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🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 2
⚪️Inna Gaponenko 2437
⚫️Nigel Short 2698
🔺0-1
📘21...c4? 22.Be2?

White missed an opportunity of sacrificing a bishop with strong attack. after that black must play accurately for a draw.

22.B.g6! h.g6 23.Rdh1 With plenty threats.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 2
⚪️Evgeny Degtiarev 2412
⚫️Rustam Kasimdzhanov 2676
🔺0-1
📘32.Nd2?? R.d2! 1-0

⭐️ Rustam Kasimdzhanov is an Uzbek chess Grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05)
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 2
⚪️Boris Gelfand 2737
⚫️Daniel Fischer 2100
🔺1-0
📘9.Nd2
One of the interesting plans of this form with the idea of e4-e5, which introduced by Paul Keres.

⭐️Paul Keres is nicknamed the crown prince of the chess, as he narrowly missed a chance at a world championship match on five occasions.
Keres has become the champion of the Soviet Union for three times.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 2
⚪️Roland Loos 2393
⚫️Jan Timman 2573
🔺0-1
📘 14...a5
Black tries to restrict white pieces by placing their pawns on black squares.

⭐️Jan Timman, 65, has been 9 times Dutch champion and at one point was also known to be the best non-Soviet player in the world.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 2
⚪️Ivan Sokolov 2603
⚫️B Vignesh 2260
🔺1-0
📘 7.Nd2
Aron Nimzowitsch was the first one who played this form of Benoni. The main idea is playing e5 by the moves Nc4,a4,e4 and f4. At the end usually white bring his queenside rook into the game via a3. One of the Black idea to counter this is to play Nbd7 with the idea of countering Nc4 with Nb6.
🔹🔺 The interesting and tactical moments
of the Final World Cup 2017 Round 3 and 4 🔹🔺
🔸Final World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Levon Aronian
⚫️Liren Ding
🔺½-½
📘 18.a4
With the idea of a5, getting space in the queenside.
🔸Final World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½
📘 5...d.c4
This is the line that Aronian has lots of experience in.
🔸Final World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½
📘 12.Qe2
For the first time, this move was played in the game of Aronian against Grischuk in 2010; for improving the position of the queen and making a connection between the rooks.
🔸Final World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½
📘 14.Ng3
Grischuk in the same position against Aronian, played a3 for getting more space in the queenside and just after that played Ng3 for the kingside attack.
⚪️ #33 (Strategy - White To Move)
📕According to the principle of worst piece we should find out which piece is our worst one and try to either activate or exchange it. So...
1.Bd3 with the idea of Be4 to put enormous pressure on black's queenside.