!TUUR (Arthur van de Oudeweetering)
@tuurone.bsky.social
#Chesspattern watcher, author of 3 practical books on pattern recognition(strategical, middlegame), IM & enjoying pretty much every aspect of the game of chess
Alekhine memorial Moscow 1975, Bohm-Spassky.
Spassky created a small positional masterpiece vs his own Leningrad variation, doing without his a8-rook most of the game; Bohm missed one chance to get back in the game: 24.Bd4! #centralavalanches #chesspattern #chess
Spassky created a small positional masterpiece vs his own Leningrad variation, doing without his a8-rook most of the game; Bohm missed one chance to get back in the game: 24.Bd4! #centralavalanches #chesspattern #chess
December 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Alekhine memorial Moscow 1975, Bohm-Spassky.
Spassky created a small positional masterpiece vs his own Leningrad variation, doing without his a8-rook most of the game; Bohm missed one chance to get back in the game: 24.Bd4! #centralavalanches #chesspattern #chess
Spassky created a small positional masterpiece vs his own Leningrad variation, doing without his a8-rook most of the game; Bohm missed one chance to get back in the game: 24.Bd4! #centralavalanches #chesspattern #chess
You can witness a tiny bit of the last round rollercoaster, when leader Reshevsky would lose to Book, while Petrov had the better of a draw vs Flohr, landing both in 1st place too. Alekhine and Keres failed to catch-up, drawing Berg & Feigin respectively. bsky.app/profile/tuur... #chess
Fabulous footage from Kemeri 1937 with the likes of Reshevsky, Petrov, Flohr the 3 winners before a.o. Alekhine & Keres! From 3'11" redzidzirdilatviju.lv/lv/search/mo... Treasure in the Latvian archives. #chess
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
You can witness a tiny bit of the last round rollercoaster, when leader Reshevsky would lose to Book, while Petrov had the better of a draw vs Flohr, landing both in 1st place too. Alekhine and Keres failed to catch-up, drawing Berg & Feigin respectively. bsky.app/profile/tuur... #chess
Chekhover vs. a young Alexander Nikitin, Riga 1952 semi-finals USSR championship.
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Chekhover vs. a young Alexander Nikitin, Riga 1952 semi-finals USSR championship.
Fabulous footage from Kemeri 1937 with the likes of Reshevsky, Petrov, Flohr the 3 winners before a.o. Alekhine & Keres! From 3'11" redzidzirdilatviju.lv/lv/search/mo... Treasure in the Latvian archives. #chess
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fabulous footage from Kemeri 1937 with the likes of Reshevsky, Petrov, Flohr the 3 winners before a.o. Alekhine & Keres! From 3'11" redzidzirdilatviju.lv/lv/search/mo... Treasure in the Latvian archives. #chess
Krylenko in 1928: "We are now finished with citizen Alekhine—he is our enemy, and from now on we can only treat him as an enemy." "Under no circumstances I will return to Soviet Russia" Alekhine had declared in an interview with United Press. chesspro.ru/enciklopediy...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Krylenko in 1928: "We are now finished with citizen Alekhine—he is our enemy, and from now on we can only treat him as an enemy." "Under no circumstances I will return to Soviet Russia" Alekhine had declared in an interview with United Press. chesspro.ru/enciklopediy...
#chess
#chess
Mikhail Tal 70 years ago (December 1955), student at the Latvian State University (Latvian archives).
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Mikhail Tal 70 years ago (December 1955), student at the Latvian State University (Latvian archives).
"A group of neutral individual athletes cannot, by definition, be considered a team"(IOC). How the FIDE-team may - anyway - win its own FIDE World Women's Team Championship 2025 explained by Andre Schulz from Chessbase: en.chessbase.com/post/after-e... #chess
After exclusion: Russian team back in FIDE World Championship
A Russian team will be competing in an international team competition at the World Women's Team Championship in Linares for the first time since Russia's attack on Ukraine, albeit under the FIDE flag....
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November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"A group of neutral individual athletes cannot, by definition, be considered a team"(IOC). How the FIDE-team may - anyway - win its own FIDE World Women's Team Championship 2025 explained by Andre Schulz from Chessbase: en.chessbase.com/post/after-e... #chess
There was this crucial encounter in round 10 - Bronstein-Keres (both trailed Geller by half a point). Which 41st move did Bronstein seal after half an hour's thought? And which fine defensive opportunity did he pass by on move 50 (instead of 50.Bb5?) #chess bsky.app/profile/tuur...
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
There was this crucial encounter in round 10 - Bronstein-Keres (both trailed Geller by half a point). Which 41st move did Bronstein seal after half an hour's thought? And which fine defensive opportunity did he pass by on move 50 (instead of 50.Bb5?) #chess bsky.app/profile/tuur...
