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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
♦️ 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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▪️ 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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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2594)
⚫️Wen,Yang (2608)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 6
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2594)
⚫️Wen,Yang (2608)
🔸1-0
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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gordievsky,Dmitry (2630)
⚫️Romanov,Evgeny (2621)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gordievsky,Dmitry (2630)
⚫️Romanov,Evgeny (2621)
🔸1-0
📗50.Kc4? [Kramnik almost let go of everything he had gained.]
50...Ne4? [50...Rd2 51.Kxc5 Ne4+ 52.Kc6 Kd4 and black can make a draw by winning back the lost material.]
51.Kb5? [51.Ra6 Rd2 52.h6 Rxb2 53.Ng4+ Kf4 54.h7 Rb8 55.Nf6 Ng5 56.Rxa4 Rh8 57.Kd5+ Kf5 58.Ra6 Nxh7 59.Nxh7 Rxh7 60.a4 Rh1=; 51.Rg6! Rd2 (51...Rb8 52.h6 Rb4+ 53.Kd3 Rd4+ 54.Ke2 Rd2+ 55.Ke1 Rh2 56.Ng4+ Kf5 57.Nxh2 Kxg6 58.Ng4 c4 59.Ne5+ Kxh6 60.Nxc4+–) 52.h6 Rxb2 53.Ng4+ Kf5 54.h7 Rb8 55.Rg8+–]
50...Ne4? [50...Rd2 51.Kxc5 Ne4+ 52.Kc6 Kd4 and black can make a draw by winning back the lost material.]
51.Kb5? [51.Ra6 Rd2 52.h6 Rxb2 53.Ng4+ Kf4 54.h7 Rb8 55.Nf6 Ng5 56.Rxa4 Rh8 57.Kd5+ Kf5 58.Ra6 Nxh7 59.Nxh7 Rxh7 60.a4 Rh1=; 51.Rg6! Rd2 (51...Rb8 52.h6 Rb4+ 53.Kd3 Rd4+ 54.Ke2 Rd2+ 55.Ke1 Rh2 56.Ng4+ Kf5 57.Nxh2 Kxg6 58.Ng4 c4 59.Ne5+ Kxh6 60.Nxc4+–) 52.h6 Rxb2 53.Ng4+ Kf5 54.h7 Rb8 55.Rg8+–]
📗51...Kd4?
[51...a3 This was the last chance and probably good enough to make a draw.]
52.Nc4 a3 53.Nxa3 Nd6+ 54.Kc6 Nf7 55.Nb5+ [A clear victory in Kramnik's style. Wei Yi needs to learn a lot of ending.] 1-0
[51...a3 This was the last chance and probably good enough to make a draw.]
52.Nc4 a3 53.Nxa3 Nd6+ 54.Kc6 Nf7 55.Nb5+ [A clear victory in Kramnik's style. Wei Yi needs to learn a lot of ending.] 1-0