🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️ Vassily Ivanchuk
⚫️ Murtas Kazhgaleyev
🔺 1-0

🔹 The interesting and tactical moments of the World Cup Round 1- Tie-break🔹

🏆Fide World Cup 2017

⚪️Michael Adams (2738)
⚫️Tsegmed Batchuluun (2555)

Results: 1-0

Black blunderd in an equal position.
1...f6?? 2.Rd5+ Ke6 3.Nc7+ 1-0

🏆Fide World Cup 2017

⚪️Vladimir Fedoseev (2731)
⚫️Yusnel Bacallao Alonso (2573)

Results: 1-0

An interesting combination by Russian super grandmaster
1.N.g6! R.g6 2.R.e6!±

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Murtas Kazhgaleyev (2576)
⚫️Vassily Ivanchuk (2728)
🔺 0-1

An standard idea is opening the Bc8's diagonal by playing e5.

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Murtas Kazhgaleyev (2576)
⚫️Vassily Ivanchuk (2728)
🔺 0-1

🔺 The only correct plan on the board. transferring the rook to f6 in order to attack on opponent's weakness 🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Francisco Vallejo pons (2717)
⚫️Murali Karthikeyan (2579)
🔺 1-0

🔺 1.a3! with the idea of increasing the spatial advantage by playing b4 and controling c5 square. 🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Francisco Vallejo pons (2717)
⚫️Murali Karthikeyan (2579)
🔺 1-0

1...Bb5 is a blunder. After 2.a6 +- game is over.

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Etienne Bacrot (2715)
⚫️Alexander Fier (2579)
🔺 1-0

1.Qb6!
With the idea of exchanging his bad bishop with white's good one.

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Dmitry Andreikin (2706)
⚫️Aleksey Goganov (2586)
🔺 1-0

an interesting plan by Andreikin and transferring the knight to the kingside

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️ Amirreza Pourramezanali
⚫️ Yu Yangyi
🔺 0-1

The finishing move by chinese super grandmaster

1...R.f2!! 2.K.f2 Rf6+ 3.Kg1 Be3+ 4.N.e3 Q.e3+ 5.Kh1 Rf2

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️ Pentala Harikrishna (2743)
⚫️ Yuri Gonzalez vidal (2543)
🔺 ½ ½

Instead of 1....Bg3 2.Ne5! Black could finish off the game by playing 1...f3!

🏆Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️Tsegmed Batchuluun (2555)
⚫️Michael Adams (2738)

Results: ½ ½

🔺1.Qc1!
A prophylactic move to prevent Ba6:
1.Qc1 Ba6? 2.B.a6 R.a6 3.b5 cb5 4.c6+/-
Instead if white had played 1.Bd3 black could have played Ba6 immediately:
1.Bd3 Ba6! 2.B.a6 R.a6 3.b5 cb5 4.c6 Qc8! and the knight on c3 is unprotected.🔺

🏆Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️Tsegmed Batchuluun (2555)
⚫️Michael Adams (2738)

Results: ½ ½

the correct plan for black is exchanging bad bishop for the good one.
Qc8!--->Ba6
the point is:
Ba6? 2.B.a6 R.a6 3.b5±

🏆Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️Alexander Areshchenko (2652)
⚫️Anton Demchenko (2645)

Results: 1-0

Black lost his chance of the draw by playing
1...Ra8? 2.Rc2 +-

He should have played
1...e.d2!! 2.c8=Q K.d5 3.Q.f8 Kc4 =