🔸Asian Nations Cup Rapid 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Ismagambetov,Anuar (2454)
⚫️Darini,Pouria (2568)
🔸½-½

25... Ne4?!
25... Qc4!
Attacking the f4 pawn while simultaneously defending e6. Now Black's threats such as ...Rf8, ...b4, and ...Nd5 are overwhelming.
A) 26. Be3 26... Nd5 27. Qg6 Nxc3 -+
B) 26. Qg6 Rg8 27. Qf7 Nxc2 28. Kxc2 Rg2 29. Rd2 b4 -+
C) 26. Rd4 Rf8 27. Rxc4 Rxf7 28. Rd4 Nc4 -+
26.Qg6 Raf8 27. Rxe4 R8f6 28. Qg4 d5 29. Red4 Kc8 =

🔸Asian Nations Cup Rapid 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Ismagambetov,Anuar (2454)
⚫️Darini,Pouria (2568)
🔸½-½

42... Nc4 ?
42... Nc2!+ 43. Kb1 Ne3! Kazakh GM could resign here:
A) 44. Qg8+ 44... Kb7 45. Rc1 Nc4 ——> R×b2 -+
B) 44. Rxe3 Qc2+ 45. Ka1 Qxb2#
43. Rxd5 Rf1 44. Rd8+ Qxd8 45. Qxc4+ Qc7 46. Qxa6+ Qb7 47. Qc4+ Qc7 48. Qa6+ Qb7 49. Qc4+ 1/2-1/2

Bu Xiangzhi beats Yu Yangyi in the 9th Danzhou Super GM tournament round 2 to catch J.C. Duda in the lead.
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🔹 9th Hainan Danzhou GM- Round 2
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The Superfinals of 71st Russian men’s championship and 68th Russian women’s championship will take place from 24th August till 6th September 2018 in Satka, Chelyabinsk Oblast.

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13-year-old Vincent Keymer has his 2nd GM norm and is co-leading the Xtracon Open with one round to go!
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🔹 Xtracon Chess Open 2018
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⚪️#579 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hector,J
🔸Koneru,H
🔸Wijk aan Zee, 2003

10.Qe3!
QUESTION: Why the queen move? Castling looks more normal. ANSWER: With the text, White increases his control over the e5-square and prevents Black from playing the freeing move ...e6-e5. Instead, after 10.0-0-0 e5 11.Qe3 exd4 12.Rxd4 Nc5 13.Rf4 Qh6 Black had no problems in K.Shirazi-M. Quinteros, Jakarta 1978.
10...c5 11.0-0-0 b6 12.Bb5!+/-
Once Black can put his bishop on b7 he will equalize. 12.Bb5 prevents this as 12...a6 13.Bxd7 Bxd7 14.dxc5 wins a pawn.

⚪️#580 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Short,N
🔸Giri,A
🔸Amsterdam, 2010

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.e3 e6 5.Qf3 c5 6.0-0-0 a6 7.Nge2 Qa5 8.Bxf6 Nxf6
9.g4!
ANSWER: This is the point of 8 Bxf6. White gets in g4-g5 a move quicker. That said, although White was successful in this game, I do not recommend this plan at all.
9...b5 10.g5 Nd7 11.Nxf4 cxd4 12.Ncxd5 exd5 13.Qxd5 Ra7 14.Bh3 with a complicated game.

⚫️#581 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gashimov,V
🔸Jonkman,H
🔸Antalya, 2004

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 581
public poll

A: g5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, Zhenrui, Matthew

C: a6 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
Ahmad, George

B: Ne7 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#582 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Pazos Gambarrotti,P
🔸Murugan,K
🔸Moscow Olympiad, 1994

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 582
public poll

C: Re5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, @RichardPeng, Rachel, Zhenrui

A: N×e6 – 2
👍👍 25%
George, Matthew

B: Nf3
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

Two World Champions - Tigran Petrosian & Mikhail Tal.
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The young Vasily Smyslov, in play v. Bondarevsky in the 5th round (USSR Championship 1940-September 9th) - a famous rook endgame..

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