🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Game 2
⚪️Nana Dzagnidze
⚫️Anish Giri
🔺 ½-½

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🔸Round 1 Game 2
⚪️Sergey Karjakin
⚫️Anton Smirnov
🔺 ½-½

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Game 2
⚪️Al Rakib Mollah Abdullah
⚫️Hikaru Nakamura
🔺 0 -1

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Game 2
⚪️Mladen Palac
⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi
🔺 ½-½

🔹 The interesting and tactical moments of the World Cup Round 1- game2 🔹

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⚪️Oluwafemi Balogun (2255)
⚫️Magnus Carlsen (2826)

Carlsen's interesting maneuver to activate the bad bishop

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⚪️Oluwafemi Balogun (2255)
⚫️Magnus Carlsen (2826)

🔺Due to the fact that White doesn't have a concrete plan, Black improves the position of his King by moving it towards the center🔺

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⚪️Peter Svidler (2751)
⚫️Jakhongir Vakhidov (2529)

An interesting manoeuvre by Svidler to improve his knight's position.

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⚪️Peter Svidler (2751)
⚫️Jakhongir Vakhidov (2529)

a very strong maneuver by Svidler in order to create weakness on black's kingside

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⚪️Helgi Dam Ziska (2545)
⚫️Teimour Radjabov (2742)

very interesting and tactical game by Radjabov
By sacrificing a knight and then an exchange, he obtained sufficient compensation.

1...N.g3! 2.f.g3 Q.g3 3.Qc2 f5!
4.Bc5 f4 5.Qf2 Qg6 6.B.f8 R.f8! with black advantage

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⚪️Hao Wang (2702)
⚫️Deep Sengupta (2589)

Black blundered by playing 1...Rec7. He should have played the prophylactic move 1..h5

1...Rec7? 2.h5! Bh7 3.Rd8! N.d8
4.R.d8 Ke7 5.Rh8 +-

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⚪️Viktor Erdos (2628)
⚫️Bassem Amin (2680)

Results: ½ ½

A good tactical opportunity that White completely missed. He could reach a wining position with this interesting continuation!👇

1.B.h6!! B.h6 2.Rg1! +-
(if 2...Q.g1 3.R.h6+ Kg7 4.Qf6#)

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⚪️Viktor Erdos (2628)
⚫️Bassem Amin (2680)

Results: ½ ½