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Happened Today in the Chess World - Jan 3, 2024

GLOBE-TRAINER


World Team Championship, Warsaw 2013: GM Merab Gagunashvili 
Photo: Przemyslaw Jahr / wikimedia commons Source: wikipedia.org

Today is the birthday of Grandmaster Merab Gagunashvili, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, on January 4, 1985.
Runner-up at the World Junior Championship in 2001, Gagunashvili became a GM at age 17. He was Georgian Champion twice, in 2004 and 2010, and represented his country in four Olympiads.
Merab reached his peak rating of 2625 Elo points in April 2007.
He is a FIDE Trainer and coached players in Turkey, Iraq, and Kuwait. Currently, Gagunashvili has his own online chess academy.

Merab Gagunashvili (2576)-John Van der Wiel (2501), Gröningen 2008
White to move

 

28.Nh5! (Black could have prolonged the agony by playing 28...gxh5 29.Bxh5 Qe8 30.Bxf7+ Qxf7 31.Nxf7 Kxf7 32.g4, but the game is over anyway)
28...Qb6+ 29.Kh2 Nxg4+ 30.hxg4 Qd4 31.Rxf7! Qe5+ 32.Kh3 1-0
Black resigned as now it's mate in two: 32...e6 33.Rxf8 Rxf8 34.Qh7#





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