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🏆 GLC Chess Challenge (1986)

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The GLC Chess Challenge was the fourth and last in the biannual series of tournaments which started with the ... [more]

Player: Lajos Portisch

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Portisch vs J Mestel 0-1421986GLC Chess ChallengeE81 King's Indian, Samisch
2. G Flear vs Portisch  ½-½551986GLC Chess ChallengeE00 Queen's Pawn Game
3. Portisch vs Spassky  ½-½361986GLC Chess ChallengeD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. Speelman vs Portisch ½-½431986GLC Chess ChallengeD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
5. Portisch vs Plaskett 1-0611986GLC Chess ChallengeA17 English
6. Chandler vs Portisch  0-1361986GLC Chess ChallengeB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
7. Portisch vs Short ½-½341986GLC Chess ChallengeA16 English
8. Larsen vs Portisch 1-0281986GLC Chess ChallengeB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
9. Portisch vs Nunn  1-0421986GLC Chess ChallengeE92 King's Indian
10. Dlugy vs Portisch  ½-½241986GLC Chess ChallengeE15 Queen's Indian
11. Portisch vs Vaganian  ½-½111986GLC Chess ChallengeD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
12. Portisch vs Polugaevsky  ½-½131986GLC Chess ChallengeE15 Queen's Indian
13. Ribli vs Portisch  ½-½141986GLC Chess ChallengeE17 Queen's Indian
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Still one of the biggest upset wins in international tournament history.
Dec-01-19  spingo: Aside from Flear's result, which I believe coincided with his marriage, Plaskett's performance was considered unusual by the chess press. Thirteen games, +5 -8 and no draws. The kind of results people had 100 years earlier.

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