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@SusanPolgar 1. Bxf7+ Kxf7
2. O-O+ Kg8
3. Qg7+ mate

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@GMIgorSmirnov 1. Qh3+! Qxh3
2. Bf3+ mate

It took me 10 seconds.

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@chesscom No one alive today since Magnus Carlsen is better than everyone else including Gukesh. From the past obviously Morphy, Philidor, Greco, Ruy López de Segura and many more. Also Bronstein since he was forced to lose the match against Botvinnik! https://t.co/55VpCsGFVB

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@GM_Gabuzyan 1. Qa1 Bd5+
2. Rg2+ mate
45 seconds

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@chess24com It should be a lifetime ban from chess! The GM title should be revoked since Kirill Shevchenko might very well have cheated when playing games to obtain GM (and IM) title.

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@PicturesFoIder

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@PicturesFoIder

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@GMIgorSmirnov Bobby Fischer

[Lissa Warren @lissa_warren]

Listen to @SusanPolgar on The Optimal Life discussing her rise to prominence in the world of chess and her memoir, REBEL QUEEN: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster: https://t.co/aucNt8t8Gx @GrandCentralPub

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@SusanPolgar @advorkovich @EuropeEchecs @chesscom @chessdom @ChessbaseIndia @ChessBase @chessclubICC Smyslov, Tal, Botvinnik, Spassky and Karpov. I was very lucky to get a chess lesson from Karpov in a hotel room at the Chess Olympiad in Moscow 1994.

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@chesscom At 4 years and 6 months when Carlsen did not yet know the rules of chess. With Capablanca it would be 2 years and 6 months. When Capablanca was 3 years old he taught himself the rules how the pieces moves by silently watching his father play chess.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Cat judo world championship

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@chesscom Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen

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@GMJuditPolgar Wow it is bigger than I thought! I studied the Fischer Clock patent years ago. Thanks for sharing the photo Judit! I saw the first FIDE version of the Fischer clock at the Olympiad in Moscow 1994. I also met you there as a spectator!

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@SusanPolgar 1. Qxh7+ Nxh7
2. Ng6+ Kg8
3. Nxe7+ Kf7
4. Nxc6 Nf6
5. Nxa5 . . .

Susan would you stop your analysis here and play 1. Qxh7+, or would you analyse 5… Ng4 and whether to ignore the h2 Pawn and get the Pawn storm moving on the Q-side, or look at 6. h3 Nf2 7. h4 Ne4, etc?

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@SusanPolgar 1. Qxb5+ cxb5
2. Na6+ Ka8
3. Be4+ Nd5
4. Bxd5+ mate
Beautiful! Amazed you create these puzzles in your sleep! How many puzzles did you come up with during sleep?

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@anishgiri Bobby Fischer, who might have had the strongest memory of all chess players in history said ”I don’t think you can memorise opening theory for 960 starting positions. It is too much, all those variations would be bouncing around in your head.”

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@SusanPolgar @x3firearms @FIDE_chess @ECUonline Fischer said in an interview ”They call it Chess960 because they don’t want to associate my name with it!” Are you sure Fischer was OK with ”Chess960”? The original name is apparently FISCHERANDOM (with one R). That is what Fischer wrote in the original rules.

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@SusanPolgar Did you and Fischer think about removing the classical chess starting position from the set? How did you reason about it? I don’t like that they removed it in ”Freestyle”, and after revealing the starting position allow analysing and moving pieces before the game during 10 min.

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@SusanPolgar It is fascinating that with a Black Pawn on a6, White can mate in 90 moves (source: https://t.co/LiVvvdJa1N online table bases)