#FIDEWomenCandidates will start on May, 31 in Kazan, Russia.
Round 1 pairings:

(1) Valentina Gunina 🇷🇺 - 🇷🇺 Kateryna Lagno (4)
(2) Alexandra Kosteniuk 🇷🇺 - 🇷🇺 Alexandra Goryachkina (3)
(5) Nana Dzagnidze 🇬🇪 - 🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi (8)
(6) Maria Muzychuk 🇺🇦 - 🇺🇦 Anna Muzychuk (7)

🔸St Louis Inv GM 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Kiewra,K (2364)
⚫️Ali Marandi,C (2552)
🔸1-0

16.Qd1! [White moves the queen out the dangerous diagonal and is getting ready to use his central powerful pawns.]

16...Nd7 17.Qd4?! [¹17.d6! would be correct: 17...Rc8 18.dxe7 Qxe7 19.Rc1 Nb6 20.Kg1 Rxc1 21.Qxc1 Rc8 22.Qa1 Na4 23.Bd4! Qc7 24.h4±]

17...Rc8 18.g4!? [△h4]

18...Bg6 19.h4 h6 20.d6! Nxd6 21.exd6 Bf6 22.Qd2 Rc2 23.Bxf6 Nxf6 24.Qd4!± [△Rd1]

⚪️#206 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Stankovic,Milo (2451)
🔸Mohamed,MA (2261)
🔸Orbis 2 GM 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 206
public poll

B) Kc3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 82%
@PouyaMO1360, @Behrangm2003, Nikhil, Babak, @A_Wild_Richard, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, Kasyap, Winston

A) c×d5 – 1
👍 9%
@Sophia_Giraffe

C) Rd1 – 1
👍 9%
@mahyarebrahimi1983

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚫️#206 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Masrahi,Abdulrahman A (1903)
🔸Mohamed,Faisal (2157)
🔸Emirates ch-Arab 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 206
public poll

B) R×a4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 77%
@PouyaMO1360, @Behrangm2003, Nikhil, @Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, @ali_king_chess, @Armin41, Kasyap

A) Kf6 – 3
👍👍 23%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Masoud, @aliarianario136138

C) f6
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

Born 3rd May 1941 in Zugdidi (Georgian SSR) - Nona Gaprindashvili, Women's World Chess Champion from 1962-78 and the strongest woman player of her generation.
Shown here after winning the title by defeating Elizaveta Bykova in Moscow in 1962,

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“Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.”

🔸 Garry Kasparov, Interview with ZDF, 2005.

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Bobby Fischer la Manhattan Chess Club Blitz Tournament, august 1971.

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World Chess Championship 1921
José Raúl Capablanca vs Emanuel Lasker.

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Happy birthday to Georgian Chess Legend GM Nona Gaprindashvili! 🎈🎉🎊

Nona Gaprindashvili and Mikhail Tal, the stars of the 1963/64 Hastings tournaments.

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The TePe #SigemanChess, held from 3-9 May in Malmo 🇸🇪, features an exciting field of 6 strong and experienced GMs including Harikrishna (2730), G. Jones (2702), I. Saric (2694), Grandelius (2688), and 2 young chess stars Maghsoodloo (2671) and Nihal Sarin (2598).

🔸St Louis Inv GM 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Niemann,Hans (2439)
⚫️Ali Marandi,C (2552)
🔸1-0

37...Bd5? [A mistake. Black could probably have gotten a draw by trying to enter the opposite-colored bishop endgame:]

[37...Bc4! △B×e5 38.Bg3 (38.Ra8+ Rf8 39.Ra7 f4! 40.exf4 gxf4 41.Ng6 Rf6 42.Ne7+ Kh8 43.Nc8 Bf8=) 38...Bxe5 39.Ra8+ Rf8 40.Rxf8+ Kxf8 41.Bxe5 Kf7=; 37...Bxe5?? 38.Bxe5 Rg6 39.d5+–]

38.Ra5!‚ f4 [¹38...Bc4 39.a4 Bxe5 40.Bxe5 Rb6 41.axb5 Bxb5 42.Ra8+ Kf7 43.Ra7+ Ke8 44.d5 Bd7±]

39.Rxb5 Be6? [Once again Black misses a chance to put up more resistance:]

[¹39...Bxe5! 40.dxe5 Rc6 41.Bxf4 Bc4 42.Rb8+ Kf7 43.Bg3 Ra6±]

40.Rb6+–