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🔸UT Dallas Fall Open 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Gareev,T (2584)
⚫️Ostrovskiy,Al (2420)
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20.f5! [This move restricts Black's pieces and clears the f4–square for White's rook.]

20...g6? [¹20...Qd6 21.Rf4! Qe5 22.Qf2 Qxe3 23.Rd1! Nxg2!? 24.Kxg2 Qe7±]

21.Qf2 [¹21.fxg6! △Qf2 21...fxg6 22.Qf2 △Nge2 22...Qd6 23.Nge2! Nf5 24.Nxf5 gxf5 25.Bxf5 Bxf5 26.Qxf5+– △Nd4]

21...Nxf5? [Black could have put up more stubborn resistance with the following continuation:]

[¹21...g5 22.Nge2 Ne4 23.Bxe4 dxe4 24.Qg3 h6 25.Qc7!±]

22.Ngxf5 gxf5 23.Bxf5 Bxf5 24.Rc6+– [¹24.Qxf5! Rd6 25.Qg5+ Kh8 26.Nf5 Rg8 27.Qf4+– △Nh6]
Amsterdam, 15th July 1968. At the drawing of lots for the IBM tournament, grandmasters David Bronstein (USSR) and Hein Donner (Netherlands).

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"...Not so with Fischer..."

🔸 Mark Taimanov

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Yuri Averbakh playing Donald Byrne in USA-USSR match in New York, 1954. Byrne won his mini-match 3-1.

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Pictured in play at the 7th USSR People's Spartakiad in Moscow, July 1979 - 2nd board for the Azerbaijan SSR (behind grandmaster Vladimir Bagirov), the 16-year-old Master of Sport Kasparov.

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Kramnik's advice to the youngsters on how to press the chess clock during blitz!

It's nice to see that the 14th World Champion is working with these youngsters not just to improve their over the board skills, but also their off the overall attitude as well.
The sole leader after three rounds Alireza Firouzja had Black versus World Fischer Random champion Wesley So. It was Firouzja's first game against a Top-10 player in Wijk ann Zee. So won and grabbed the lead.