🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Grischuk,Alexander (2769)
⚫️Merry,Alan B (2435)
🔸1-0

26...Ng4? [Black has overestimated his attacking chances. He should have sacrificed a pawn to gain an active play.]

[26...Nd5! 27.Bxd5 exd5 28.Rxe8+ Rxe8 29.Qxd5 Qxb4 △Re1 30.Qxd7 Re1+ 31.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 32.Nf1 Qxc1 33.Qe8+ Bf8 34.g3 Qc4 35.Qd8²]

27.h3! Nde5 [27...Ngf6 28.b5 △Bg5 28...Nd5 29.Bg5 N7f6 30.Bxe8 Rxe8 31.Qd3+–]

28.dxe5 Rxd1 29.Qxd1! [29.Rxd1 Nxe5 30.Bxe8 Nxf3+ 31.gxf3 Bd4 32.Ne4 Kf8 33.Ba4 Qxb4 34.Bh6++–]

29...Qxf2+ 30.Kh1 Qxg3 31.hxg4+– [Black has no compensation for the material deficit.]

31...Qh4+ 32.Kg1 Rd8 33.Qe2 hxg4 34.Bf4 g5 35.g3 Qh3 36.Bg2 Qh5 37.Bc1 Bf8 38.Qe4 Kg7 39.Be3 Be7 40.b5

1–0

⚫️#123 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Henderson de La Fuente,Lance (2484)
🔸Gavilan Diaz,M (2334)
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17...Rf8!? [17...Nfg5! Transferring the knight for a kingside attack by putting pressure on the h3 and f3 weaknesses. 18.Bf1 Nxf3+ 19.Nxf3 Qf6 20.h4 Bd7 21.bxc6 Bxc6 22.Bg2 Rf8µ; 17...Qf6! 18.bxc6 bxc6 19.Kg2 Bh6 20.Bc4 Bxd2 21.Nxd2=/+]

18.h4 g5-/+

0–1

⚫️ #123 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Carlsen,M (2835)
🔸Caruana,F (2832)
🔸WCh Rapid TB 2018 London ENG

37...Kxe4?? [37...Ra2+! 38.Kh3 Kxe4 39.Rxg7 Ra1 40.Rc7 (40.Rg5? Kf3 41.Kh2 Ra2+ 42.Kg1 Ra1+ 43.Kh2 Ra2+=) 40...Rf1 41.Rc6 Rxf5= (41...a5 42.f6±) ; 37...Kf6 38.Rc6+ Ke7 39.e5 Ra5 40.Re6+ Kf8 41.Kf3 Ra1 42.Rc6 Ra4 43.e6 Ke7 44.Rc7+ Kf8 45.Ra7 a5 46.Rf7+ Kg8 47.Rb7 Kf8 48.Ra7! Rb4 (48...Ra3+ 49.Kf4 a4 50.Ra8+ Ke7 51.Rg8+–) 49.Rxa5]

38.Re7+ Kxf5 39.Rxg7 Kf6 40.Rg5 a5 41.Rxh5 a4 42.Ra5 Ra1 43.Kf3 a3 44.Ra6+ Kg7 45.Kg2 Ra2+ 46.Kh3 Ra1 47.h5 Kh7 48.g4 Kg7 [48...a2 49.Kh2 Kg7 50.g5 Kh7 51.Ra7+ Kg8 52.h6+–]

49.Kh4 a2 50.Kg5 Kf7 51.h6 Rb1 52.Ra7+ Kg8 53.Rxa2 Rb5+ 54.Kg6 Rb6+ 55.Kh5

1–0

⚪️#124 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Munguntuul,B (2422)
🔸Dushyant,Sharma (2289)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 124
public poll

C) Nh2 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, future, Jonas, Max, Gavin, Farshid, Michael, Hansika

B) a4 – 5
👍👍👍👍 36%
@SteveWongso, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Atharva

A) Bb3 – 1
👍 7%
Saghana

👥 14 people voted so far.

⚪️ #124 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Sadhwani,Raunak (2438)
🔸Bianco,V (2008)
🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 124
public poll

A) g×h6 – 14
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, future, Jonas, Max, Gavin, hamid, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Atharva, @WataxPin, @arash22_d, Michael, Hansika

C) g6 – 2
👍 13%
@SteveWongso, Saghana

B) g×f6
▫️ 0%

👥 16 people voted so far.

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