2019 Grand Prix: Where Chess Meets Start-up Nations

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Interview with Alexander Lyashuk about the recent success of Lc0

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Stockfish has a slight lead over Leela Chess Zero after 5 of the last 10 games were decisive in the TCEC final, but it looks clear that self-taught chess engines like LCZero (following in the footsteps of AlphaZero) are going to dominate soon:

Problem chess with Pal Benko.

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Happy birthday to the world's oldest grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, who turned 97 today! 🎂🎉🎁

⚫️#134 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Foisor,Sabina-Francesca (2264)
🔸Stefanova,Antoaneta (2490)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

21...Nxe4! [A well-calculated exchange that leads to a winning position for Black.]

22.Bxe4 [22.fxe4 Ne3 23.Qd2 Nxc2 24.Qxc2 Bxe4–+]

22...Ne3 23.Qd3 Bxe4 24.Qxe3 [24.fxe4 Ng4–+]

24...Bd5–+ [Black's connected passed pawns are much better than the opponent's ones.]

0–1

⚪️ #134 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Erdogdu,M (2406)
🔸Soysal,Serkan (2415)
🔸ch-TUR 2018 Belek TUR

51.Ng2? [51.g5! Bc8 52.Ng4+ Kf5 53.Rf6+ Kxg5 54.Rf8 Rxg7 55.Rxc8 Nh4 56.Nce3 Rf7 57.Rg8+ Ng6 58.Rd8 Nh4 59.Rxd6 Rf3+ 60.Kh2 Nf5 61.Nxf5 Rxf5 62.Nh6 Rf2+ 63.Kg1 Rf3 64.Kg2 Rxa3 65.Nf7+ Kf5 66.Re6 Rb3 67.Nd6+ Kf4 68.Rxe4+; 51.Nf1? Nd4 52.Nxd4 cxd4 53.Nd2 d3 54.Rg5+ Kd4 55.Kf4 e3 56.Nf3+ Kxc4 57.Kxe3 Kc3 58.Nd2 Be8 59.Ne4+ Kc2 60.Rf5 Rxg7 61.Rf2+ Kb3 62.Nxd6 Bg6 63.Nf5 Rd7 64.Kd4 Kxa3 65.Ne3 d2 66.Rxd2 Kb3 67.Rf2 a3 68.Nc4 Bf7 69.Rf3+ Kb4 70.Nxa3 Rxd5+ 71.Ke4 Be6 72.Nc2+ Kc5=]

51...Nd4 52.Nce3 Be8 53.Rh6 Rxg7= 54.Nf4 Bf7 55.Rh8 Rg8 56.Rh7 Kf6 57.Rh6+ Ke5

½–½

⚪️#135 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Bok,B (2643)
🔸Gorovets,A (2509)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 135
public poll

A) Nd2 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%
Nikhil, @mn_aut, @Somebody_Sophia, @A_Wild_Richard, Taha, Atharva, @asisnitin, Michael, Hansika, Zhenrui

C) Nh4 – 1
👍 9%
@Lornyellor

B) Nf4
▫️ 0%

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚪️ #135 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Erdogdu,M (2406)
🔸Sevgi,V (2296)
🔸ch-TUR 2018 Belek TUR

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 135
public poll

B) Qb5 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 79%
@Op2229, @Mey_ro, @Zamani9899, Nikhil, @mn_aut, @RichardPeng, Amirmohammad, Atharva, @asisnitin, Michael, Hansika

C) Bc5 – 2
👍 14%
@Lornyellor, @arash22_d

A) a3 – 1
👍 7%
@Somebody_Sophia

👥 14 people voted so far.

Yuri Averbakh, in play during 1st round of the USA-USSR match, New York 1954.

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Leeuwarden, 17th April 1978. In the opening round of the Dutch championship, Genna Sosonko thinks over his 2nd move while his opponent, Jan Timman, paces behind. The game was drawn and the two players went on to share first place.

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