The 10th & 11th round of the Amsterdam candidates 1956 were played in Leeuwarden, in the spacious hall of the 'Beursgebouw", housing a thousand spectators. According to Szabo, most participants were less pleased by the 35 km distance that had to be travelled to the Lauswolt hotel. #chess
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The 10th & 11th round of the Amsterdam candidates 1956 were played in Leeuwarden, in the spacious hall of the 'Beursgebouw", housing a thousand spectators. According to Szabo, most participants were less pleased by the 35 km distance that had to be travelled to the Lauswolt hotel. #chess
Paul Keres leading the Candidates' tournament of Amsterdam 1956 after the two rounds in Leeuwarden (10 &11 from 19). Photo by Sjoerd Andringa, April 13th 1956. #chess
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Paul Keres leading the Candidates' tournament of Amsterdam 1956 after the two rounds in Leeuwarden (10 &11 from 19). Photo by Sjoerd Andringa, April 13th 1956. #chess
In the footsteps of a.o. Botvinnik, Eline Roebers manoeuvres her queen 16....Qg8! & 17...Qh7 #creepingqueen #chesspattern and goes on to beat Shirov! #Hoogeveenchess #chess
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In the footsteps of a.o. Botvinnik, Eline Roebers manoeuvres her queen 16....Qg8! & 17...Qh7 #creepingqueen #chesspattern and goes on to beat Shirov! #Hoogeveenchess #chess
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
bsky.app/profile/tuur... In his younger years in Belarus Mazel composed studies & promoted #chess in far-away Irkutsk & UIan-Ude. His behaviour during chessgames wasn't impeccable: in 1939 he was suspended for a year. In 1941 Lieutenant Mazel faithfully patrolled between rounds.
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
bsky.app/profile/tuur... In his younger years in Belarus Mazel composed studies & promoted #chess in far-away Irkutsk & UIan-Ude. His behaviour during chessgames wasn't impeccable: in 1939 he was suspended for a year. In 1941 Lieutenant Mazel faithfully patrolled between rounds.
In this position apparently Isaak Mazel (left) lost on time with White vs Bastrikov, USSR trade union 1938. Arbiter Volkovitsky inspects the matter. Mazel (1911-1945) was 2-time participant of the USSRch, won a match vs Kmoch in 1934 & the Moscow-ch 1941. Husband of Olga Rubtsova #chess
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In this position apparently Isaak Mazel (left) lost on time with White vs Bastrikov, USSR trade union 1938. Arbiter Volkovitsky inspects the matter. Mazel (1911-1945) was 2-time participant of the USSRch, won a match vs Kmoch in 1934 & the Moscow-ch 1941. Husband of Olga Rubtsova #chess
In fact, at this moment Nikolai Riumin was leading the tournament - undefeated, half a point ahead of Botvinnik, with 3 rounds to go. Yet he would lose this crucial game (as well as the last 2 games!), still he came 2nd in this 1931 USSR #chess championship.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In fact, at this moment Nikolai Riumin was leading the tournament - undefeated, half a point ahead of Botvinnik, with 3 rounds to go. Yet he would lose this crucial game (as well as the last 2 games!), still he came 2nd in this 1931 USSR #chess championship.
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The picturesque position of Botvinnik-Riumin live(?) in 1931. The onlookers are Vainstein, Volkovisky and Zubarev.
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The picturesque position of Botvinnik-Riumin live(?) in 1931. The onlookers are Vainstein, Volkovisky and Zubarev.
Tamaz Giorgadze in later years #chess bsky.app/profile/tuur...
October 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Tamaz Giorgadze in later years #chess bsky.app/profile/tuur...
Baadur Jobava pictured in 2004. At the age of 16 he played 1st board of Georgia II at the European Team Ch 1999 in Batumi. Today at the #ETCC2025 - also in Batumi - he snatched victory from (two-time European champion & world championship candidate) Matthias Bluebaum.
October 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Baadur Jobava pictured in 2004. At the age of 16 he played 1st board of Georgia II at the European Team Ch 1999 in Batumi. Today at the #ETCC2025 - also in Batumi - he snatched victory from (two-time European champion & world championship candidate) Matthias Bluebaum.
Picture of a young Tamaz Georgadze (no moustache yet). He won the 3rd edition of the USSR Young Masters in 1969, which was held in Batumi #ETCC2025. Later ao he obtained a 4th place in the 1978 & 1979 USSRch, was part of Karpov's team, whereafter "Don Tomasio" went into business in Spain
October 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Picture of a young Tamaz Georgadze (no moustache yet). He won the 3rd edition of the USSR Young Masters in 1969, which was held in Batumi #ETCC2025. Later ao he obtained a 4th place in the 1978 & 1979 USSRch, was part of Karpov's team, whereafter "Don Tomasio" went into business in Spain
Nino Khurtsidze played 1st board of Georgia's first women's team at the 3rd European Team #chess championships 1999 in Batumi (only two boards & one reserve player those days). The year before she had won the national men's championship. She died much too young in 2018.
October 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Nino Khurtsidze played 1st board of Georgia's first women's team at the 3rd European Team #chess championships 1999 in Batumi (only two boards & one reserve player those days). The year before she had won the national men's championship. She died much too young in 2018.