After a wonderful year things have fallen apart for Vladislav Artemiev at the Russian Championship Superfinal!

Olga Girya heads the women's event.

♟Grandmaster Irina Krush (7 time U.S Women’s Champion 🇺🇸)is playing against WGM Yuleisy Moya from Cuba 🇨🇺 . .
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👉 WIM Moya is playing a Nimzo-Indian defense.
👉Follow the game here:
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/berkeley-summer-2019-im/1/1/2

⚪️#274 (Strategy-ًWhite to Move)
🔸Brunello,M (2338)
🔸Santeramo,Alessia (2064)
🔸78th ch-ITA Women 2018

26.a4! [Creating a weakness in Black's queenside pawn structure.]

[26.Kg2!? Ne7 27.Nxe7+ Qxe7 28.a4 c6 29.b4 Bb6 30.Rxd8+ Rxd8 31.h4 Qe6 32.h5 Rb8 33.Qa2 Qd6 34.axb5 axb5 35.Qd2 Qe6 36.Ra6²; 26.b4!? Bf8 27.a3 Qe6 28.h4 Ne7 29.Ne3 c5² /=]

26...Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 bxa4 28.bxa4 Ne7 29.Nxe7+ Bxe7 30.Kg2 Qc6 31.Qc2 Bd6 32.Rd5+/=

1–0

⚫️#274 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Malakhatko,V (2545)
🔸Zubarev,Al1 (2484)
🔸Pavlodar Open 2018

44...Kh7! [44...f4 45.h4 Bd7 46.Rac1 Ba4 47.Nd4 Bf8 48.Ra1 Bd7 49.Rad1 Rb8 50.Ne2 b3 51.Nxf4 b2 52.Nxd5 Bf5 53.Bxb2 Nxb2 54.Nf6+ Kg7 55.Nh5+ Kh8 56.Rd4 Rc8³; 44...h5 45.h3 f4 46.h4 Kf8 47.Rad1 Re8 48.Bd4 Rxe1+ 49.Rxe1 Bb5 50.Kh2 Kg8 51.Rb1 Ne5 52.Bc5 Bxc5 53.Nxc5 Nc6=]

45.Bd4 Bd7 46.f3 Kg6 47.g3? f4 [47...Na3! 48.Red1 Ba4 49.Rd3 Bb5 50.Rd2 Bc4 51.Rb2 Nb5–+]

48.Kf2 f6 49.gxf4 Kf7 50.Red1 Bxf4 51.Nc5 Bb5 52.Nd3 Bd6 53.Rdc1 Bd7 54.h4 Bf5 55.Nb2 Be5 56.Bxe5 fxe5 57.Na4 b3 58.Rc3 Rb8

0–1

🔸TCh-CZE Extraliga 2018–19
🔸Round 3
⚪️Plat,V (2539)
⚫️Bernasek,J (2477)
🔸1-0

17.Qh4! [Using the fourth rank in order to transfer a queen to the kingside is a perfectly good and standard idea.]

[17.Nc2?! d2 18.Re2 Qc4! 19.Qxc4 Bxc4 20.Re7 Bxa2 21.Nxd2 Rfd8=]

17...Bg7 18.Ng5!‚ Rfe8™ [18...h6? 19.Nxe6! fxe6 20.Qc4! Rac8 21.Rxe6 Qxc4 22.Nxc4 Rf6 23.Rxf6 Bxf6 24.Rxd3 Rxc6 25.b3+–]

19.Qxh7+ [¹19.Rxe6! Rxe6 20.Nxe6 Qxe6 21.Qc4 Rc8 22.Qxe6 fxe6 23.b3 Rxc6 24.Nc4!± △R×d3]

19...Kf8 20.Qh4+/= [¹20.Nxe6+!? Rxe6 21.Rxe6 Qxe6 22.Qh4 Qxc6 23.Rxd3 Qc1+ 24.Kh2 Be5+ 25.g3 Qxb2 26.Rf3+/=]

⚫️#275 (Strategy-ًBlack to Move)
🔸Gueci,Tea (2184)
🔸Andolfatto,Maria (2065)
🔸78th ch-ITA Women 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 275
public poll

C) Bf8 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@RahmaniArapardaz, future, @raienr, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @Qwerty123Tseries, @Kingbosskasyap

B) Qc5 – 2
👍👍 25%
@A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Arianna

A) Qe6
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#275 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Stupak,K (2580)
🔸Khusenkhojaev,Muhammad (2455)
🔸Pavlodar Open 2018