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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 581
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A: g5 – 5
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C: a6 – 2
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Ahmad, George
B: Ne7 – 1
👍 13%
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A: g5 – 5
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@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, Zhenrui, Matthew
C: a6 – 2
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Ahmad, George
B: Ne7 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 582
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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.
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.
8th USSR People's Spartakiad, in Moscow, during July 1983.
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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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"In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master."
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