🔸World Senior 50+ 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Kalegin,E (2413)
⚫️Sturua,Z (2529)
🔸0-1

38...Qb7! [This quiet move besides defending the rook and protecting his king maintains Black's attacking chances along the h1–a8 diagonal.]

39.Qc2 [39.Qd3 Ne3! 40.Qd6+ Kf5 41.Qd3+ Re4 42.Rc1 g5!–+ △Kg6]

39...f3! [Maybe it seemed that the black king was more vulnerable than its counterpart, But now it turns out to be the opposite of what we expected.]

40.Kg1 Qb6+! [40...fxg2!? 41.Qf2 Rb2!–+ △Qb6]

41.Kh2 fxg2‚ 42.Rg1 Qd4–+ [△Qf4]

⚪️#219 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Grandelius,N (2678)
🔸Hector,J (2501)
🔸Bistro Stella Limhamn Malmo SWE 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 219
public poll

A) e5 – 2
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 33%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Kasyap

B) f4 – 2
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 33%
@Sophia_Giraffe, Matthew

C) Re1 – 2
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 33%
Max, @A_Wild_Richard

👥 6 people voted so far.

⚪️#219 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸El Jawich,A (2264)
🔸Masrahi,Abdulrahman A (1903)
🔸Emirates ch-Arab 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 219
public poll

C) Bd3 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @hosssein_G, @miladnajafiyan, @Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, Alan, Matthew, Kasyap

A) a4
▫️ 0%

B) h×g7
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

Early Exit Top GMs After Bloody Day 2 FIDE Grand Prix Moscow

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Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Dmitry Jakovenko, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Nikit Vitiugov all had to leave the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow early. Sunday's tiebreaks will decide the matches Nakamura-Radjabov and Duda-So.

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1997-Deep Blue,first computer to beat a world champion in a match.

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"Too many checks means there's something wrong with the attack."

🔸 Viktor Korchnoi

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Haninge (Sweden), May 1990. The 6th-round meeting of grandmaster Ferdinand Hellers (Sweden) and ex-World Champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR). Karpov won this encounter - a Vienna Game - in 39 moves.

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Daniil Dubov on his #GrandPrixFIDE blockbuster vs Anish Giri.

"I was about to play 37.Nxf7+ but he [Anish Giri] did not allow me." Daniil Dubov explains the game that knocked out the Dutchman from the Moscow Grand Prix.