🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Tania,Sachdev (2400)
⚫️Leko,Peter (2690)
🔸0-1

30...g5! [A typical move. Black fixes White's doubled pawns and secures the f4 square for his knight.]

31.Kg2 Nf4+ 32.Kg3 Rb1 [△Rh1]

33.Kh2 [33.Rxf4? gxf4+ 34.Kxf4 Rh1 35.Bd3 Rxh3 36.Ke4 h5 37.Kf4 Rh4+ 38.Ke3 Rh1–+ △h4]

33...Kg7 34.h4 Rd1! [Leko shows his excellent technique for converting the advantage. White's rook is now tied up to the g2–pawn and doesn't have any future prospects.]

35.hxg5 hxg5 36.Bb5 Kg6 37.Ba6 Kh5 38.Bb5 Kh4 39.Ba6 Rd2 40.Kg1 Kh5 41.Bc4 Kg6 42.Ba6 Kg7 [Black does not find a path to penetrate into the white kingside and decides to transfer his king to the other side.]

43.Bb5 Kf8 44.Ba6 Ke7 45.Bb5 Kd8 46.Re1 [Finally, White gives up the d4–pawn and tries to activate his rook. Other continuations don't help:]

[46.Ba6 Kc7 47.Bb5 (47.Bf1 Kc6µ △Kd5) 47...Rb2! △Kc6 48.Be8 Kd8 49.Bxf7 (49.Bc6 Rb6 50.Ba4 Rb1+ 51.Kh2 Rf1 52.Kg3 Rg1+ 53.Kh2 Rg2+ 54.Kh1 Rxf2 55.Re3 Rd2 56.Re4 Rd3 57.Bb5 Rxf3–+) 49...Ke7 50.Bg8 Rb1+ 51.Kh2 Rb8 52.d5 Nxd5 53.Bxe6 Kxe6–+]

46...Rxd4 47.Ra1 Ng6 48.Ra8+ Kc7 49.Be8 Kb7 50.Bxf7 [50.Ra5 Rf4! 51.Rb5+ Ka6 52.Rb3 Nxe5µ]

50...Kxa8 51.Bxg6 Rf4 52.Kf1 Kb7 53.Ke2 Kc6 54.Be4+ Kc5–+

0–1

⚫️#125 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Ponkratov,P (2630)
🔸Shuvalova,Polina (2441)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final

13...dxe4?! [Making a weakness on e6.]

[¹13...d4!? Black should have avoided creating structural weaknesses. 14.Nb5 0–0 15.e5 Nh5 16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.Nxd4 Bc5 18.c3 Qd5=; 13...Qb6+!? 14.Kh1 d4 15.Na4 Qc7 16.Qe2=]

14.Nxe4 Nxe4 15.Bxe4 Qxd1 16.Rxd1 Bc5+ 17.Kg2 Ke7 18.c3²

1–0

⚪️ #125 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Kryakvin,D (2588)
🔸Shuvalova,Polina (2441)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final

27.Rc1!
[27.a3 Qc5 28.g3 Rc8 29.Qd7 Rc7 30.Qe8 f6 31.Kg2=]
[27.Rd2 b5 28.a3 b4 29.axb4 Rb7 30.Qd6 f6=]

27...Ng6 [27...Qc6 28.Ne2 Rd7 29.Rxc6 Rxd8 30.Rc7+/=]

28.Ne2 Qxe2 29.Qxc7 Qxe4 [29...Qxg4 30.Qc8 Qxe4 31.g3+/=]

30.Qc4 Qd4 31.Qxd4 exd4 32.Rc7 Ne5 33.Rxb7 d3 34.Kf1

1–0

⚫️#126 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Maletina,Tatiana (2270)
🔸Ponkratov,P (2630)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 126
public poll

A) R×f3 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
future, Max, Babak, Jayden, @RichardPeng, Jaikrishnan, @Lornyellor, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Daniel, Matthew, Kasyap

B) Bg4 – 3
👍👍 20%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @Somebody_Sophia, Atharva

C) Rb8
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

⚪️ #126 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Ju Wenjun (2568)
🔸Krush,I (2434)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 126
public poll

A) g5 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Babak, Jayden, @FrozenBlade, @RichardPeng, Jaikrishnan, @Lornyellor, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Pravin, Daniel, Alan, Matthew

B) Kf4 – 6
👍👍👍 29%
@M_L_110213, future, Max, Mieke, @Somebody_Sophia, Atharva

C) Rd1 – 2
👍 10%
@Zamani9899, Kasyap

👥 21 people voted so far.

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💢 Judit Polgár
💢 Hungarian chess Grandmaster

📚 Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is said to be the strongest female chess player of all time. Since September 2015, she is inactive.

❗️ Born: 23 July 1976 (age 42)
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❗️ Title: Grandmaster (1991)
❗️ FIDE rating: 2675 (January 2019) [inactive since September 2015]
❗️ Peak rating: 2735
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❗️ Peak ranking: No. 8 (July 2005)

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