🔸Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Duda,Jan-Krzysztof (2737)
⚫️Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2757)
🔸½-½

51. Kf3?
Missing a golden opportunity to win the game.
(51. g5! fxg5 52. hxg5 hxg5 53. Qc1 Qc6 54. Ra6 Qxc5 55. Qh1+ Kg8 56. Ra8+ +-)
51... Qc6! 52. Na4 Bxc4! 53. bxc4 Rxc4 54. Qb1 Rxa4 55. Rxa4 Qxa4 56.Qd3 Qa1 57. Kg2 Qc1 58. h5 Qf4 1/2-1/2

🔸Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Giri,Anish (2782)
⚫️Duda,Jan-Krzysztof (2737)
🔸½-½

21. Qh4?!
21. h4!
Creating the immediate threat of f4-f5.
21...h6 22.f5
A) 22...hxg5 23. f6+ Kg8 24.hxg5
B) 22...Rg8 23. fxe6 hxg5 24.Nxd5
21... h6 22. Nxe6+ 22... fxe6 23. Qxd8 Rexd8 24. Rde1 d4 25. Nxb5 d3 26. axb4 d2+ 27. Kb1 dxe1=Q+ 28. Rxe1=

🔸Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Kovalev,Vladislav (2655)
⚫️Kramnik,Vladimir (2792)
🔸½-½

30... Nb5?
Looks like Black is doing fine, except that White has a nice tactical continuation at his disposal.
Better is 30... Re6= or 30...Rf4
31. Bf6! Qxf6 32. Qxe4 Nc3
Black was depending on this fork...
33.Qf3! Qxf3 34.Rb6+!
The point of the combination that started with 31.Bf6!. White wins the exchange.
34...Kh5 35. gxf3 Nxa2 36. Rc6 Nb4 37. Rxc5 +-

🔸Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2757)
⚫️Meier,Georg (2628)
🔸1-0

22.Qh5!
White calmly blockades black's h-pawn, before playing g5. Weaker is 22.g5 h5+/=.
22...Rh8 23.g5 h×g5 24.Q×g5+ Kf8 25.Qf6 R×h2 26.Rg7! Be8 27.Bh7! 1-0

Magnus Carlsen wins his second game in the #BielChess against MVL. A great start for the World Champion .

🔹 51st Biel GM 2018- Round 2
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⚪️#569 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Sadler,M
🔸Kovachev,D
🔸Oslo, 2011

24.d4!
A typical move, restricting the bishop on g2 and preparing to bring the knight on a6 into play.
24...d5
24...g5 25.Rdg1+/-
25.Qxe5 Bc7 26.Qh5 h2 27.f4 Rxf4 28.Qxh2!+-

⚪️#570 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tseshkovsky,V
🔸Dvoretzky,M
🔸Riga, 1975

21.Bd2!
A lovely move which both stops ...Nf5 and also increases White's activity a little by unmasking the e-file, activating White's rook on e1.
21...Bxf3
Black switches his plan.
22.Nxf3 Ng6 23.Rxe8+ Rxe8 24.Nd4

⚫️#571 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Ostmoe,G
🔸Sadler,M
🔸Oslo, 2011

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 571
public poll

B: Qb4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
Jonas, Nikhil, Ramesh, Venkat, Saghana, Rachel, Zhenrui, Matthew

A: Re5 – 1
👍 11%
@SinaKhansharifan

C: f6
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

⚪️#572 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Adhiban,B
🔸Sadler,M
🔸Wijk aan Zee, 2012