Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 156
public poll

A) Ne2 – 16
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 76%
@M_L_110213, عباس, Masoud, زهره, Babak, @FrozenBlade, @Sujas2, Saghana, @RichardPeng, Sahil, Srikar, Atharva, Michael, Hansika, Abhi, Matthew

C) Nd5 – 4
👍👍 19%
Max, @miladnajafiyan, @Somebody_Sophia, Daniel

B) h5 – 1
▫️ 5%
@mahyarebrahimi1983

👥 21 people voted so far.

The participants in the tournament at Pasadena, California, August 1932. Seated - Alekhine. Standing, from the left: 4th - Fine, 6th - Reshevsky, 7th - H. Steiner, 8th - Kashdan, 10th - Dake.

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On August 14, 1932, Alexander Alekhine arrived on the eve of the Chess Congress Masters Tournament (part of the Los Angeles Congress) at the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena, following the 10th Modern Olympic Games at Los Angeles. Alekhine won the event (and $250) with a score of 8.5-2.5 (+7=3-1). Isaac Kashdan took 2nd with a score of 7.5-3.5. Next were Arthur Dake, Sammy Reshevsky, and Herman Steiner with 6.5. Next came Harry Borochow, California State champion, with the score of 5.5-5.5. He was followed by Fred Reinfeld, Jacob Bernstein, Reuben Fine, and Samuel Factor, all with 5-6. Jose Araiza came next with a score of 3.5-7.5. Last place went to Adolph Fink, San Francisco's strongest player, with a score of 3-8. It was agreed that the California player having the highest score in this event would be declared champion of California. Thus, Harry Borochow became California champion for the third straight year. This international tournament was promoted by Cecil B. DeMille. The tournament organizers also wanted to invite Capablanca, but Alekhine demanded an extra $2,000 appearance fee if Capablanca participated in the event. The money could not be raised (the whole budget for the tournament was $1,500), and Capablanca was not invited. Lavieve Mae Hines (1896-1997) won the Pasadena Congress Women's Chess tournament, which was held concurrently with the Pasadena 1932 International Chess Tournament.

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“Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.”

🔸 Emanuel Lasker (1926) “Lasker's Manual of Chess"

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Here Fischer and Larsen are preparing for they're legendary candidates semi final match and yes also this match ended 6-0 in Fischer's favor.
As usual Fischer won many games in the end-game as he was in better form and did not crack from pressure after the 5th hour of play.

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This letter signals the starting point of the Oxford v Cambridge match ("Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal," February 25, 1871). After 136 matches held between 1873 and 2019, Cambridge leads with + 59 - 56 = 22.

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It was a promising start in the #SpringChessClassic - Group A, as the first round ended with 4 decisive games and only one draw.

It was not an easy weekend for those world Top-10 players competing in the Bundesliga.. Caruana (World #2) lost to Leko, MVL (World #9) lost to Kamsky, and today Anand (World #6) lost to Korobov.

🔹 Bundesliga 2018-19
🔹 PGN format

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24 Photos · Schachbundesliga · Finale · Berlin

http://offermann.photos/gallery/schachbundesliga-finale-2018-19/

🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Deac,Bogdan-Daniel (2594)
⚫️Adams,Michael (2712)
🔸0-1

29...hxg3! [The most accurate move to continue the attack. Adams clears the h4–square for his knight.]

30.fxg3 [Recapturing with the other pawn would be bad: 30.hxg3 Nh4+ 31.Kh3 Nf3–+]

30...Be3! [30...Rxc1! is just as good: 31.Qxc1 Be3 32.Qc2 Qg4 33.Nc1 Bxc1 34.Rxc1 Nf4+ 35.Kg1 Ne2+ 36.Kf2 Nxc1 37.Qxc1 Rd3–+]

31.Rxc4 bxc4 32.Nf2 Nf4+! 33.Kh1 Nd3!? [¹33...Bxf2! 34.Qxf2 Nd3 35.Qd2 Qxd2 36.Bxd2 Nxb2–+]

34.Nxd3 cxd3 35.Qd1 d2 36.Bc3 Qg6!

0–1

⚫️#156 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Harikrishna,P (2726)
🔸Caruana,F (2828)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

23...d4! [Fabiano gives up his extra pawn in order to seize the initiative.]

[23...Na5 24.Rf6 h5 25.Bd4=; 23...Kb7 24.Bxc6+ Kxc6 25.a5=]

24.Bf4+ [24.Bxc6 dxe3 25.Bb5 Rd2=/+]

24...Kb7 25.Bxc6+ Kxc6 26.Be5 [¹26.cxd4 Rd5=]

26...Rhg8 27.Bxd4 Rd5! [Preventing White from playing a5 and trying to put pressure on the opponent's weak pawns.]

28.Rf4 h5 29.Rb1 Rdg5 30.g3 Ra5 31.Rb4 Rg4 32.Kf2 Rxf4+ 33.gxf4 h4 34.c4 Bd7 35.Ke3 Kd6 36.Bc3 Ke6 37.h3 Bxa4µ

0–1

⚪️#156 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Malakhatko,V
🔸Khodashenas,M
🔸international fajr cup 2019

1.Nd5+!! [1.h5? Kg5=; 1.Ne2?! Ke5 2.Nf4²]

1...Ke5?! [1...Kg6 2.Kf4 Be6 3.Ke5 Bd7 4.Nf4+ Kh6 5.Kf6±]

2.h5 Be8?! [2...Be6 3.Ne7 Kf6 4.h6 Bf7 5.Nxf5±]

3.h6 Bg6 4.Nf4 Bh7 5.Nh3 f4+ 6.exf4++–

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