Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 50
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C)26.Rf7 – 6
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Hajjy, @Squirtle1, @YaminiG, @A_Wild_Richard, @Ndtaker, Michael

A)26.b4 – 2
👍👍 25%
Alexander, Mahathi

B)26.Bb4
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#50 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Muhseen,Abdullah Mohammed (2220)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 50
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B)53...Rc1+ – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
Hajjy, Jayden, @YaminiG, @RichardPeng, Michael

C)53...Rxh2+ – 2
👍👍👍 29%
Alexander, @Ndtaker

A)53...Re1+
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

Botvinnik vs. Bronstein | World Chess Championship 1951.

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🔸 World Championship 1951, Botvinnik - Bronstein
🔸 PGN format

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"Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board."

🔸 Mark Dvoretsky (2014) "For Friends and Colleagues: Volume 2"

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A simul given by Reuben Fine at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on May 3, 1942. His final score after 9 hrs. 25 mins. was +87=17-6.

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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Nikitin (coach Garry Kasparov for many years) with Garry and Klara Kasparov.

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🔹 Vasily Smyslov
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 7th World Chess Champion (1957 -1958)
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✅ About Smyslov

🔹 Vasily Smyslov
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 7th World Chess Champion (1957 -1958)

🔰 Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions.
Smyslov twice tied for first place at the Soviet Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.

🔰Smyslov was the 7th World Chess Champion in 1957-8. He was a top 10 player between 1940 and 1970, the top player 1953-1958 and remained in the top 100 until 1990 when he was 70. A reknowned positional and endgame player he nevertheless played all sorts of positions throughout his career.

🔘 Full name: Vasily Vasilyevich (Vasilievich) Smyslov
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
🔘 Born: 24 March 1921
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: 27 March 2010 (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 World Champion: 1957–58
🔘 Peak rating: 2620 (July 1971)

♦️ A memorable game by Smyslov against Zoltan Ribli in London 1983 which named "Disposing the Tarrasch" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Vasily Smyslov vs Zoltan Ribli
▪️ Candidates Semi-final (1983), London ENG, rd 5, Nov-30
▪️ Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Main Line (D42)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ Vasily Smyslov - Zoltan Ribli, Candidates Semi-final (1983)
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🔸European Club Cup 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Bokros,Albert (2465)
⚫️Safarli,Eltaj (2676)
🔸0-1

77...Nb5! [Eltaj tries to exploit the vulnerable White's king position.]

78.Be4?! [78.Ke4 Nd6+ 79.Kf4 Ra3 80.Bf1 Ra4 81.Kf3 Nf5 82.d5 Ra3+ 83.Kg2 exd5 84.Rxd5 Rxg3+ 85.fxg3 Ne3+ 86.Kf3 Nxd5³ and a draw is the most likely result.]

78...Nxd4! [△e5]

79.Rd3 Rb2! [The rooks should be retained on the board!]

80.g4? [80.Ke3 Nc2+ 81.Ke2 Ke5 82.Bf3 Nd4+ 83.Kf1 Nb3-/+]

80...e5+! 81.Kg3 hxg4 82.Ra3 Nf5+ 83.Kxg4 Rxf2–+ 84.Ra6+ Kg7 0–1

ECU president's apology on his facebook page:

And protests against his apology: