🔸Tata Steel India Rapid 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Mamedyarov,S (2817)
⚫️Karjakin,Sergey (2753)
🔸1-0

37.Rb8+! [With this check, Black's king is dragged into an undesirable square where White can advance his central pawns with tempo.]

[37.d5? Rc2 △N×e4 38.Rb8+™ Kg7 39.Kg1 Rc1+ 40.Kg2 Rc2=]

37...Ke7 [37...Kg7 38.f6+! Kh7 39.e5 △d5 39...Ne4 40.Kf3 Nxf2 41.Kxf2 Kg6 42.Ke3 Kf5 43.Rb7 Kg6 44.Ke4+–]

38.f6+! [△e5]

38...Kd7 39.e5! Ne4 40.Kf3 Nc3 41.Kg4 Nd5 42.Rf8!+– [42.Kxg5!? Rc2 43.Bg3 Rc3 44.Bh4 Rd3 45.Kf5 Rxd4 46.Bg5 Rd1 47.Rb7+ Nc7 48.e6+! fxe6+ 49.Kg6+–]

Interview with FIDE World Cup finalist Ding Liren

Xiong – Duda is the best game of Rounds 3-4 of #FIDEWorldCup. It got the most votes in our poll!

Results:
https://www.poll-maker.com/results2515193xcFF0434A-71#tab-2

Details about the brilliancy prize:
https://khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en/news/313/

IM Max Notkin reviews the most interesting games of FIDE World Cup semifinals Radjabov-Vachier-Lagrave and Ding Liren - Yu Yangyi:
https://khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en/news/430/?fbclid=IwAR3h22CVqpAJcvUcxnGwPBQ2DK3ZHw-6cHpBBwHLCI74pN2BIXOuidPdvgc

❓ The best game of quarters and semis of #FIDEWorldCup❓

Ding - Grischuk (quarters, G2)
Radjabov - Xiong (quarters, G2)
Radjabov - Vachier-Lagrave (semis, G2)
Ding - Yu (semis, rapid 2)

Vote here:
https://www.poll-maker.com/poll2526582xAa484091-72

Details:
https://khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en/news/431/?fbclid=IwAR2q7b1jkGFQuVZnBv8YpXmGdybAPqzn0Insrg2feWRLiT0PGfFAP0kr7Rk

The modern “knockout” began like that! Dnepropetrovsk, USSR Cup, 1970. The party of Vladimir Savon and Sergei Rosenberg is watched with interest by Mikhail Tal. And who won? The author of the short matches system is David Bronstein!

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"Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly..."

🔸 Jose Raul Capablanca

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26 years ago:
Larsen defeats Deep Blue!

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FIDE World Cup Final starts peacefully. Match for the 3rd place also began with a draw.