The FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament
Right now in Kazan, eight women are competing to become the challenger to the current Women’s World Chess Champion, Ju Wenjun. More 🡢
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (1989-)is a Russianchess grandmaster. She won in 2012, 2014 and 2018the Women’sEuropean Individual Championship.
Aaron Nimzowitsch Adolf Anderssen Albert Blees Aleksandra Goryachkina Alexander Alekhine Alexandra Kosteniuk Anish Giri Antoaneta Stefanova Bernhard Horwitz Bobby Fischer Boris Spassky David Paravyan Emanuel Lasker Fabiano Caruana Garry Kasparov Georg Marco Gunay Mammadzada Hikaru Nakamura Hou Yifan Ian Nepomniachtchi Ilya Rabinovich Irina Krush Jennifer Shahade Johannes Zukertort John Bartholomew John Emms Joseph Blackburn José Capablanca Judit Polgar Ju Wenjun Lauren Goodkind Levon Aronian Luis Paulsen Magnus Carlsen Max Euwe Mihkail Botvinnik Mikhail Tal Nigel Short Nona Gaprindashvili Paul Keres Paul Morphy Paul Whitehead Sabina Foisor Susan Polgar Tigran Petrosian Valentina Gunina Veselin Topalov Viktor Korchnoi Viswanathan Anand Wilhelm Steinitz
This is the endgame between two strong German chess players, Siegbert Tarrasch and Max Kurschner, in Nürnberg, 1893. With a surprising sacrifice, white won in two moves. Can you find Siegbert's moves? Play, solve and comment
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