📘 14.Ra2!
Frees the queen and ensures that any exchange of bishops should lead to pressure against b7.

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🔸Prokopchuk,Evgeny (2440)
🔸Brodsky,Michail (2515)
🔸RUS-Cup4 Perm 1997

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 307

C: Qc2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%

A: Re1 – 3
👍👍👍👍 33%

B: Bf4 – 1
👍 11%

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⚪️#308 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Motwani,Paul (2455)
🔸Hempson,Peter W
🔸BCF-ch Blackpool, 1988

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 308

A: a4 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%

B: b3 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 36%

C: h3 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

The participants in the 1958 championship of the RSFSR.

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Seated, 1st row: V. Korchnoi (Leningrad), R. Nezhmetdinov (Kazan), arbiters Magergut, Bogatin & Cherkes, S. Furman (Leningrad), E. Stoliar (Leningrad).

2nd row: L. Polugaevsky (Kuibyshev), I. Veltmander (Izhevsk), G. Bastrikov (Sverdlovsk), G. Borisenko (Leningrad), V. Zagorovsky (Voronezh), V. Sergievsky (Cheboksary), B. Vladimirov (Leningrad). V. Zhilin (Rostov-on-Don), I. Efimov (Saratov), L. Shamkovich (Rostov-on-Don).

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This was the tournament in the famous game Polugaevsky-Nezhmetdinov (24...Rf4!!, etc.) was played.

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Silver medal winners at the 24th Olympiad in Malta - Hungary. Left to right: József Pintér, Iván Faragó, István Csom, Gyula Sax, Zoltán Ribli, Lajos Portisch.

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Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik during the opening ceremony of their first world championship match, March 1960.

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▪️ Alexander Kotov
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Author

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▪️ Alexander Kotov
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Author

♦️ Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet chess champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific writer on the subject of chess.

🔸 Full name: Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov
🔸 Country: Soviet Union
🔸 Born: 12 August 1913 Tula, Russian Empire
🔸 Died: 8 January 1981 (aged 67) Moscow, Soviet Union
🔸 Title: Grandmaster
🔸 Peak rating: 2510 (July 1971)

♦️ Alexander Kotov was born in Tula. He won the Moscow Championship in 1941 [rusbase-1] and was jointly with David Bronstein USSR Champion in 1948 [rusbase-2]. He achieved the GM title in 1950, having qualified for the Budapest Candidates (1950), in which he finished sixth. Kotov again qualified, in grand style with a victory in the Stockholm Interzonal (1952), where his 16.5/20 score was 3 points clear of second place. His Zurich Candidates (1953) appearance was not as successful: he only managed to finish eighth. Kotov won at Venice 1950, ahead of Vasily Smyslov.

♦️ Today, Kotov is probably best remembered as an author; his book Think Like A Grandmaster is one of the best-selling chess books of all time. He passed away in Moscow in 1981.

♦️A tactical and memorable game by Kotov against Bronstein in USSR CH 1944 which known "Take Your Kotov" in chessgames.com site👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Alexander Kotov vs David Bronstein
🔹 USSR Championship (1944), Moscow URS, rd 16, Jun-14
🔹 King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Classical Fianchetto (E67)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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🔸 Alexander Kotov - David Bronstein, USSR ch 1944
🔸 PGN format
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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2594)
⚫️Wen,Yang (2608)
🔸1-0

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gordievsky,Dmitry (2630)
⚫️Romanov,Evgeny (2621)
🔸1-0

🔸GM Elshan Moradiabadi game analysis of the Tata Steel Masters 2018