“Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistible artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.”

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik

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Happy Birthday to FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich!! 🎊🎉🎁

Born: 26 March 1972 (age 47) Moscow

GRENKE Chess Classic 2019 | Official Trailer

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The 2019 GRENKE Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin held in Germany from 22-29 April. The first 3 rounds are in Karlsruhe alongside the GRENKE Chess Open, then after two addition rounds in Karlsruhe and a rest day the last 4 rounds are in the Kulturhaus LA8 in Baden-Baden. The field features World Champion Magnus Carlsen and fellow Top 10 players Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vishy Anand and Levon Aronian.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/grenke-chess-classic-2019/1/1/1

GM Ernesto Inarkiev (2692) solely leads the #SharjahMasters with a perfect score after 4 rounds. Today he faces off against 2nd seed GM Le Quang Liem (2715).

Understanding the Benko gambit.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/why-is-this-chess-gambit-so-weird

🔸St Louis Winter A 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Robson,R (2676)
⚫️Quesada Perez,Yu (2612)
🔸0-1

32...Nxe4! [Robson reduces the opponent's defending pieces.]

[32...Ng4?? 33.Nxc5 Qh2+ 34.Kf1 bxc5 35.Qxc5+–]

33.Qxe4 h4!‚ [With the aim of destroying the opponent's kingside pawn structure.]

34.gxh4 Qg4+ 35.Kf2 Nxf4 [35...f5!? 36.Qd4 Nxf4–+ △Nh3]

36.Qe8+ Kh7 37.Rg3 Nh3+ [¹37...Nd3+! 38.Rxd3 Rxc4 39.Re3 Qxh4+ 40.Kg2 Rg4+ 41.Kf3 Qh5!–+]

38.Kg2 Qxc4 39.Kxh3 Qxd5 40.Qe2 Qh1+ 41.Kg4 f5+ 42.Kh5 Qc6–+

⚫️#175 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Matnadze,A (2372)
🔸Saduakassova,D (2474)
🔸WCh Women 2018

18...Rd3! [Black simply exploits the open d-file to attack the opponent's weaknesses.]

[18...Rb6 19.g4 Rd3 20.Re3 Rxe3 21.Bxe3 Rxb2 22.Qe1 Be6 23.Rb1 Rxb1 24.Qxb1=; 18...Qc5+ 19.Be3 Qf8 20.Rad1 Rxb2 21.Rxd8 Qxd8 22.Nd5 Be6 23.Nxf6+ Qxf6 24.Qxf6 gxf6 25.Bxa7 Rxa2 26.Bb8=]

19.Kg2 [¹19.Rf1 Qc5+ 20.Kh1 Qc6µ]

19...Qb7 20.Nd1?? [20.Re2³]

20...Bg4! 21.Nf2 [21.fxg4 Rxe4 22.Rxe4 Qxe4+ 23.Kh3 Rxd1–+]

21...Bxf3+ 22.Kg1 Qb6 23.Kf1 Bxe4 24.a3 Rc4 25.Nxd3 Bxd3+ 26.Kg2 Rc2+ 27.Kh3 Qf2 28.Bd2 Rxd2

0–1

⚪️#175 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Kryakvin,D (2588)
🔸Shuvalova,Polina (2441)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

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 [¹29...Qxg4 30.Qc8 Qxe4 31.g3+/=]

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

1–0

⚪️#176 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Debashis,D (2548)
🔸Trent,L (2391)
🔸chess.com IoM Masters 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 176
public poll

A) Nf1 – 15
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
@PouyaMO1360, عباس, Max, @soheil_hooshdaran, Gavin, Nikhil, Evan, @Sophia_On_The_Loose, @A_Wild_Richard, Adhvaith, Srikar, Atharva, Michael, Hansika, Kasyap

B) Ndb1
▫️ 0%

C) a5
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

⚫️#176 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Hoefelsauer,T (2380)
🔸Moksh,Amit Doshi (2224)
🔸chess.com IoM Masters 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 176
public poll

B) Rb7 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 53%
عباس, Gavin, Nikhil, Evan, رامتین, @A_Wild_Richard, Atharva, @arash22_d, Hansika, Kasyap

C) Re1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍 42%
@PouyaMO1360, @Mahnaz_11, @MohamadAsp, Max, @Sophia_On_The_Loose, Adhvaith, Srikar, Michael

A) Rb4 – 1
👍 5%
@MatinMagnoos

👥 19 people voted so far.

Nakamura leads the #USChessChamps on the rest day, but can't contain his shock that Caruana finally won a game! :)

https://goo.gl/teKW3d