Anish Giri wins a great game playing defense against Vladimir Kramnik. 🛡

He's on 50% after two dramatic games where Black was the victor.

Jorden van Foreest completes the Dutch comeback!

Rapport survives in 94 moves and almost exactly 7 hours, so the decisive games were both comebacks for the Dutch players who lost yesterday!

🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Adams,Michael (2712)
⚫️Gupta,Abhijeet (2588)
🔸1-0

25.Bxe4! [This timely exchange leads to damage Black's pawn structure.]

25...Rxe4 [25...dxe4? 26.Qxf6 gxf6 27.h5!+– △B×h6]

26.Qxf6 gxf6 27.h5! [Gaining more space on the kingside and fixing the weak pawn on h6.]

27...Nf8 28.Kf1 [△B×h6]

28...Kh7 29.Bd2! [A correct valuation. The exchange of Rooks is in White's favor.]

29...Rxe2 [29...R4e6 30.Ne3 Nd7 31.Nf5 Bf8 32.Bf4 a6 33.Bd6! a5 34.Bxf8 Nxf8 35.Nd6 R8e7 36.f4 Rd7 37.Ne8 Rde7 38.Nxf6+ Kg7 39.Ng4±]

30.Rxe2 Rxe2 31.Kxe2 Ne6 32.Ne3! [△Nf5]

32...Ng7 33.g4 f5 34.Nxf5 Nxf5 35.gxf5 f6 36.a4 Kg7 37.Kd3 Bf8 38.c4± [38.Bf4!? is just as good: 38...Kf7 39.Bb8 a6 40.c4±]

1–0

🔴 Today is birthday of Nadezhda Kosintseva
♦️ Russian chess Grandmaster

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Some great names in this photo. From the 'Match of the Century' - Rest of the World v. USSR, Belgrade 1970.
Left to right: Spassky, Hort, Tal, Petrosian, Polugaevsky & Fischer.

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“I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.”

🔸Alexander Kotov

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Alexander Alekhine on his way to winning against Junge at Munich 1942.

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Judit Polgar vs Levon Aronian
2nd European Championship 2001, Ohrid MKD, rd 2

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Lan Nepomniachtchi wins a very nice game on the White side of the Berlin against none other than Vladimir Kramnik! Great use of the two bishops.

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Grischuk,Alexander (2769)
⚫️Jumabayev,Rinat (2605)
🔸1-0

40.Bg5+! [After this check, Black has no way to save the game. All Whites pieces are ready to mount an invasion.]

40...Bxg5 [40...Kg7 41.Bxf6+‚ Kxf6 42.Qa1+! Kf7 43.Ng5+ Kf8 44.Qf6+ Kg8 45.Re8#; 40...Kh5 41.Kg3! △Rh1 41...Nxe1 42.Qxe1+– △Qh1]

41.fxg5+ [△Qc7]

41...Kh5 [41...Kg7 42.Qc7+ Qf7 43.Re7 Bd5 44.Rxf7+ Bxf7+–]

42.Qc7! [With an unstoppable mate.]

1–0

🔴 Today is birthday of Jan Werle
♦️ Dutch chess Grandmaster

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