Chess Tactics for Improvers:
Le Quang Liem-Maghsoodloo
Douglas 2019
White to move

8-year-old living in homeless shelter wins New York chess championship: 'I want to be the youngest grandmaster'

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/18/homeless-boy-nigerian-refugee-wins-new-york-state-chess-championship/3199959002/

Nice cover design - and it comes with a chess set!
http://bit.ly/kidsbookofchess

Chess grandmasters headed to Jerusalem

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Chess-grandmasters-headed-to-Jerusalem-606216

GM Jeffery Xiong on the cover of American Chess Magazine #13. Photo by Lennart Ootes.

Carissa just got her third IM norm and become the youngest female IM ever in the history of USA.

Happy 36th Birthday to Alexander Grischuk (2764.1, World #10), who is a three-time world blitz chess champion. His highest live rating was 2813.6 in February 2015. Also, Happy 23rd Birthday to Dinara Saduakassova, who recently entered the 2500 female club!

◼️ Today is birthday of Alexander Alekhine !!
Russian - French chess Master
Fourth World Chess Champion

Born: October 31, 1892, Moscow, Russia
Died: March 24, 1946, Estoril, Portugal
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@unitychess

31...a4! [This strong pawn sacrifice allows the b8–rook to penetrate into White's second rank.]

32.bxa4 [32.Nxa4 Rxb3 33.R6d4 d6! 34.c5 d5 35.Rc1 Rg8!–+ Nf3]

32...Rb2+ 33.R6d2 Rxd2+ [Nf3]

34.Rxd2? [¹34.Kxd2 Nf3+ 35.Ke3 Nxh2 36.a5 Nf3 37.a6 h2 38.Rh1 Rc8! 39.Nd3 Rxc4 40.Ne1-/+]

34...Nf3 35.Rd1 Nxh2 [Black has grabbed the important h2–pawn and thereby the black far-advanced passed pawn on h3 will force White into a passive position.]

36.Ke3 Nf3 37.Kf4 h2 38.Rh1 Rc8 39.Kxg4 Ne5+ 40.Kf4 Rxc5–+

🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 1
⚪️Khenkin,I (2546)
⚫️Van Wely,L (2622)
🔸0-1

Gata Kamsky recently said Daniil Dubov reminds him of Mikhail Tal - the way Dubov is playing in Batumi you can see why!

#c24live #ETCC2019

Dieter Nisipeanu's look is the look of a man who knows the Dubov Express can't be stopped.

Another masterpiece by Daniil Dubov. With the publicity Fischer Random chess currently gets, it is as if he's on a mission to prove there's still plenty of room for originality, creativity and entertainment in the game as we know it for fifteen centuries.

Daniil Dubov wins a masterpiece (22.Rxf7!, 31.Bxc4+!, 36.Bb3!!) in the European Team Chamionship! His fantastic king hunt culminated in checkmate on a3!

👏🤩👏

#ETCC2019