⚪️#29 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Franco Ocampos,Zenon (2486)
🔸Anquandah,Francis Eric (1992)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 29
public poll

A) 42.d5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%
@Defence1985, @soheil_hooshdaran, Gavin, Jahanbakhsh, Venkat, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, Hansika

C) 42.h4 – 1
👍 9%
Vincent

B) 42.Ke3
▫️ 0%

👥 11 people voted so far.

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Tilburg Fontys 1997

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🔷 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Tilburg Fontys 1997
🔹 Netherlands
🔹 September 26 - October 10
🔹 CHAMPION: Peter Svidler| 8/11(+5 -0 =6) |

🔰The Tilburg chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in Tilburg, Netherlands. It was established in 1977 and ran continuously through 1994 under the sponsorship of Interpolis, an insurance company. Fontys Hogescholen shortly revived the tournament series from 1996 to 1998, when the last edition was played. Since 1994 there is another annual chess tournament taking place in Tilburg, which has the name De Stukkenjagers, the field is generally much weaker than the traditional Tilburg tournament.

🔰 The 2nd Annual Fontys International Chess Tournament was a Category XVII event held in Tilburg, The Netherlands from September 26th to October 10th, 1997. 12 of the world's top players, including the World Champion, competed in a round robin format.
The participants were (in order of Elo):
🔅 Garry Kasparov (2820),
🔅 Vladimir Kramnik (2770),
🔅 Alexei Shirov (2700),
🔅 Michael Adams (2680),
🔅 Judit Polgar (2670),
🔅 Loek van Wely (2665),
🔅 Joel Lautier (2660),
🔅 Peter Svidler (2660),
🔅 Peter Leko (2635),
🔅 Jeroen Piket (2630),
🔅 Alexander Onischuk (2625),
🔅 Tal Shaked (2500).

The tournament was a major landmark for young grandmasters Kramnik and Svidler as they tied with Kasparov for first place with 8/11, a full point above the rest of the strong field.

♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
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▪️ Review our selected game from Tilburg Fontys which Svidler has won Kasparov in round 7!!👇

Peter Svidler vs Garry Kasparov
Tilburg Fontys (1997), Tilburg NED, rd 7, Oct-04
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50)
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🔸Russian Rapid Team Championship 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Timofeev,Artyom (2580)
⚫️Lugovskoy,Maxim (2428)
🔸0-1

32.g3? [Missing a golden opportunity.]

[The well-placed knight on e5 allows White to execute an elegant combination. 32.Rxd6!+– Rxd6 33.Qc7 double attack 33...Qf6 (33...Qd8 34.Qxf7+ Kh8 35.Rc1 Rc7 35...Be6 36.Qxe6 Rxe6 37.Nf7+ Kg7 38.Nxd8+–) 34.g4! The bishop is trapped.]

32...Be6+/= [32...Bxe5 33.dxe5 Be6=]

⚪️#29 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Korobov,Anton (2685)
🔸Perez Ponsa,Federico (2548)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

20.Bd1! [A powerful regrouping in order to set up a dangerous queen-bishop battery on the b1–h7 diagonal. The white's threat is so scary that the Black threat of ...c5 can be ignored.]

[20.Rfe1 c3 21.Bxb5 Qxb5 22.bxc3 Qc6 23.Na6 Rbc8 24.Nb4 Qc4 25.Nxd5 Nxd5 26.Qe2 Qxe2 27.Rxe2 c5 28.Rb7 cxd4 29.cxd4 Ra8 (29...Bxa3 30.Rxa7 Ra8 31.Rb7²) 30.a4 Rfb8 31.Rxb8+ Rxb8=; 20.Qg4 Kh8 21.Rfc1 Rfc8 22.b4 cxb3 23.Bd1 b2 24.Rxb2 Qe8 25.Rb3 Nd7 26.Qe4 Rd8 27.Bc2 Qg8 28.Rcb1 Bc6 29.Rxb8 Rxb8 30.Rxb8 Nxb8 31.Qd3 Nd7 32.Qa6 Qa8 33.Nxd7 Bxd7 34.a4 Bc6 35.Qd3 Qg8 36.a5]

20...f5 [20...c3? 21.bxc3 Bxf1 22.Bc2 (22.Kxf1 Nc4) 22...f5 23.exf6 Bxf6 24.Rxf1 Kf7 25.Qg6+ Ke7 26.Re1 Although White is an exchange down, the black exposed king and weak pawns give him promising compensation.]

