37.Qd2 Qxg8 38.Qxg5+ Kh7 39.Qe7+ Kh8 40.Rf7 Qg4 41.Rh7+ 1–0
[25.g4! is just as good. White is ready to play on both sides of the board. 25...Qd8 26.Be3 c5 27.dxc6 Bxc6 28.Nd5 Nf6 29.Qf2 Nd7 30.Rhd1 a5 31.Bf1 Nc5 32.Rc2 a4 33.Rcd2 Bf8 34.Nc3 a3 35.b3 Ne6 36.Nb5 Bxb5 37.cxb5±; 25.a3 Nf6 26.Nd1 c5 27.dxc6 Bxc6 28.Ne3 Nd7 29.Nf5 Qe6 30.b3±]
25...Nf6 26.Ne3 Ng8 27.Bf1!? Qd8 28.Bh3 Be8 29.Nf5 Ne7 30.Nxg7 Kxg7 31.f4 f6 32.Rcf1 Bd7 33.fxg5 fxg5 34.Be6 Qe8 35.Bxg5 Ng8 [35...hxg5 36.Qc1 Kh7 37.Qxg5 Bxe6 38.dxe6??]
36.Bxg8 hxg5 37.Qd2 Qxg8 38.Qxg5+ Kh7 39.Qe7+ Kh8 40.Rf7 Qg4 41.Rh7+ 1–0
54...Re3? [54...Rf6!! 55.Rd2 Ra6 56.Rd4 Rc6 57.a5 Rc2+ 58.Kf1 Rc1+ 59.Ke2 Ra1 60.Rd6+ Kg5 61.a6 Ra2+ 62.Kd3 h4 63.Rd5+ Kh6 64.gxh4 Rxa6 65.Rg5 Rg6 66.Rxg6+ Kxg6 67.Ke3 Kh5 68.e5 Kg6 69.Kf4 g3 70.Kxg3 Kf5 71.e6 Kxe6 72.Kg4 Kf6 73.h5=; 54...Rf8?? 55.a5 Ra8 56.a6 Ra7 57.Kf2 Kh6 58.Ra5 Kg7 59.Ke3 Kf6 60.Kd4 h4 61.gxh4 g3 62.Ke3 Rg7 63.Rf5+ Ke6 64.Rg5 Rh7 65.h5 Kd6 66.Kf3 g2 67.Kxg2 Kc7 68.Ra5 Kb8 69.a7+ Ka8 70.Kg3 Rh8 71.Kf4+–]
55.a5 Rxe4 56.a6 Re8 57.a7 Ra8 58.Ra5 Kh6 59.Kf2 Kg6 60.Ke3 Kh6 61.Kf4 Rf8+ 62.Rf5 Rg8 63.Rf6+ Kh7 64.Ra6 1–0
55.a5 Rxe4 56.a6 Re8 57.a7 Ra8 58.Ra5 Kh6 59.Kf2 Kg6 60.Ke3 Kh6 61.Kf4 Rf8+ 62.Rf5 Rg8 63.Rf6+ Kh7 64.Ra6 1–0
Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 99
public poll
A) Bb5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%
Nikhil, @Emergenciiii, @Squirtle1, @abas2048, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, @AryanLeekha, Michael, Matthew, Tito Marfones
B) h4 – 1
👍 9%
@MohamadAsp
C) Rhg2
▫️ 0%
👥 11 people voted so far.
public poll
A) Bb5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%
Nikhil, @Emergenciiii, @Squirtle1, @abas2048, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, @AryanLeekha, Michael, Matthew, Tito Marfones
B) h4 – 1
👍 9%
@MohamadAsp
C) Rhg2
▫️ 0%
👥 11 people voted so far.