🔸Asian Nations Cup Rapid 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2375)
⚫️Nguyen,Duc Hoa (2490)
🔸1-0

24... Rf4??
An attempt to complicate the game in a worse position. Although White punished it with a simple tactic.
(24... Nf6 25. Bxe5 Qd7 +/-)
25. Bxe5 Rxe4 26. Bxe4 Bxe4 27. Qg4! Nf6 28. Bxf6 Bxf6 29. Rxe4 Qc6 30. Qg6 1-0

Mamedyarov wins his 4th game in #BielChess2018 to take a full point lead over Carlsen. The #WorldChampion , in turn, draws against MVL and maintains the 2nd place.

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🔹 51st Biel GM 2018- Round 7
🔹 PGN format

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GMs Jon Ludvig Hammer and Dmitry Andreikin share the 1st place in the #XtraconOpen with 8.5/10 points, but the Norwegian GM Hammer becomes the champion due to better tie-breaks.

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🔹 Xtracon Chess Open 2018
🔹 PGN format

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

16...g5!
A strong move by Gashimov. Now White's center collapses and he is lost.
17.Nc5 gxf4 18.gxf4 Bxf4-+

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

27.Re5!
Not allowing ...e5 which would solve a lot of problems for Black, as well as planning to apply more pressure on the e-file with Qe3 or Qe1. Black is so helpless that White can even play h2-h4 and g4-g5 without fear for his own king.
27...Nd7!?
The e-pawn is falling anyway so Black gives it up and hopes to get his knight to an active position.
28.Rxe6 Rfxe6 29.Rxe6 Rxe6 30.Nxe6+/-

⚪️#583 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Liew,J
🔸Torre,E
🔸Asian Team Championship, Dubai, 1986

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 583
public poll

C: Nce2 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
@MrAmrb, Jonas, Ramesh, Jayden, @SteveWongso, Javier, Rachel

A: a3 – 2
👍👍 18%
Jamal, Zhenrui

B: B×g6 – 2
👍👍 18%
@RichardPeng, George

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚪️#584 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Reinderman,D
🔸Van Oosterom,C
🔸Haarlem, 2009

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 584
public poll

B: b4 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 79%
@MrAmrb, Jonas, Ramesh, Jayden, @SteveWongso, Venkat, @Hamidhamidian, @RichardPeng, Jamal, Rachel, Zhenrui

C: Rfe1 – 2
👍 14%
@Benjamin1923, Javier

A: Qa4 – 1
👍 7%
George

👥 14 people voted so far.

✅ Chess History - Tournaments
🔘 Los Angeles 1963

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#LosAngeles_1963

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✅ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Los Angeles 1963

▪️In 1963 famous cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and his wife Jaqueline gave a cup through the Piatigorsky Foundation for a chess tournament that would include two grandmasters from the USSR and two grandmasters from the USA.
Four grandmasters from other countries filled out the playing list.

▪️ The final player line-up consisted of:
🔻 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔻 Paul Keres
🔻 Samuel Reshevsky
🔻 Pal Benko
🔻 Fridrik Olafsson
🔻 Svetozar Gligoric
🔻 Oscar Panno
🔻 Miguel Najdorf

▪️ The tournament ran from the 2nd of July to the 30th of July 1963 in Los Angeles, USA. The players met in a double round all-play-all and the joint winners Petrosian and Keres returned to the Soviet Union with more than half of the $10,000 prize fund offered by the Piatigorsky Foundation. This tournament was the strongest to be held in the USA after New York 1927.

💢 The main source for this collection was the First Piatigorsky Cup tournament book edited by Isaac Kashdan.
💢 The Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966) was the next tournament that contested this trophy.

✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download " Los Angeles 1963 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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🔘 Los Angeles 1963 Games Database
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✅ World top players in Los Angeles 1963