⚫️#636 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gorelov,S
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Minsk, 1985

18...Qe7!
Predicting that the white knight will want to return to e5, Black prevents it.
19.cxb6?! axb6 20.a5 bxa5 21.bxa5 Bd6!
Black is ready to release his position with ...c6-c5.

⚫️#637 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Chesney,B
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Somerset, USA, 1986

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 637
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C: Ne7 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
Morteza, @Hh758, Jonas, Nikhil, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Rachel, George

B: a5 – 3
👍👍 25%
Vincent, Joseph, Zhenrui

A: Rb8
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚪️#638 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Salov,V
🔸Reykjavik, 1991

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 638
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B: Ne2 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
Raheleh, Jonas, Nikhil, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, George, Zhenrui

A: a3 – 3
👍👍👍 25%
Morteza, @RichardPeng, Rachel

C: Qa4 – 1
👍 8%
Joseph

👥 12 people voted so far.

Round 8 results and standings

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Rd 8 at Sinquefield Cup. All 5 games drawn by repetition (Mamedyarov-Carlsen went 58 moves). One more round to go. It will be Aronian-Grischuk, So-Caruana, Anand-Mamedyarov, Carlsen-Nakamura, and Karjakin - Vachier-Lagrave. Caruana leads with 5 out of 9. Four others with 4.5

Final round pairings! Do you think we will have a clear winner or play offs?

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🔹 6th Sinquefield Cup 2018 - Round 8
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🅾️#about_Harika_Dronavalli

💢 Harika Dronavalli
💢 Indian chess Grandmaster

🔰Harika Dronavalli is an Indian chess grandmaster She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.

🔘Full name: Dronavalli Harika
🔘Country: India
🔘Born: 12 January 1991 (age 27)
🔻Gorantla, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
🔘Title: Grandmaster (2011)
🔘FIDE rating: 2494 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2543 (November 2016)

🔰WGM (2004) and GM (2011). Harika is a bright young talent from India. Her achievements include conquering the world titles of World Youth Champion in 2006 (Girls Under-18) and U-14 Girls Champion in 2004. In 2007 Harika became the Women's Commonwealth Chess Champion. She added another feather to her cap, by becoming Women's World Junior Champion in 2008.
In 2011, Harika won her 3rd GM norm when she came second in the 1st Hangzhou Women's GM Tournament (2011) to become India's second female grandmaster. In August 2012, she came =3rd at the Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament 2012 with 7/9, half a point behind the joint leaders. She competed in the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated Indian WGM Soumya Swaminathan, Armenian GM Elina Danielian, Georgian IM and WGM Lela Javakhishvili, and Chinese GM Zhao Xue to reach the semi finals. There she met and lost to former Women's World Champion, Bulgarian GM Antoaneta Stefanova to bow out of the contest.

♦️A memorable game by Harika Dronavalli👇
▪️Tatev Abrahamyan vs Dronavalli Harika
▪️FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (2015), Sochi RUS, rd 1, Mar-17
▪️French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Variation (C05)

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💢 Tatev Abrahamyan - Dronavalli Harika, FWWChCh 2015. Sochi
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🔸15th Avicenna Cup A 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2525)
⚫️Hakemi,Arman (2245)
🔸1-0

A critical moment. Black wastes a lot of time on grabbing the white's pawns.
56... Qxg4??
Instead, he should have played sharply with 56... Qd2! 57. a5 e3 58. Ka4 e2 59. Bf2 Qd1 and now:
A) 60. Qb4 Qxd5 -/+
B) 60. a6?? Qf1 61. Bg3 Be5 -+
57.a5 Qxf5 58. a6 Qe5 59. a7 Qa1+ 60. Kb4 Bb2 61.Kb5 Qa3 62. Qa4 1-0