♟Sundays with Unity♟

🏅Unity Weekly International Online Tournament April 12th, 2020

⏹ Rules & Regulations:
1️⃣ Type of tournament: Open
2️⃣ Every Sunday at 11:30 am (Arizona time)
3️⃣ Time control: 1/+1
4️⃣ Website: Lichess
5️⃣ Total time: 60 minutes
6️⃣ The Tournament Entry Fee: $4 by Saturday night at 24:00, after that $10.
✅ Due to the current global situation, Unity Chess Club is offering a reduced entry fee to players in need. To register with the reduced fee, please email the tournament organizer: unitychess@gmail.com
7️⃣ Free entry for the following players:
GM, WGM, IM, WIM, FM, WFM
8️⃣ Participants will be provided with a link and password half hour before the competition begins.
9️⃣ The registration deadline is up to two hours before the tournament starts.
🔟 All prizes will be paid within 2 days
*️⃣ Note: Cash prizes are given to the top six places, ranked by Lichess.

🏆Awards:
1️⃣$120
2️⃣$80
3️⃣$60
4️⃣$50
5️⃣$40
6️⃣$30
🎁 Unity Lucky Awards
In order to further motivate and excite the participants, the following places will be awarded the Lucky Unity Awards:
The 22nd, 33th, 44th, 55th, 66th, 77th, 88th, 99th, 111th and 199th places that will be announced at the end of the tournament by the Lichess site. Each of these players will be paid $20

⏹ Registration requirements:
1️⃣ Fide ID Number
2️⃣ Username
3️⃣ Real name
4️⃣ Sending those information via Telegram or Email to:
@PedramAtoufi
unitychess@gmail.com
*️⃣ Make your payment with your card via PayPal to: info@unitychess.com

⏹ Prohibitions:
1️⃣ Using computers.
2️⃣ Sharing the code with players who have not registered.
3️⃣ Using inappropriate language in chatting.
*️⃣ The goal of this tournament is providing a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!

*️⃣ Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns:
Email: unitychess@gmail.com
Telegram: @PedramAtoufi

♟Sundays with Unity♟

🏅Unity Weekly International Online Tournament U16
April 12th, 2020

⏹ Rules & Regulations:
1️⃣ Boys & Girls Under 16 (January 1st, 2004)
2️⃣ Every Sunday at 9:30 am (Arizona time), 16:30 (GMT)
3️⃣ Time control: 5+2
4️⃣ Website: Lichess
5️⃣ Total time: 90 minutes
6️⃣ The Tournament Entry Fee: $4 by Saturday night at 24:00, after that $10.
✅ Due to the current global situation, Unity Chess Club is offering a reduced entry fee to players in need. To register with the reduced fee, please email the tournament organizer: unitychessclub@gmail.com.
7️⃣ Free entry for the following players:
GM, WGM, IM, WIM, FM, WFM
8️⃣ Participants will be provided with a link and password half hour before the competition begins.
9️⃣ The registration deadline is up to two hours before the tournament starts.
🔟 All prizes will be paid within 2 days
*️⃣ Note: Cash prizes are given to the top four places, ranked by Lichess.

🏆Awards:
1️⃣$60
2️⃣$40
3️⃣$30
4️⃣$20
🎁Unity Lucky Awards
In order to further motivate and excite the participants, the following places will be awarded the Unity Lucky Awards:
The 22nd, 44th, 66th, 88th and 99th places that will be announced at the end of the tournament by Lichess . Each of these players will be paid $15

⏹ Registration requirements:
1️⃣ Lichess Username
2️⃣ Real name
3️⃣ Date of birth
4️⃣ Fide ID Number
5️⃣ Sending those information via Telegram or Email to:
@PedramAtoufi
unitychess@gmail.com
*️⃣ Make your payment with your card via PayPal to: info@unitychess.com

⏹ Prohibitions:
1️⃣ Using computers.
2️⃣ Sharing the code with players who have not registered.
3️⃣ Using inappropriate language in chatting.
*️⃣ The goal of this tournament is providing a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!

*️⃣ Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns:
Email: unitychess@gmail.com
Telegram: @PedramAtoufi

Karpov vs Spassky 1974 candidates semi-final. The match took place in Leningrad. Spassky was a huge favourite but Karpov won the match 7-4 (+4 -1 =6).
Karpov advanced to Karpov-Korchnoi 1975 candidates final which was to be held in Moscow in 16th of september.

@UnityChess

"Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality."

🔸 David Bronstein

@UnityChess

'Chess Life', January 1984.
Seated, L to R: Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Artur Jussupow, Jaan Ehlvest, Smbat Lputian.
Standing: Lev Psakhis, Sergey Dolmatov.
USSR took gold, ahead of West Germany (silver) & Iceland (bronze).
More details: http://olimpbase.org/1983k/1983in.html

An outstanding talent: Arthur Dake

https://en.chessbase.com/post/an-outstanding-talent-arthur-dake

FIDE website looks into the history of #FIDECandidates publishing a story about the first-ever 1950 Candidates Tournament in Budapest that set a trend and paved the way for the historical tournaments such as Zurich-1953.

Read it on our website: https://fide.com/news/475 #chess

✅ Solution: White heavy check mark White makes a draw with paradoxical 1. Kg5!
1... b5
(or 1... Kb3 2. Kxf5 Kc3 3. Ke5! Kxd3 4. Kd5 b5 5. Kc5 with a draw)
2. d4 b4 3. d5 Kb5 4. d6 Kc6 5. Kxf5 Kxd6 6. Ke4 Kc5 7. Kd3 Kb5 8. Kc2 Ka4 9. Kb2 with a draw.

First of all, both Kxf5 and Ke5 lose.

1. Kxf5 loses to b5 2. d4 b4 3. d5 b3 4. d6 b2 5. d7 b1=Q+)

1. Ke5 loses to b5 2. d4 b4 3. d5 b3 4. d6 b2 5. d7 b1=Q 6.d8=Q Qe4+ 7. Kd6 Qd4+ 8. Ke7 Qxd8+ 9. Kxd8 f4

Move of the day!

Daily #chesspuzzle
Spielmann - Tartakower, Vienna 1921

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/120229

Golden Games! Rosenthal vs Allies 1887

Happy 17th birthday to Awonder Liang! 🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂

Awonder won the World Under-8 Championship in 2011, defeated his first grandmaster when he was just nine, and became a grandmaster at 14. 👏

Here are 16 mates and chess combinations from the games of USA GM Awonder Liang (17th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/lian.html + 100s of his games. Find the winning moves. #puzzles

World Chess Champ says:
Stay home and play chess

♟👑🏆🥇

https://t.me/unitychess

Two safe pawns up and one Rook (and King) against just one Rook (and King) wasn´t enough for the World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, to win the former World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

known as the best end game of all time!!

With over a HUNDRED MILLION views: Carlsen and Peter Svidler's final seconds were incredible.

World Champion vs Russian Champion

Grandmaster 2600+ didn't know basic check mate with Bishop + Knight
GM Abdusattorov: rating 2633 vs GM Kovalev: rating 2648
Result: 1/2 1/2