Emanuel Lasker was world champion for 27 (!) years, but he nearly lost his title in 1910 to Carl Schlechter. FM Andrey Terekhov shares the fascinating story of that match.

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Amsterdam, 4th August 1973. The final round of the IBM tournament; Albin Planinc is in play v. Bertus Enklaar. Ex-World Champion Tigran Petrosian looks on.

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"Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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Wijk aan Zee, 30th January 1987. In the penultimate round, Nigel Short faced Helgi Ólafsson. The English GM won this game and shared 1st-2nd place with Viktor Korchnoi, though you might not have guessed from this picture...

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Headlines: The Adventure of Chess Programming (Part 1) http://dlvr.it/QyCXvk

The 27th International Fajr Cup is taking place from 5-11 February in Tehran, Iran.
Yuriy Kuzubov 🇺🇦(2650), Pavel Ponkratov 🇷🇺(2630), Alireza Firouzja 🇮🇷(2618), Sergey Fedorchuk 🇺🇦(2604) and other grandmasters participate in the event.

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Did you know that there is a 2Euro coin with Paul Keres on it?

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Krishna,C R G (2445)
⚫️Rapport,Richard (2725)
🔸0-1

25...h5? [Rapport misses a powerful maneuver to exploit the weakness of the g1–a7 diagonal.]

[25...Qc8! △Qc5 26.Nb3 Re7 27.Rad1 Rfe8 28.a5 Nd7 29.Nc1 Qc5+ 30.Kh1 Re3-/+]

26.a5! Nd7 27.b3?! [Krishna could now have obtained a great superiority by attacking the c4–pawn:]

[27.Ra4! △R×c4 27...N7e5 (27...h4 28.Rxc4 N7c5 29.f5+– △Ne6) 28.Ncb5 Nc5 29.Rb4 Na6 30.Nxd6 Nxb4 31.Nxe8+ Rxe8 32.Qxb4 Kg8 33.Qa4±]

27...h4 28.bxc4 N7c5? [28...N3c5 29.Qg2 hxg3 30.Qxg3=]

29.Rf3 Ne5 30.fxe5 dxe5 31.Nce2? [31.Ncb5! exd4 32.Rf4 △Q×d4 32...Qe2 33.Qxe2 Rxe2 34.Nxd4±]

31...Ne4 32.Qb2?=

0–1

⚫️#133 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Cori T.,Deysi (2406)
🔸Atalik,Ekaterina (2445)
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13...Bg4! [A clever developing move that besides clearing the c8–square for his rook on a8, it also provokes White to play f3.]

[13...Rb8 14.h3±; 13...Nc5 14.Rad1±]

14.f3 [14.Qc2 Nxc4 15.Bxb7 Nb4 16.Qe4 Nxb2 17.Qxg4 (17.Bxa8 Bxd4 18.exd4 Bf5 19.Qb7 Qxa8 20.Qxb4 Qf3 21.Qxe7 Qxc3–+) 17...Rb8 18.Qe2 Rxb7 19.Qxb2 Bxd4 20.exd4 Qxd4³]

14...Bd7 15.Rac1 Rc8 16.Ncb5 Qb6 17.Ba3 Rfe8 18.Rfd1 Nc5 19.Rb1 Qa6=/+

0–1

⚪️ #133 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Bodnaruk,A (2426)
🔸Vega Gutierrez,S (2389)
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