New phobia - having an uncastled king against Ding Liren 👻😱🕷

With a relentless attack, Ding brings
Yan Nepomniachtchi's to heel and wins a nice game! 👏

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The players talk about their pre game rituals. Really curious to know what song Vachier_Lagrave is listening to during Croatia #GrandChessTour

Fischer vs Saidy US championship 1963/64 final round.
At this stage Fischer had 10/10 and in this game they entered a drawn Bishop vs Knight end-game with a slight advantage for Fischer.
He pushed and pushed and in the end Saidy cracked.
Fischer won with 11/11 a sensation!

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"Chess is the struggle against error."

🔸 Johannes Zukertort

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Minsk, January 1986 - the Candidates' quarter-final match between Soviet grandmasters Rafael Vaganian and Andrei Sokolov. Chief arbiter A. A. Zakharov can be seen by the board.

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So basically in every 25 years we have a new rating record.
It's interesting to look how ratings have changed durning history.

In 1970s there were only two 2700 players.
In 1990 Kasparov broke 2800.
And now there are ~40 2700 rated players and 13 players have been in 2800 club.

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Move of the day :

1...Rb8! 1/2-1/2 !!

Alfred Ehrhardt Post - Aron Nimzowitsch, Barmen 1905

Tuesday July 2nd is a day off, but we have a big match up on the 3rd when the games resume! What's your prediction in the Nepomniachtchi-Carlsen match? Keep in mind that Carlsen will have the black pieces and has never defeated Nepomniachtchi in classical chess #GrandChessTour

It's a free day at #GrandChessTour after the extremely fighting R6.

R7, July 3:
(4) Nepomniachtchi - Carlsen (4)
(3,5) Caruana - Giri (2)
(2,5) Anand - Ding (3,5)
(2) Mamedyarov - Vachier-Lagrave (2,5)
(2,5) Karjakin - So (4)
(2) Nakamura - Aronian (3,5)

After a draw in the last round vs Leinier Dominguez, Boris Gelfand won the 10-player Netanya Masters round robin (2677 average). Both scored 5,5/9 but Gelfand had a better tiebreak.

Results:
http://chess-results.com/tnr437937.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30

51 y/o Gelfand (2686.2, World #51) wins the Netanya Masters with 5.5/9 on tie-breaks https://2700chess.com/live