Grandmaster Oleg Romanishin and World Champion Anatoly Karpov in conversation at the tournament at Tilburg, Netherlands. 12th November, 1979.

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Grandmaster Oleg Romanishin, in play v. Kick Langeweg at the IBM Tournament, Amsterdam, July 1978.

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Mikhail Tal [in his autobiography]: "I am probably a little jealous if the spectators react noisily to a move made on a neighbouring board or by my opponent, and not by me."

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Hein Donner looks on during one of the stem games of the 'Hungarian Variation' of the Grünfeld Defence (4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 dc4 6.Qc4 0-0 7.e4 a6) - Lajos Portisch v. András Adorján, 15th round, Amsterdam IBM tournament, 31st July 1971

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Alexander Shabalov (1967- ) was born in Latvia and studied under Tal. He has won the US championship 4 times. He has won the US Open 7 times. In 2015, he was inducted in the US Hall of Fame. On Dec 30, he won the 44th annual Eastern Open at Tysons Corner with a perfect 7-0.

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Anatoly Karpov and the notorious "Dr. [Vladimir] Zoukhar" during a rest day in Baguio, July 1978.

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At the 'Interpolis' tournament at Tilburg, Netherlands round 2, 2nd October 1981. Jan Timman is in conversation with Genna Sosonko, who is in play v. Kasparov- visible in the background.

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

🔸Tata Steel Masters
🔸Round 1
⚪️Anand,Viswanathan (2767)
⚫️Matlakov,Maxim (2718)
🔸1-0
🔍Annotator: [GM Elshan Moradiabadi ]

📗10...Ba7

(10...Bg4 11.h3 Bh5 12.Nbd2 has been played with no avail for black. White has slight advantage here.)

11.Nbd2 Na5 12.Bc2

📗13...b4! A forced reaction. 14.c×b4 Nc6 15.b5 Nb4 16.Nc4 Anand plays fast and he seems to be in control. Both sides have way too many weaknesses.

📗 27...Qg5? why to give up d6?
(27...Qe7 28.Ne3 Qg5)
28.N×d6 Be6 29.Nhf5 N×f5 30.e×f5 Bd5 31.Qe2 now e5 is vulnerable.

48... Rd4? [fatal mistake. but white is winning anyways.]

[48...Qe7 49.Kf3!

a) 49.Qc3 Rxe4;

b) 49.Ke2 Qc7 (49...Qa7 50.Kf3?! Qa2!) 50.Kf3 Qe7 51.Qc3 should also be winning for white.;

49...Qc7 50.g4 b5 (50...Kg8 51.g5 hxg5 52.Qd2 Qe7 53.Rd7; 50...Kh7 51.Rd7) 51.g5 hxg5 52.Qd2 Qe7 53.Rd6 Rd4
54.Rxd4 exd4 55.Qxd4+ with winning endgame for white.]

49.Rxd4 exd4 50.Qb5! [centralizing.]

50...Qd8 [50...Qg5 51.Qe5+ Qf6 52.Qxf6+ Kxf6 53.Ke2 Ke5 54.Kd3 h5 55.b4 b5 56.f6‡]

51.Qd5 Qf6 52.g4 Kg8 53.Kf3 [e5 and fall of d4 is unstoppable.] 1-0

🔍Annotator: [GM Elshan Moradiabadi ]