⚫️#241 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Tikkanen,H (2519)
🔸Semcesen,D (2464)
🔸Bistro Stella 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 241
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C) f×g4 – 8
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@fantastic45, Nikhil, Majid, اوین, @KingBossKrish, Atharva, ThebestBoss@_Kasyap, Arianna

A) Kf6 – 1
👍 11%
saberi

B) f4
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

Here we see these old rivals Anand and Kasparov from 1990-1995 Anand was one of the strongest contenders for the title and in 1995 he even played a match the final result was10½-7½ in Kasparovs favor (+4 -1=13).The prize fund was 1,500,000 US$ with 2/3 for the winner.

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An hour’s history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

🔸 Jose Raul Capablanca

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Nino Gurieli v. Marta Litinskaya-Shul. Date and place unknown; possibly the Women's Zonal Tournament in Frunze (Bishkek), 1978.

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Paul Keres and Tigran Petrosian in 1963 with the Piatigorskys.

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Move of the day :

22. Re8!! 1-0

Albert Whiting Fox - Albert Clerc, Paris 1901

And it’s a wrap! FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament is officially closed in Kazan.

Congratulations to Aleksandra Goryachkina for her convincing victory!

⚪️#241 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Ahmadzada,Ahmad (2343)
🔸Guliev,L (2312)
🔸Baku Open 2018

16...Bh6!? [16...d5! Black Should have reinforced the center and set up his pawn chain on the light squares. Then he could have prepared for launching a successful attack. 17.Rac1 Bg4 18.Rfe1 b6 19.Nf4 Bh6 20.Qb4 Rac8 21.Qa4 (21.Qd6 Qf5µ) 21...Kg7 22.Nce2

a) 22.Qxa7 Bxf4 23.exf4 Ra8 24.Qxb6 Rxa3–+;

b) 22.Nfe2 g5 23.Qxa7 (23.hxg5 Bxg5 24.Qb4 Bf3 25.Nf4 Bxf4 26.exf4 h4 27.Nd1 Bxg2 28.Kxg2 Qg4 29.Re3 Ne6–+) 23...Ra8 24.Qxb6 Rxa3–+;

22...Nxb5–+; 16...Ne6 17.Nd5 Nc7 18.Nxc7 Qxc7 19.Nf4 Qd7 20.Rac1 Rac8 21.Nd5=]

17.Qb4 Rad8 18.Qa4 Ncd5 19.Nxd5 Nxd5-/+