#efim geller

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Petrosian, Fischer, and Geller at the Stockholm Interzonal tournament in 1962

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Efim Geller in 1969

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Efim Geller was one of very few who had a positive score against Bobby Fischer. Out of 10 games Fischer won 2, Geller won 5 and 3 were drawn. Geller also had a positive score against most strong players at the time; Petrosian, Tal, Botvinnik, Smyslov… He was one of Fischer’s biggest rivals, along with Spassky. In this game Fischer made up for his negative score against Geller, though. He won in only 22 moves! An astonishing game by 18 year old Fischer who managed to exploit Geller’s mistakes swiftly and defeat him in great style.

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Zurich 1953: Arta apararii pana la ultima resursa, intr-o intalnire intrata in istoria povestilor sahului

Zurich 1953: Arta apararii pana la ultima resursa, intr-o intalnire intrata in istoria povestilor sahului

 La celebrul turneu al candidatilor, Zurich 1953, s-a ajuns intr-un final instructiv din practica sahista intre Reshevsky si Geller. Se remarca faptul ca partea mai slaba a condus lupta tinand cont de respectarea tuturor si experientei stategiei sahiste. Negrul a tinut seama de toate nuantelor posibile si imposibile ale pozitiei si s-a agatat de fiecare posibilitate cei i s-a oferit pentru…

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Amazing Chess Puzzles #4

Puzzles 21 to 25 in the series. Four of these puzzles are from actual games and puzzle 25 was composed.

There are multiple solutions to puzzle 25 leading to a checkmate but all of them uses at-least 15+ moves apart from the one shown here that wins in 14…

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