85. Nxh5??
White must stop the king from penetrating:
85. Ke4! Kc5 86. Nd3+ Kc4 87. Nf4 Ra3 88.Ne2 =
85... Kd3 86.Nf4+ Kd2 87. h5 Rb4 0-1
White must stop the king from penetrating:
85. Ke4! Kc5 86. Nd3+ Kc4 87. Nf4 Ra3 88.Ne2 =
85... Kd3 86.Nf4+ Kd2 87. h5 Rb4 0-1
15...Nb8!
Heading to b4 via c6. The knight on d7 is clearly misplaced. With 15 h4 White intends to start an attack on the kingside, but the game shows that this plan was unworkable.
16.h5 h6 17.dxc5?!
White opens the long diagonal for his bishop with the hope of bringing his knight to f6 in an attack. The serious drawback to this plan is that the b3-pawn becomes weak.
17...bxc5 18.Nh2 Nc6 19.Ng4
In this position, White's plan is Nf1 and to bring his rook into play along the third rank, with the idea of swinging it over to the kingside to support a kingside attack. The correct move, therefore, is:
19...Rab8!=/+
Black activates his rook and prevents White from going about his plan because the b3-pawn would hang.
Heading to b4 via c6. The knight on d7 is clearly misplaced. With 15 h4 White intends to start an attack on the kingside, but the game shows that this plan was unworkable.
16.h5 h6 17.dxc5?!
White opens the long diagonal for his bishop with the hope of bringing his knight to f6 in an attack. The serious drawback to this plan is that the b3-pawn becomes weak.
17...bxc5 18.Nh2 Nc6 19.Ng4
In this position, White's plan is Nf1 and to bring his rook into play along the third rank, with the idea of swinging it over to the kingside to support a kingside attack. The correct move, therefore, is:
19...Rab8!=/+
Black activates his rook and prevents White from going about his plan because the b3-pawn would hang.
16...h5!
Preparing to bring the knight to the e5-square via g4.
Of course, 17.h3 doesn't prevent this maneuver as Black would just play Ng4! anyway.
17.Nc4 Ng4 18.a4 Rdf8 19.Qe2?! Nce5 20.a5 Nxc4! 21.Bxc4 Ne5=
Preparing to bring the knight to the e5-square via g4.
Of course, 17.h3 doesn't prevent this maneuver as Black would just play Ng4! anyway.
17.Nc4 Ng4 18.a4 Rdf8 19.Qe2?! Nce5 20.a5 Nxc4! 21.Bxc4 Ne5=
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🔸Alexander Onischuk
🔸Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster
🔰 Alexander Onischuk is a Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
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🔘Born: September 3, 1975 (age 42)
🔺Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title: Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating: 2647 (September 2018)
Peak rating: 2701 (July 2010)
🔰 Originally from Ukraine, Onischuk immigrated to the United States in 2001. He represented Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad in 1994, 1996 and 1998, and has played for U.S. in this event since 2004. Onischuk won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2006.
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🔸Alexander Onischuk
🔸Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster
🔰 Alexander Onischuk is a Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
🔘Country:
🔻Soviet Union (until 1991)
🔻Ukraine (1991–2001)
🔻United States (since 2001)
🔘Born: September 3, 1975 (age 42)
🔺Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title: Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating: 2647 (September 2018)
Peak rating: 2701 (July 2010)
🔰 Originally from Ukraine, Onischuk immigrated to the United States in 2001. He represented Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad in 1994, 1996 and 1998, and has played for U.S. in this event since 2004. Onischuk won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2006.
🔰Onischuk finished second, after Magnus Carlsen, in the Grandmaster Tournament at the Biel Chess Festival in 2007. He scored 5½/9 points like Carlsen, but lost in the tie-breaker match held after the regular rounds finished.
🔰In the fall of 2012, Onischuk became the head coach at Texas Tech University. Under his coaching, the Texas Tech University Chess Program has won the 2015-2016 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and qualified five times for the Final Four.
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58... Bf7?
Black should have centralized his queen and attacked the pawn on b2 with 58...Qe5!
59. Qg4+ Ke4 60. Qe2+ Kf5 61. Qxb5+ Kf6 62. a4 Qd4 63. Kf3 Qd1+ 64. Ne2 Qf1+ 65. Ke3 Qh3+ 66. Kd2 Qh6+ 67. Kc3 Qh3+ 68. Kb4 +-
Black should have centralized his queen and attacked the pawn on b2 with 58...Qe5!
59. Qg4+ Ke4 60. Qe2+ Kf5 61. Qxb5+ Kf6 62. a4 Qd4 63. Kf3 Qd1+ 64. Ne2 Qf1+ 65. Ke3 Qh3+ 66. Kd2 Qh6+ 67. Kc3 Qh3+ 68. Kb4 +-