⚪️#33 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Lopez Martinez,Josep Manuel (2581)
🔸Guzman,Christopher (2283)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 33
public poll

B) 30.Bb4 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
@Afshin3333, Vincent, @YaminiG, @MerissaWongso, Saghana, @AryanLeekha

A) 30.h4 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 40%
Alexander, @Sophia_Peng, Pranav Eswar, Zhenrui

C) 30.Be1
▫️ 0%

👥 10 people voted so far.

⚪️#33 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Georgiadis,Nico (2522)
🔸Draskovic,Luka (2449)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 33
public poll

A) 40.Rh6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
España 🇪🇸, @Afshin3333, Vincent, @YaminiG, Srikar, Diego, Zhenrui

C) 40.Bf5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍 42%
@MerissaWongso, Alexander, Saghana, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha

B) 40.Rh1
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

♦️ Today is birthday of Marie Sebag!!
French chess grandmaster

❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday Dear Marie !! 👏👏👏👏
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#Short

🔸 Nigel Short
🔸 English chess grandmaster, Chess writer
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#Short

🔸 Nigel Short
🔸 English chess grandmaster, Chess writer

🔰 Nigel David Short is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from January 1988 to July 1989.
In 1993 Nigel Short became the first English player to play a World Chess Championship match, when he qualified to play Garry Kasparov in the World Chess Championship 1993 in London (Kasparov won, 12½ to 7½). As of February 2018, he is the oldest player ranked among FIDE's top 100 players and is ranked No. 65.

🔰 Chess achievements of Nigel Short:👇
IM (1979)
GM (1984)
British Champion (1984, 1987, 1998)
English Champion (1991)
European Union Champion (2001)
Commonwealth Champion (2006 & 2008)
Candidate (1985, 1988, 1991, 1994 (PCA))
World Championship Challenger (PCA) (1993)

🔘 Full name Nigel David Short
🔘 Country England
🔘 Born 1 June 1965 (age 53)
🔺 Leigh, England
🔘 Title Grandmaster (1984)
🔘 FIDE rating 2652 (October 2018)
🔺 (No. 55 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
🔘 Peak rating 2712 (April 2004)


♦️ A memorable game by Nigel Short 👇👇
▪️ Nigel Short vs Jan Timman
▪️ Interpolis 15th (1991), Tilburg NED, rd 4, Oct-21
▪️ Alekhine Defense: Modern. Alburt Variation (B04)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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▪️ Nigel Short vs Jan Timman
▪️ Interpolis 15th Tilburg 1991
🔸 PGN format
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Frans Kuijpers (Netherlands) faces Lev Polugaevsky (USSR). Next to Polugaevsky, his compatriot Ivo Nei is in play v. Moshe Czerniak Round 8, Hoogovens tournament at Bewerwijk, Jan 1966.

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White to move and win. From Alexander Khalifman vs Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Minsk, 1985.

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"When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'."

🔸 David Bronstein

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Amsterdam, 19th July 1971. Australian (later US) grandmaster Walter Browne, in play v. ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (USSR) in the 9th round of the IBM tournament.

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🔸European Club Cup 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Fedoseev,Vladimir3 (2713)
⚫️Ledger,Andrew J (2353)
🔸1-0

12...Be7? [Black does not pay attention to the dangerous position of the queen on e4. He should have got rid of the queens with:]

[12...Qc2! 13.Qxc2 Bxc2=]

13.Rc1!+– [Now the Black's queen is trapped.]

13...Nxe5 [13...Qxg2 14.Bf3 Bg4 15.Bxg2 Bxd1 16.Kxd1+–; 13...Bg5 14.Nd2! Qxg2 15.Bf3+–]

14.dxe5 [14.Nd2?? Qxg2–+]

14...Qxe5 15.Qd4 Qxd4 16.cxd4+– 1–0