37.b5!? [37.Bc7 Nc6 38.b5 Kd7 39.Bg3 Ne5 40.Kb4 Nc4 41.Bxc4 dxc4 42.Kxa4 a6 43.Be1 axb5+ 44.Kxb5=; 37.Bb5 Bd7 38.Bxd7+ Kxd7 39.b5 a6 40.Kb4 a3 41.Kxa3 axb5-/+]
37...Nd7 38.Bc7 Bb7? [38...a3! 39.Kb3 a6 40.Kxa3 axb5=]
39.Kb4 Nb6 40.Bb8 Nc8 41.Kxa4 f5 42.Kb4 g5 43.g4 fxg4 44.hxg4 Nb6 45.Bxa7 Nc4 46.Bxc4 dxc4 47.e4 Ke5 48.Be3
1β0
37...Nd7 38.Bc7 Bb7? [38...a3! 39.Kb3 a6 40.Kxa3 axb5=]
39.Kb4 Nb6 40.Bb8 Nc8 41.Kxa4 f5 42.Kb4 g5 43.g4 fxg4 44.hxg4 Nb6 45.Bxa7 Nc4 46.Bxc4 dxc4 47.e4 Ke5 48.Be3
1β0
Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 192
public poll
A) Rdg1 β 5
πππππππ 63%
@Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, Srikar, Majjeed, Zhenhua
C) Nb5 β 3
ππππ 38%
Nikhil, @BehroudR, Matthew
B) h4
β«οΈ 0%
π₯ 8 people voted so far.
public poll
A) Rdg1 β 5
πππππππ 63%
@Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, Srikar, Majjeed, Zhenhua
C) Nb5 β 3
ππππ 38%
Nikhil, @BehroudR, Matthew
B) h4
β«οΈ 0%
π₯ 8 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 192
public poll
A) Rb1 β 5
πππππππ 45%
Masoud, @RahmaniArapardaz, Salam, @Sophia_Giraffe, Srikar
C) BΓb4+ β 5
πππππππ 45%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Nikhil, @BehroudR, @A_Wild_Richard, Majjeed
B) e5+ β 1
π 9%
Ψ§Ω ΫΨ± Ω ΨΩ Ψ―
π₯ 11 people voted so far.
public poll
A) Rb1 β 5
πππππππ 45%
Masoud, @RahmaniArapardaz, Salam, @Sophia_Giraffe, Srikar
C) BΓb4+ β 5
πππππππ 45%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Nikhil, @BehroudR, @A_Wild_Richard, Majjeed
B) e5+ β 1
π 9%
Ψ§Ω ΫΨ± Ω ΨΩ Ψ―
π₯ 11 people voted so far.
βGood players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.β
πΈ Samuel Reshevsky
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πΈ Samuel Reshevsky
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At the 1979 Tilburg Interpolis super-tournament, round 9 (played 12th November) - Jan Timman (Netherlands) faces ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (USSR), while his compatriot Genna Sosonko looks on.
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β³On This Day in Historyβ¦
Mr. Charles Spencer Chaplinβ¦
He is one of the most prominent names in the history of the film industry, who won three Academy awards in a career spanning more than three-quarters of a century. He devoted two pages of his autobiography to playing chess, with particular focus on the time when he was one of twenty Hollywood film stars to play simultaneous chess against prodigy and future eight-time US Champion Sammy Reshevsky.
Charlie Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889.
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Mr. Charles Spencer Chaplinβ¦
He is one of the most prominent names in the history of the film industry, who won three Academy awards in a career spanning more than three-quarters of a century. He devoted two pages of his autobiography to playing chess, with particular focus on the time when he was one of twenty Hollywood film stars to play simultaneous chess against prodigy and future eight-time US Champion Sammy Reshevsky.
Charlie Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889.
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