⚪️#657 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Bujakevich,A
🔸Kritz,L
🔸Moscow, 1996

Already in the opening, we are faced with the choice of diagonals for our bishops. Here White is about to develop his remaining bishop. Ideas like 12 Bg5, or perhaps 12 f3 followed by Be3, come to mind. However, there is another, more powerful diagonal.
12.b3!
Intending Bb2 in order to seize the long diagonal, which is of great importance when there are no central pawns on it.
12...Rfe8
12...Ng4 13.Nd5! c6 24.Bb2 with strong pressure.
13.Bb2 Bf8 14.Rad1
White slowly reinforces his position, aware that the opponent can't undertake any active measures.

⚪️#658 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Efimenko,Z
🔸Neverov,V
🔸Ukrainian Championship, Rivne, 2005

In open positions with pawns on both flanks, the bishop tends to outshine the knight. Here White also commands the open d-file, and the black queenside pawns are weak. How to progress?
30.Be2!
The bishop is regrouped to the long diagonal, where it will control more squares.
30...Rc6
Heading for c7 in order to protect the seventh rank.
30...Nf6 31.a5! Rb4 32.Qd6 with strong pressure on the a6-pawn.
31.Qe5
No hurry. Efimenko lets his bishop glance at the a6-pawn for one more move while improving the queen.
31...Nf6 32.Bf3 Rc7 33.Rd6!
Activating the rook and creating the threat of 34 Rxa6.
33...Nd7 34.Qc3 c4
Now there arises a strong passed pawn; however, Black lacked a good defence against 35 Qc4 or 35 Qa5.
35.b4+-

⚪️#659 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Stein,L
🔸Schweber,S
🔸Mar del Plata, 1966

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 659
public poll

C: f4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
Nikhil, Evan, @Sophia_Peng, Rachel, Michael, Zhenrui, Alan, Sanjana

A: Bc1 – 3
👍👍👍 25%
@EhsanKhoeini, Hajjy, @Jarullah

B: Ra2 – 1
👍 8%
@RichardPeng

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚫️#660 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Raaste,E
🔸Yemelin,V
🔸St. Petersburg, 1996

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 660
public poll

A: Nf6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 70%
Nikhil, Evan, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, Yiyi, Rachel, Alan

C: Be7 – 2
👍👍 20%
Hajjy, Zhenrui

B: Kh7 – 1
👍 10%
Sanjana

👥 10 people voted so far.

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💠 Reuben Fine
🔹 American chess grandmaster
🔹 Psychologist, University professor, and Chess Author

🔰Reuben Fine was an American chess grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology. He was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the mid 1930s until his retirement from chess in 1951.

🔘Full name: Reuben Fine
🔘Country: United States
🔘Born: October 11, 1914
🔺New York City
🔘Died: March 26, 1993 (aged 78)
🔺New York City
🔘Title: Grandmaster

🔰 Fine was born in the Bronx to Jacob and Bertha (Nedner) Fine, poor Russian Jews. He was an only child, and raised by his mother alone from the age of two. An uncle taught him chess when he was eight.
Fine's best result was his equal first in the AVRO 1938 chess tournament, one of the strongest tournaments of all time. After the death of world champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946, Fine was one of six players invited to compete for the World Championship in 1948. He declined the invitation, however, and virtually retired from serious competition around that time, although he did play a few events until 1951.

🔰 Fine won five medals (four gold) in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S. Open Chess Championship all seven times he entered (1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1940, 1941). He was the author of several chess books that are still popular today, including important books on the endgame, opening, and middlegame.

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🔸French Defense: Winawer. Advance Variation (C17)

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