Happy birthday to Ludmila Zaitseva🎂🎁🎊

Ludmila Zaitseva is a Russian Woman International Grandmaster (WGM, 1986). She is a two-time winner the Russian Women's Chess Championship (1993, 1996).

Cairns Cup: No lack of excitement

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Krush - Zatonskih 1-0. Irina finally converted the queen ending. Another four result day!

🔹 2019 Cairns Cup-R4
🔹 PGN format

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Round 5 pairings.

Sebag, Marie - Kosteniuk, Alexandra

0-1

Inaugural Cairns Cup 2019 round 04

47.Re7 ??

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The Grand Chess Tour 2019 will have 12 participants. They are Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Sergey Karjakin, Anish Giri, and Viswanathan Anand.

🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2780)
⚫️Tari,Aryan (2618)
🔸1-0

20.Nxe6! [Vachier finds an accurate way to win the weak d5–pawn.]

[20.Nfxd5? Nexd4 21.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 22.Rxe1 Kg7=]

20...Bxe6 [20...Rxe6?! 21.Bxd5 Re7 22.Bxf7+ Rxf7 23.d5 Rd7 24.Rad1±]

21.Rfe1! [Black now has no way to save the d5–pawn.]

21...Bf7 [¹21...Kg7 22.Nxd5 Bxd5 23.Rxe8 Qxe8 24.Bxd5 Rd8 25.Re1 Qd7 26.Bxc6 bxc6 27.Qc3±]

22.Rxe8+ [△N×d5]

22...Qxe8 23.Nxd5 Qd8 24.Ne3 Qxd4 25.Qxd4 Nxd4 26.Bxb7 Rd8 27.Rd1 Rd7 28.Bd5 Ne6 [28...Bxd5 29.Rxd4 Bc6 30.Rxd7 Bxd7±]

29.Kf1 Kf8 30.Bxe6 Rxd1+ 31.Nxd1 Bxe6±

1–0

⚫️#136 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Margvelashvili,G (2530)
🔸Naroditsky,D (2616)
🔸chess.com INT 2019

30...Kg7!! [The correct strategic plan. Black intends to transfer his king to the g5–square via h6.]

[30...Rac8? 31.Bxa6 Rc5 32.b4!±; 30...Rfc8!? 31.b3 Ra7°]

31.Bb3 Kh6 32.Bc2 Rae8 33.Ke1 Kg5 34.Kf2 h4–+

0–1

⚫️ #136 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Gunduz,Umut Erdem (2205)
🔸Koksal,E (2351)
🔸ch-TUR 2018 Belek TUR

34...Re5!? [34...Ba4! 35.Rxb7 Bxc2 36.d4 Bd3 37.Rb2 g5 38.g3 Ra8 39.Nb3 fxg3+ 40.Kxg3 Kc6 41.Nc1 Bc4 42.Rd2 Ra3 43.Ne2 Kd5 44.Kf2 Bd3 45.Rd1 Bxe2 46.Kxe2 Ra2+ 47.Ke3 Rh2–+; 34...b5 35.Nb3 g5 36.Nd4 Re5 37.h4 Rd5 38.Nxc6 Kxc6-/+]

35.Nc4? [35.Nb3-/+]

35...Rc5 36.h4 b5 37.Na3 b4 38.Nc4 Bb5 39.Ra5 Bxc4 40.Rxc5 dxc5 41.dxc4 Kd6 42.Ke2 Ke5 43.Kd3 h5 44.c3 b3 45.Kd2 Kf5 46.Kc1 g5 47.Kb2 gxh4 48.Kxb3 h3 49.gxh3 Kg5 50.Ka4 Kh4

0–1

⚪️#137 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Sheng,Joshua (2451)
🔸Le Tuan Minh (2515)
🔸chess.com INT 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 137
public poll

B) Be5 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
Vincent, @Milad317, Pravin

A) f4 – 1
👍👍 20%
@Amjedchess

C) Nh5 – 1
👍👍 20%
Samira

👥 5 people voted so far.

⚪️ #137 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Vidit,S (2695)
🔸Van Foreest,Jorden (2612)
🔸81st Tata Steel 2019

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 137
public poll

A) B×c6 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
@niimaebrahimi, Vincent, Pravin, @Dmbarrad

B) Bc3 – 1
👍👍 17%
International Chess Grandmaster

C) Ba3 – 1
👍👍 17%
@Miladdark79

👥 6 people voted so far.

USSR Championship. Lviv 1984. 1. Sokolov A. 2. Lerner K. 3. Einhorn V. Vladimir Grabinsky!
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