Goldfinch

Team Chess Player & Retired from Civil Aviation ( Air Nav. § ATC Dept ) . Retweet doesn't mean necessarily approval .

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

Ma question !!

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@ImShahinyan Very easy Kc1 !! ; bxc2
Kxc2+#

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

https://t.co/i9xnsg7eT2

[IM David Shahinyan @ImShahinyan]

What do you think about this sacrifice? 🤔

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@ImShahinyan Rb7 ; g6 or g5 forced
Qh8+#

[Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar]

FIDE should not be spreading FALSE INFORMATION!

A week ago (April 24, 2024), I posted a public clarification correcting the false FIDE narrative that Vaishali was the first player in history, male or female, to win 5 games in a row at the Candidates Tournament.

Yes, it was an amazing achievement! Big congratulations to Vaishali! It was well deserved! 👏 But she was not the first, nor the second, to do so. Not only I posted the crosstable, I posted the round by round results.

In the Women’s Candidates Tournament in Shanghai, China in 1992, I started with 4 consecutive wins, then 1 draw, then 5 consecutive wins after that! So I scored 9.5 points in my first 10 games (not counting that everyone had 2 byes). No player, male or female, has ever scored 9.5/10 in any Candidates Tournament in chess history.

I basically won with 6 rounds to spare (ahead of 2 former Women’s World Champions GMs Chiburdanidze & Gaprindashvili). At the end, I won by a 3 point margin.

Here were the round by round results:

- WIM Peng Zhaoqin CHN 0 - 1 HUN GM Polgár, Zsuzsa
- GM Polgár, Zsuzsa HUN 1 - 0 CHN WGM Wang Pin
- WGM Ioseliani, Nana GEO 0 - 1 HUN GM Polgár, Zsuzsa
- GM Polgár, Zsuzsa HUN 1 - 0 CHN Qin Kanying
- WGM Marić, Alisa YUG ½ - ½ HUN GM Polgár, Zsuzsa
- GM Polgár, Zsuzsa HUN 1 - 0 USA GM Levitina, Irina
- GM Gaprindashvili, Nona GEO 0 - 1 HUN GM Polgár, Zsuzsa
- GM Polgár, Zsuzsa HUN 1 - 0 GEO GM Chiburdanidze, Maia
- GM Polgár, Zsuzsa HUN 1 - 0 CHN WIM Peng Zhaoqin 
- WGM Wang Pin CHN 0 - 1 HUN GM Polgár, Zsuzsa

9.5/10

Galliamova in the 1997 Women’s Candidates Tournament in Groningen also had a 4-game, then 5-game, winning streak.

I thought that AFTER I made the public correction a week ago, FIDE would retract the false public information. To my surprise, FIDE did not apologize or publicly correct the false information. In fact, FIDE went one step further by publishing the same FALSE INFORMATION in the FIDE newsletter yesterday!

#FIDECandidates #Competence

@FIDE_chess @ECUonline @advorkovich @EmilSutovsky @WOMChess @ChessbaseIndia

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@ImShahinyan Qd6 !!

[Chessify @ChessifyMe]

A quick brain-teaser for Thursday. 🤯

White mates in 2

[Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar]

Sometimes a player gets a strong attack but cannot finish it off. Here is a good exercise. White has excellent compensation for a pawn. But what is the right continuation? White to move!

This is NOT a one move tactic so please don’t bother posting a useless one move answer. Share your ideas, plans, etc.

#ChessImprovement #ChessPunks #Attack

[Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar]

Middlegame chess tactic: White to move!

#ChessTactic #PuzzleSolving #ChessPunks

[IM David Shahinyan @ImShahinyan]

Looks easy, but not so...🧐
White mates in 2!

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

Thanks... Lichess ... ❤️ Merry Christmas

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@CherguiFathi Quand l'homme veut vivre dans la sérénité sur terre, il lui faut lutter contre tout ce qui peut contribuer à la destruction de sa planète. (M.Keita)

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@CherguiFathi Quand l'homme veut vivre dans la sérénité sur terre, il lui faut lutter contre tout ce qui peut contribuer à la destruction de sa planète. (M.Keita)

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@CherguiFathi
Votre joie est aussi la notre. Le peuple Tunisien est à vos côtés. Félicitations ❤🏆
"Jamais Deux sans Trois ". 🇲🇦❤🇹🇳

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@CherguiFathi
Votre joie est aussi la notre. Le peuple Tunisien est à vos côtés. Félicitations ❤🏆
"Jamais Deux sans Trois ". 🇲🇦❤🇹🇳

[Chessify @ChessifyMe]

Please don't say that black would've resigned long ago 😅 some of the best puzzles are artificially composed

White mates in 2

[Chessify @ChessifyMe]

The zugzwang theme is just hard to resist 🥹

White mates in 3

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@CherguiFathi Trait aux noirs !!
Et les blancs abandonne.

[Goldfinch @CherguiFathi]

@CherguiFathi Les blancs jouent et font mat en 2 coups !!