With a perfect score of 3/3 on the second day, GM Hikaru is now tied for first place at the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata. Aronian is the joint leader.

Ju Wenjun and Maria Muzychuk advance to round 4 while others head to playoff at WWC.

🔸European Club Cup 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Speelman,Jon S (2496)
⚫️Arnaudov,G. Petar (2452)
🔸1-0

19...Bc5? [The wrong evaluation. He should bravely have continued with:]

[19...exf5 20.Rd7 Bd8! 21.Rxb7 Nd3 △Nac5 22.Rd7 Nxf4 23.gxf4 fxe4 24.Nxe4 Bc7 25.Nc3 Bxf4 26.Bxc6 Nb8 27.Bxa8 Nxd7=]

20.Nd6 Bxd6?! [It would have been better for Black to keep his dark-squared bishop on the board.]

[20...Bc8 21.a5! Nc2 22.Rac1 Nab4 23.Na4 Rxa5 24.Nxc5 Rxc5 25.Nxc8 Rxc8 26.Bd6 Ra5 27.e5± △Be4]

21.Bxd6 Rfd8 22.e5 Nd5 23.Nxd5 cxd5 24.b4 Rdc8 25.Rdc1 Nb8 26.Rxc8+ Bxc8 27.Rc1+– [Black is completely helpless.]

27...Bd7 28.Rc7 Be8 29.Rc8 1–0

⚪️#59 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Nisipeanu,Liviu-Dieter (2661)
🔸Popovic,Dusan (2517)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

22.Kxh3? [Here White by mistakenly trades off a wonderful knight on b6 for the black knight on h3.]

[It would have been better to hold the knight on the board with 22.a5! Bxe3 23.Rxe3 Ng5 24.h4 Nf3 25.Rxe4 Rf6 26.c4 Qf7 27.c5²; 22.Bxg5? Nxg5 23.a5 Rf3 24.Re3 Qf7 25.h4 Rxe3 26.fxe3 Nf3-/+]

22...Bxe3 23.Rxe3 Qxb6 24.Qd2 Qc7 25.Rxe4 Qd7+ 26.Kg2 Qxa4 27.c4 Rc8 28.Rfe1 Qd7 29.Rc1 b6 30.c5 bxc5 31.bxc5 dxc5 32.Rxe5 c4 33.Qd4 Qd6 34.f4 Qc5 35.Qxc5 Rxc5 36.d6 Rc6 37.d7 Rd6 38.Re7 [38.h4! Rxd7 39.Rxc4 Rf6 40.Rc8+ Rf8 41.Rc4²]

38...Rf7 39.Re8+ Rf8 40.Re7 Rf7 41.Re8+ ½–½

⚫️#59 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Gurbanov,Andrei (2305)
🔸Gallego Alcaraz,Andres Felipe (2511)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

25...Bd4! [25...fxg4? 26.Rae1 Rde8 27.Nd6; 25...f4 26.Rae1 Rxc4!? 27.bxc4 Rd2 28.Rd1 Rxc2 29.Rd8+ Kg7 30.Ra8 Rxc4 31.Rxa6 Rc2 32.h4 Ra2-/+]

26.Rad1 Rxg4–+ 27.Nb6 Re8 28.Rd2 Rge4 29.Nd5 Kg7 30.c3 Be5 31.Rf3 Rd8 32.c4 Bd4 33.b4 Re1+ 34.Kg2 Rg1+ 35.Kh3 Rc1 36.Ne3 Rc8 37.Nc2 Bf6 38.b5 axb5 39.cxb5 c4 40.a4 c3 41.Rg2 Rc4 0–1

⚫️#60 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Garcia,Jan Emmanuel (2439)
🔸Brkic,Ante (2565)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 60
public poll

A)23...Ne8 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
Jonas, @BehroudR, @RichardPeng, @Gm2001, @bardchess, Michael, Zhenrui, Alan

C) 23...e5 – 4
👍👍👍👍 33%
@Amirsparky, @Khodabakhsh57, @mahyarebrahimi1983, @h_a_d_I_1169

B)23...Ra8
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚫️#60 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Rios,Cristhian Camilo (2465)
🔸Scerbin,Dmitrij (2264)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 60
public poll

A)f6 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 86%
@Toukennn, Jonas, Jahanbakhsh, Michael, Zhenrui, Alan

B)Rf6 – 1
👍 14%
@RichardPeng

C)b5
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

🔹 World Chess Championship in London 2018
🔹 Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana -R2
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WWC2018 Only two players, Ju Wenjun and Mariya Muzychuk managed to win their matches today. In all the other matches, the winners will be decided in the tiebreaks...

🔹 Women's World Championship KO 2018-R3
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