Tigran Petrosian

Tigran Petrosyan (Arm. Տիգրան Վարդանի Պետրոսյան, 17 June 1929, Tiflis - 13 August 1984, Moscow) - Soviet chess player, 9th world champion from 1963 to 1969, international grandmaster (1952), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1960), PhD in philosophy, four times champion of the USSR (1959, 1961, 1969, 1975), three-time champion of Moscow (1951, 1956) (from V.V. Lomonosov). (1968 (with V. Simagin), 1968 (with D. Bronstein)), chess theorist and journalist, editor of the monthly Chess Moscow (1963-1966), founder and chief editor of the weekly "64". (1968—1977). Nine times winner of chess Olympiads as part of the USSR team. For his art of defense he was nicknamed "Iron Tigran". Ten times in a row (from 1953 to 1980) he played in contests and world championship matches, including twice (1966, 1969) as the reigning world champion. Some sources call him the most difficult to beat player in chess history. 24. ... Nxe5

25.Nxg4 hxg4

26.e4 Bxd6

27.Qe3 Nd7

28.Bxd6 Qxd6

29.Td4 e5

30.Td2 f5¡

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