⚪️#654 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Seirawan,Y
🔸Sosonko,G
🔸Bad Kissingen, 1981

White is slightly better due to the badly placed black king that obstructs the rook on a8. He should now create some activity before Black manages to coordinate his forces.
13.h3!
Seirawan prepares g2-g4-g5 in order to gain space and access to the e4-square for his knight.
13...h5
13...Bf8 14.Bxf8 Rxf8 15.g4 Be6 16.g5 Nd7 17.Bg4! White obtains some advantage.
14.g4! hxg4 15.hxg4
This pawn sacrifice is mainly based on the fact that the clearance of the h-file favors White, due to the disconnected black rooks.
15...Bxg4 16.Rxh8+ Bxh8 17.Be7!
Generally speaking, the side that possesses the initiative should play actively, creating new threats whenever possible. Here Black is faced with the double threat of 18 Rd8+ and 18 Bxf6.

⚪️#655 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Sasikiran,K
🔸Iljushin,A
🔸FIDE World Cup, Khanty Mansyisk, 2005

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 655
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A: B×e4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
Morteza, Gavin, Nikhil, Rachel, Michael

B: c5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
@Sophia_Peng, Zhenrui

C: c×d5 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#656 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hellsten,J
🔸Olesen,M
🔸Malmo, 1997

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 656
public poll

B: f4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
Morteza, @Benjamin28, Gavin, Nikhil, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, Rachel, Michael

A: e4 – 1
👍 11%
Zhenrui

C:Nde4
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

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🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Leningrad 1925

🔰 The 4th USSR Championship was held in Leningrad from August 11 - September 6, 1925. With some extra incentive provided by the chance that a good finish here could procure an invitation to the great Moscow international tournament held in November/December, the following players went into battle:

🔺Efim Bogoljubov Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky Sergey Nikolaevich von Freymann Solomon Borisovich Gotthilf Nikolay Dmitrievich Grigoriev Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky Anton Antonovich Kaspersky Arvid Kubbel Nikolay Nikolaevich Kutuzov Grigory Levenfish Vladimir Nenarokov Abram Isaakovich Rabinovich Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky Alexey Sergeevich Selezniev Alexander Sergeyevich Sergeiev Veniamin Sozin Boris Verlinsky Yakov S Vilner Nikolay Zubarev.
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🔰 Bogoljubov successfully defended his title, but was not as dominant as in the previous year. He started well enough with 12 of 14 to take a two-point lead over Levenfish, who had started with losses in the first two rounds. However, Bogoljubov then lost to Vilner and Verlinsky in successive rounds. This allowed Levenfish to draw within a half-point, but a critical round 17 loss restored Bogoljubov's full point lead, and the champ made sure by winning his remaining games.

🔰 With more Soviet players were now more familiar with the new hypermodern theories, the general playing level was rising and the competition getting tougher. Romanovsky, a dominant figure in previous tournaments, could only tie for 6th-8th places here. Verlinsky had an adventurous result. He defeated the top three finishers while scoring 7.5 points against the other nine players in the top half of the tournament, but could only score 4.5/10 against those in the bottom half. Had the tournament been restricted to just the top ten players, he would have won by a point and a half.

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