51.Rc2 [A move without any serious threat.]
[51.Re1! A correct move to get the advantage. White intends to transfer his king to the queenside. 51...Rcd7 (51...f6 52.Re6+ Rxe6 53.Rxe6+ Kd7 54.Rxf6+–) 52.Kc3! Rc7 53.Kb4 g5 (53...Rxe5 54.fxe5+; 53...Rcd7 54.Kb5 Rc7 55.Rxe7 Rxe7 56.Rxe7 Kxe7 57.Kc6+–; 53...Red7?? 54.Re6+ fxe6 55.Rxe6#) 54.Rd1! gxf4 55.gxf4 Rc8 (55...Rxe5 56.fxe5+ Kxe5 57.d6 Rd7 58.c5 bxc5+ 59.Kxc5 Rd8 60.d7 Kf4 61.Kc6 Kxf3 62.Kc7 Rg8 63.d8Q Rxd8 64.Rxd8 h4 65.Kb7 h3 66.Kxa7 h2 67.Rh8 Kg2 68.Kb6 h1Q 69.Rxh1 Kxh1 70.a7) 56.Rxf5 Rec7 57.Rc1 Rh8 58.Re1 Rd7 (58...Rhc8 59.Rf6+ Kd7 60.Rxf7+ Kd8 61.Rf8+ Kd7 62.Rxc8 Rxc8 63.Rg1+–) 59.Rf6+ Kc7 60.c5 bxc5+ (60...Rxd5 61.Rxf7+ Rd7 62.cxb6+ axb6 63.Rc1+ Kd6 (63...Kd8 64.a7+–) 64.Rd1++–) 61.Kxc5 Kd8 62.Rb1 Ke7 63.Rc6 h4 64.d6+ Kf6 65.Rc7 Rdd8 66.Rxa7+–; 51.R2e3 Rcd7 52.Re1 Rc7 53.R1e2 Rcd7 54.R2e3 Rc7 55.Re1 Rcd7 56.Kc3 Rc7 57.Kb4±]
51...Rc5 52.Rxe7 Kxe7 53.Re2+ Kd7 54.Ke5 Ke7 55.Kd4+ Kd7 56.Ke5 Ke7 57.Kd4+ ½–½

⚪️#8 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Narayanan,S.L (2573)
🔸Philippe,Guillaume (2358)
🔸57th World Juniors 2018 Manavgat TUR 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 8
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B: Bc4 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
@aminjabbari400, @SteveWongso, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, Atharva, Zhenrui

A: Nd5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 30%
Nikhil, @RichardPeng, Alan

C: dxe5 – 1
👍 10%
Dariush

👥 10 people voted so far.

⚪️#8 (Endgame-White to Move)
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🔸FIDE World Junior and Girls Under 20 Ch

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 8
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A: Bd3 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
@aminjabbari400, Nikhil, @SteveWongso, Dariush, Esfandiar, @RichardPeng, @kaudk, @EhsAn_0123, Michael, Zhenrui, Alan

C: Kc1 – 4
👍👍👍 27%
España 🇪🇸, Morteza, Kenneth, @Sophia_Peng

B: Rc6
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

Congratulations to Jan-Krzysztof Duda 🇵🇱!!! 🎊😃🎊

He came back from a three-point deficit to score another amazing upset and advance to the #speedchess semifinals!

Matchups and pairings

Grischuk wins game two as Black with some nice positional and tactical play.
Duda is now down 0-2 and struggling to find his footing against the #speedchess master Grischuk!

Even super-GMs blunder their queens! 😲

Even Duda has to laugh at this #speedchess error!

Two excellent wins in a row for Duda close the match to one point! Here he played a fine attack and ensuing endgame as Black. 💪

Grischuk leads 4-3 in #speedchess.

4-4! Duda comes back from being three games down and can't help but grin as he scores another #speedchess win! 😁

Grischuk wins the final 5|1 game with a nice attack as White and takes the lead again: 5-4!

From -5 to +10, Duda turns this dead-lost game around as White and again levels the match at 7-7 in #speedchess! 📈

Is that the #speedchess match?!

You can see Duda's anguish as he lets this game get away from him!

It's not over yet!!!

Duda finds an amazing checkmate to close within a game and get a chance to take this #speedchess match to overtime!

O.M.G!!! 😘

The players are so hyped-up on adrenaline, they can't keep track of the clock in this chaotic final #speedchess game!

What a stunner!

Super-GM, 20-year-old chess deity, and "most hated man in Russia" according to Daniel Rensch will (like all of us) still always be mama's little boy. 😍

#speedchess

♦️ GilbertSunNews has report about Steve in November 2017
♦️ Read more about this report in GilbertSunNews’s website:👇

♻️ http://gilbertsunnews.com/gilbert-boy-is-king-of-chess/ ♻️
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🔸 Mikhail Chigorin
🔸 Russian Chess Master
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#about_Chigorin

🔸 Mikhail Chigorin
🔸 Russian Chess Master

🔰 Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times.

🔘 Full name: Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin
🔘 Country: Russian Empire
🔘 Born: 12 November 1850
🔺 Gatchina, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: January 25, 1908 (aged 57)
🔺 Lublin, Lublin Governorate
🔺 Russian Empire (Congress Poland)

🔰 Chigorin was born in Gatchina but moved to nearby Saint Petersburg some time later. His father worked in the Okhtensk gunpowder works. Chigorin's parents died young and Chigorin entered the Gatchinsk Orphans' Institute at the age of 10. He became serious about chess uncommonly late in life; his school teacher taught him the moves at the age of 16, but he did not take to the game until around 1874, having first finished his studies before commencing a career as a government officer.

Once smitten with the game, he terminated his employment and started life as a chess professional. In 1876, he started a chess magazine, Chess Sheet, which he edited until 1881 (only 250 subscribers in all of Russia). He played a series of matches with established masters Emanuel Schiffers (1878–1880) and Semyon Alapin (1880) and notched up a large plus score against each. It was not long after that he was regarded as the best player in the city and possibly the whole of Russia.

His first international tournament was Berlin 1881, where he was equal third (+10−5=1) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne. This event included 17 master competitors.

♦️ A memorable game by Mikhail Chigorin against Steinitz in WCCH match 1892 which named "Much to his Chigorin" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Mikhail Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892), Havana CUB, rd 1, Jan-01
▪️ Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Slow Variation (C52)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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