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Sunday Puzzle-40
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Puzzle courtesy of Barry R. Clarke, columnist for The Daily Telegraph and international puzzle expert

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 Professor Brainbloom had a very curious mathematical garden. There were probability trees, random flowers that had grown from seed, and broken garden gnomes that looked fractionally vulgar! Mathematical phenomena used to occur too. Like the time when the professor was laying a path of square slabs. He was just lowering the last slab into position when a prime pear struck his head. The slab crashed to the ground and shattered into pieces. The professor might have been annoyed, but he soon realised that the square slab had broken into exactly nine triangular pieces so that every angle was less than a right angle. How were the triangles arranged in the square?

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Chess Tactics
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Edouard (2666) - Picard (2346), 2013
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a) How should Black proceed?
b) In the game 36...Rc7 was played. What is the best line for White?

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FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki, Round 9 Odds
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Round 9 starts on June 1, 3 p.m. Moscow time:




Based on Peter Zhdanov's ChessBet model

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June 2013 FIDE Rating List
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47 players have a rating of 2700+. Nikita Vitiugov broke his personal record (2733-2734), and so did Anton Korobov (2705-2715).

Updated list of all-time highest chess ratings

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Sergey Karjakin gets featured this month for having won the Norway Chess super tournament and having gained 15 rating points

All the players rated 2700+:

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Meet a Genuine Chess Billionaire
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Sergey Galitsky, 45, is a co-owner of a major Russian retail chain Magnit and president of FC Krasnodar. According to Forbes, as of 2013 his personal fortune was estimated at US $8.2 billion, making him the #138th richest person in the world. So why are we interested in his personality? Sergey is also a proficient chess player who can give 20-board simuls!

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Missed Chess Tactics
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Zherebukh (2629) - Wirig (2498), 2013
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Black could have won the game, but instead he played and inferior move and resigned in a slightly worse position 8 moves later. What is the best continuation for Black?

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Vladimir Fortov Elected President of the Russian Academy of Science
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On May 29 Vladimir Fortov was elected the 27th President of the Russian Academy of Science. Remarkably, besides being a renowned physicist, he is also a candidate master in chess!

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4NCL Impressions: No Country for Old Men - Part II
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4NCL Impressions: no country for old men - Part I of the story

GM Daniel Gormally annotates another game played at this year's 4NCL against a junior:

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FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki, Round 8 Odds
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Round 8 starts on May 30, 3 p.m. Moscow time:





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Chess Tactics
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Morozevich (2760) - Caruana (2774), 2013
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In a position of dynamic equality Alexander blundered terribly with 47.Nf1?? (see diagram). How much time do you need to find the winning continuation for Black?

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