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The Indian chess community raised around Rs 250,000 to fight Corona through an online blitz at the Playchess site.

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The Diagram BLACK TO PLAY (White: Larsen Vs Black: Spassky (RoW Vs USSR 1970) leads into a most famous combination. Black played 12.—h4!! 13. hg4 hg3 14. Rg1 Rh1!! Black had to see this a long time ago. White tried 15. Rxh1 g2 16. Rf1 (The main line 16. Rg1 Qh4+ 17. Kd1 Qh1! Is equally convincing.) The game finished 16. – Qh4+ 17. Kd1 gxf1=Q+ (0-1). Larsen did not wait for 18. Bxf1 Bxg4+ and Qh1 etc.

Devangshu Datta

3 min read Last Updated : Apr 10 2020 | 9:35 PM IST

The Indian chess community raised around Rs 250,000 to fight Corona through an online blitz at the Playchess site. The event was jointly won by GM Nihal Sarin, GM Aravindh Chithambaram and GM Vidit Gujrathi with Nihal taking a tiebreak. The players all contributed, as did others including GM Krishnan Sasikiran who gave Rs 20,000 without playing. Vidit live-streamed his games to raise another Rs 37,000 in donations.

Another blitz event happens on Saturday. As many as 11 GMs, 23 IMs, three WGMs and four WIMs had confirmed their participation by Friday morning, among 242 registered players from India, Bangladesh, Colombia,

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