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🔗 Tanmaya Lal (@Tanmaya\_Lal):
No guesses !
Vishy Anand was crowned the FIDE World Champion for the first time this day two decades ago in Tehran
A memorable title match to follow for us serving then in Iran
Seen here posing excitedly with Aruna and Vishy ♟
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🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking):
Today ....20 years ago . Any guesses?
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No guesses !
Vishy Anand was crowned the FIDE World Champion for the first time this day two decades ago in Tehran
A memorable title match to follow for us serving then in Iran
Seen here posing excitedly with Aruna and Vishy ♟
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🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking):
Today ....20 years ago . Any guesses?
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Memories of another day
🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking)
20 years ago #OnThisDay Vishy Anand won his first of five world championship titles. Starting from a 100-player knockout, the final, played in Tehran, Iran, saw Anand beating Alexei Shirov 3.5-0.5.
#Legend
🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking)
20 years ago #OnThisDay Vishy Anand won his first of five world championship titles. Starting from a 100-player knockout, the final, played in Tehran, Iran, saw Anand beating Alexei Shirov 3.5-0.5.
#Legend
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Daily chess puzzle
Valery Skatchkov - Meri Arabidze, Titled Tuesday 2020
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/216310
Valery Skatchkov - Meri Arabidze, Titled Tuesday 2020
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/216310
chesspuzzle.net
Puzzle 216310: Black to checkmate
Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Skatchkov, Valery - Arabidze, Meri, chess.com 2020.
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Mikhail Botvinnik during a simultaneous exhibition while touring the Netherlands in late 1958 (Associated Press archive).
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 47
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John Donaldson's new book on Bobby Fischer says that Fischer's name first appeared in print in Helms' "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" column of January 18, 1951 (when he was 7, not 8). I have looked up that column.
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
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🎂 Today is the birthday of Irina Krush, the only female American to hold the title of Grandmaster.
At age 14, Irina won the 1998 US Women's Chess Championship - the youngest ever in history, and a record that still stands. She has won this title on seven other occasions.
At age 14, Irina won the 1998 US Women's Chess Championship - the youngest ever in history, and a record that still stands. She has won this title on seven other occasions.
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Mamedyarov Wins Dec. 22 Titled Tuesday
https://www.chess.com/news/view/mamedyarov-wins-dec-22-titled-tuesday
https://www.chess.com/news/view/mamedyarov-wins-dec-22-titled-tuesday
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*** Titled Tuesday Blitz
Official
Rating: Open 766 players Dec 22, 2020, 9:30 PM
Official
Rating: Open 766 players Dec 22, 2020, 9:30 PM
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Ivan Cheparinov wins VII Sunway Sitges Open with 8.0/10
chessbase.in/news/Sunway-Sitges-Open-Round-10-report
chessbase.in/news/Sunway-Sitges-Open-Round-10-report