21.exf6 Nxf6 22.Qxe6+ Qxe6 23.Nxe6 Rfc8 24.Re1 Nbd5 25.Ne5 Bd6 26.Bf3 Re8 27.Nc5 Red8 28.g4 Re8 29.Kg2 Bf8 30.g5 hxg5 31.Bxg5 Kh7 32.Rbd1 Rbd8 33.a4 Bxc5 34.axb5 Bb4 35.Rh1 c3 36.bxc3 Nxc3 37.Rc1 Rxd4 38.Nc6 Bc5 39.Rxc3 1–0

⚪️#29 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Franco Ocampos,Zenon (2486)
🔸Anquandah,Francis Eric (1992)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

42.d5 [42.Ke3 Nf6 43.a3 Nd5+ 44.Kf3 Kf7 45.g4 Ke6 46.Ba5 Nf6 47.Kf4 Nd5+ 48.Kf30.00/32; 42.h4 Nf6 43.a3 (43.Ke3?? Nd5+–+) 43...Kf7 44.Ke3 Nd5+ 45.Kf3 Ke6 46.Ba5 Ne7 47.Kf4 Nd5+ 48.Kg5 Kf7 49.Bd2= (49.h5? gxh5 50.Kxf5 Ne3+ 51.Kg5 Nxg2 52.Kxh5 Ke6³) ]

42...Kd7 43.Kd4 Nf2 44.a3 [¹44.Ke3]

44...Kc7 45.Be1 [45.Ke5 Kd7 46.Kf6+–]

45...Ne4 46.Ke5 Kd7 47.Bb4 Nf2 48.Kf6 f4 49.Kxg6 [49.h4! Nd3 50.Kxg6 Nxb4 51.axb4 a5 52.bxa5 b4 53.a6 b3 54.a7 b2 55.a8Q b1Q+ 56.Kg5 f3 57.Qc6++–]

49...f3 50.gxf3 Nxh3 51.Kf5 Nf2 52.Ke5 Nd3+ 53.Kd4 Nb2 54.f4 Nc4 55.f5 a5 56.Bc5 Nd2 57.Kd3 Nf3 58.f6 Ke8 59.Ke4 Ng5+ 60.Kf5 Nf7 61.Ke6 Ng5+ 62.Ke5 Nf7+ 63.Kd4 Nd8 64.Be7 Nb7 65.Ke5 Kf7 66.Kd4 Ke8 67.d6 a4 68.Kc3 Nc5 69.Kb4 Nd7 70.Kxb5 Kf7 71.Kxa4 Ke6 72.Kb5 Nxf6 73.Bxf6 Kxd6
1–0

⚪️#30 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Vajda,Levente (2551)
🔸Alfaro,William (2163)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 31
public poll

B) 13.Nc2 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 77%
Jonas, Gavin, @Afshin3333, @SteveWongso, Vincent, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, Hansika

A) 13.Nde2 – 2
👍 15%
@MerissaWongso, Rachel

C) 13.Nf3 – 1
👍 8%
Zhenrui

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚫️#30 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Al Ghamdi,Ahmed M (2126)
🔸Bekker-Jensen,Simon (2482)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 30
public poll

B) 69...Nh5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
Jonas, Gavin, @Afshin3333, Vincent, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Zhenrui

A) 69...Kf4 – 4
👍👍👍👍 31%
@SteveWongso, @MerissaWongso, @Somebody_Sophia, Rachel

C) 69...Ne4 – 1
👍 8%
Srikar

👥 13 people voted so far.