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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Gukesh,D (2456)
⚫️Almasi,Zoltan (2702)
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13...fxe6! [Almasi finds the best way to gain an advantage. Opening the f-file, and exploiting the pin on the bishop on c4.]

[13...Bxc4?! 14.Qxc4 fxe6 15.dxe6 Rxf3? 16.Qd5!±]

14.dxe6 d5! 15.Bxa6 Qxa6 16.Qe3 [16.Qxa6 Nxa6 17.Kg2 Rab8-/+]

16...bxc3 [¹16...Nc6!? △d4 17.Nbd2 d4 18.cxd4 Nxd4 19.Nxd4 Bxd4 20.Qe4 Bxb2 21.Rae1 Bc3–+]

17.bxc3 d4 18.cxd4 Nc6 19.Nbd2 Nxd4-/+ [Black's pieces are so active and White will have a hard task to defend.]
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Ding wins in style as Black at the #FIDEWorldCup with the retreating ...Qh8+!

How far will Ding go in this year's cup?
Forwarded from never lose hope
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FIDE World Cup 2019. Interview with Ding Liren. | R1, G1 |
Yermolinsky hears people are calling for Nakamura to retire due to computer evals: "Dealing with the Nakamura fan club is part of our job description... & we will deal with it, that's for sure!"
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FIDE World Cup 2019. Interview with Bilel Bellahcene. | R1, G1 |
#FIDEWorldCup 2021 will have 8 rounds, with 156 players in the first one. 78 winners of Round 1 + 50 top seeds will comprise the tree starting from Round 2.

As usual, both finalists will qualify to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022.
The first leg of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2019-20 was launched today in Russian Skolkovo. The opening ceremony was held at the Matrex Center, the venue for the tournament, which is a very stylish tv-studio-like space.

The website is https://wgp2019.fide.com
Moscow, 5th September 1985. The 2nd game of the second World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov is in progress on the stage of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

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Anatoly Karpov 🆚 Garry Kasparov

Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1985), Moscow URS, rd 2, Sep-05
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Classical Variation (B84)

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John Hilbert, the renowned American chess historian, remembers Dale Brandreth (1931-2019). https://bit.ly/2kF5kNG
“It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.”

🔸 David Bronstein

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