Miguel Najdorf faces Gideon Ståhlberg, while Samuel Reshevsky passes the board.(Amsterdam 1950) Najdorf won this game in 100 moves, on his way to winning the event.
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In the press room during 27th match-game Karpov-Kasparov, World championship, Moscow 1984; Mark Taimanov & Mikhail Tal.
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Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in the tournament "Together with grandmasters," Chelyabinsk, 1971.
Karpov won the game against 9-year-old Kasparov.
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Karpov won the game against 9-year-old Kasparov.
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An endgame sequence from Pentala Harikrishna v Jan Smeets in the Under-12 section of the World Rapid Chess Championship, Marne-la-Vallée, December 14, 1996.
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US ch rd 4: Izoria (2599) beat Caruana (2812) with Black! Shankland beat Robson. All others drawn. So, Shankland, and Akobian all in 1st place with 3 out of 4. Rd 5 pairings: Shankland-Caruana, Onischuk-Robson, Liang-Zherebukh, Lenderman-Nakamura, Xiong-So, & Izoria-Akobian.
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▪️ Isaac Boleslavsky
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet chess grandmaster. He was also a chess writer.
▫️ Full name: Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky
▫️ Country: Soviet Union
▫️ Born: June 9, 1919
Zolotonosha, Ukrainian SSR
▫️ Died: February 15, 1977 (aged 57)
Minsk, Belarussian SSR, USSR
▫️ Titl:e Grandmaster
▫️ Peak rating: 2560 (July 1971)
♦️ Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age nine. In 1933, Boleslavsky became schoolboy champion of Dnipropetrovsk. Three years later, he won third prize in the 1936 USSR All-Union Junior Championship, held in Leningrad.
♦️ In 1938, at nineteen, he won the Ukrainian Championship; the following year, he won the Ukraine SSR championship, qualified to play in the USSR Chess Championship at the age of 20, and gained his national chess master title. He earned a degree in philology at Sverdlovsk University.
♦️ In 1940, Boleslavsky played in the 12th USSR championship final in Moscow. He won eight of his last ten games and tied for fifth/sixth place with Mikhail Botvinnik, but lost their personal meeting.
♦️ In 1946, his daughter Tatiana was born; she later married David Bronstein. Boleslavsky and Bronstein had become friends in the late 1930s, and remained so throughout their lives. In 1946, Boleslavsky played abroad in an international tournament for the first time in Groningen and tied for sixth/seventh place.
In 1950 Boleslavsky was one of the inaugural recipients of the International Grandmaster title from FIDE.
♦️ A memorable game by Boleslavsky👇🏼
🔹 Isaac Boleslavsky vs Vasily Smyslov
🔹 Budapest Candidates (1950), Budapest HUN, rd 6, Apr-20
🔹 Slav Defense: Alapin Variation (D16)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ Isaac Boleslavsky
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet chess grandmaster. He was also a chess writer.
▫️ Full name: Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky
▫️ Country: Soviet Union
▫️ Born: June 9, 1919
Zolotonosha, Ukrainian SSR
▫️ Died: February 15, 1977 (aged 57)
Minsk, Belarussian SSR, USSR
▫️ Titl:e Grandmaster
▫️ Peak rating: 2560 (July 1971)
♦️ Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age nine. In 1933, Boleslavsky became schoolboy champion of Dnipropetrovsk. Three years later, he won third prize in the 1936 USSR All-Union Junior Championship, held in Leningrad.
♦️ In 1938, at nineteen, he won the Ukrainian Championship; the following year, he won the Ukraine SSR championship, qualified to play in the USSR Chess Championship at the age of 20, and gained his national chess master title. He earned a degree in philology at Sverdlovsk University.
♦️ In 1940, Boleslavsky played in the 12th USSR championship final in Moscow. He won eight of his last ten games and tied for fifth/sixth place with Mikhail Botvinnik, but lost their personal meeting.
♦️ In 1946, his daughter Tatiana was born; she later married David Bronstein. Boleslavsky and Bronstein had become friends in the late 1930s, and remained so throughout their lives. In 1946, Boleslavsky played abroad in an international tournament for the first time in Groningen and tied for sixth/seventh place.
In 1950 Boleslavsky was one of the inaugural recipients of the International Grandmaster title from FIDE.
♦️ A memorable game by Boleslavsky👇🏼
🔹 Isaac Boleslavsky vs Vasily Smyslov
🔹 Budapest Candidates (1950), Budapest HUN, rd 6, Apr-20
🔹 Slav Defense: Alapin Variation (D16)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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📘 7...Kh8
With the idea of ...Ng8 and ...f5.
The other usual moves are:
A) 7...Na5 8.Ba2 c5
B) 7...h6 8.Nbd2 Nh7 —->Ng5
C) 7.Be6--->Qd7
8.h3 Ng8 9.Nc3 f5
With the idea of ...Ng8 and ...f5.
The other usual moves are:
A) 7...Na5 8.Ba2 c5
B) 7...h6 8.Nbd2 Nh7 —->Ng5
C) 7.Be6--->Qd7
8.h3 Ng8 9.Nc3 f5