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🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Final Game 2
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½
📘10.Bg5
The main line and popular move. With the idea of
(Nc3-B.f6-e4) controling the center.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Final Game 2
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½
📘10...a5

With the idea of transfering the Knight to the b4 outpost. Karpov has introduced this idea, which was quickly spotted by high-level players.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Final Game 2
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½
📘 17...Be8

With the idea of playing c5 and putting pressure on the white center.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Final Game 2
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½
📘 58...Nc5

Aronian missed an easy win. He could have played Ng3!-e2-c3 and eventually, White had to give his bishop in return for the a2 pawn.
for example:

58...Ng3! 59.Nf6 Ne2+ 60.Kd2 Nc3 61.Bf7 Ne4 -+
🔹🔺 The interesting and tactical moments
of the Isle of Man International 2017 (Douglas ENG) Round 1 🔹🔺
IOM Chess Round 1: Magnus Carlsen looks a bit bored. He's been wandering round looking at other games.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Magnus Carlsen 2827
⚫️Bardur Birkisson 2164
🔺1-0

📘22.R.a8! +- R.a8 23.Q.c6 Nc7 24.B.f7+ Kh8 25.Q.e4 +-
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Magnus Carlsen 2827
⚫️Bardur Birkisson 2164
🔺1-0

31.B.g7!+ K.g7 32.Qe5+ Kf7 33.Q.e3 +-
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Vishy Anand 2794
⚫️Mark Esserman 2453
🔺1-0
📘13.Bd3!

With the idea of Qe2, putting more pressure over the pawn on a6 and also transferring the bishop to the strong a2-g8 diagonal and having more control of the center.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Vishy Anand 2794
⚫️Mark Esserman 2453
🔺1-0
📘 22.Nf1!

With the idea of improving the position of the knight by sending it to e3 and having more control over the center.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Vishy Anand 2794
⚫️Mark Esserman 2453
🔺1-0
📘 22...Ne8!
With the idea of Nc7 and b5! creating counter attack in the queenside.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Das Neelotpal 2448
⚫️Hikaru Nakamura 2781
🔺0-1
📘 13...Bd8!

With the idea of sending the bishop to the good diagonal a7-g1 after the exchange in the center.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Das Neelotpal 2448
⚫️Hikaru Nakamura 2781
🔺0-1