Results of Round 6 at #WomenGrandPrixFIDE:

(3) Dzagnidze 0-1 Lagno (2)
(3) Kosteniuk ½-½ Koneru (3½)
(2½) Zhao Xue 0-1 Muzychuk A. (2½)
(3) Harika 1-0 Muzychuk M. (2½)
(1) Paehtz 1-0 Gunina (1)
(3) Cramling 0-1 Goryachkina (3)

Tomorrow is a free day.

Aleksandra Goryachkina had a slow start in Monaco but she's now won 3 of the last 4 games to join Humpy Koneru in the lead. Early next month she starts a Women's World Championship match against Ju Wenjun!

What do you think Kateryna Lagno is going to do on a free day at #WomenGrandPrixFIDE in Monaco?

1) Go to Nice for some shopping
2) Prepare for the next game all day long
3) Just relax and watch movies

The answer is in the vid 👇

Interview with Kateryna Lagno | 2019 FIDE Women's Grand Prix - Monaco | Round 6 |

🔸TCh-SWE Elitserien 2018–19
🔸Round 2
⚪️Johansson,Linus (2464)
⚫️Amin,B (2709)
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28...Qg5! [Black intends to support the advance of his passed pawn in the direction of the queening square.]

[28...Qe5? 29.Nb1 Ne8 30.Nc3 Nf6 31.Nd1³]

29.Qd4 [29.Kh2 d2! △Be4 30.b3 Be4 31.Bd1 Nf5 32.c5 Bxd5 33.cxd6 Nxd6–+]

29...Qc1+! [△d2]

30.Kh2 d2 31.g4 hxg4 [31...Qe1! △h4 would be even stronger: 32.gxf5 Nxf5 33.Qg1 Qe5+! 34.Kh1 Ng3+ 35.Kg2 Ne2–+]

32.hxg4 Bd7–+ [△Ba4]

Happy Birthday, Hikaru Nakamura! 🎁

Five-times US champion 🇺🇸, one of the strongest players in the world, mega-popular streamer, a fan of mountain climbing and fast speeds, bullet chess being his pet game, Hikaru is all that and more.

The old article of the 1966 Second Piatigorsky Cup, if only there was a super double-round robin with 18 rounds in these days.
Would you like to see a this kind of tournament in these days?

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"Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible."

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik

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Mikhail Tal makes positional queen sacs look easy 😯

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Tal Sacs Queen In The King's Indian - Bobotsov vs. Tal, 1958

Press center of the Leningrad international tournament. Khalifman, Kochiev, Gufeld, Nesis ... Great time for newspapers and Informants ...

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Move of the Day!

Viktor Korchnoi
Qxe2!

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