⚪️#153 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Ivanchuk,V
🔸Tabatadze,T
🔸Leningrad

📘 14.Ra4!
White prevents ...c5-c4, defends e4 horizontally along the rank and vacates the long a1-h8 diagonal.
14.Qf1 Nd4 15.Rg3 c4(15...e6!?) 16.Bxc4 Nxc2.
14.Nxb5 axb5 15.Bxb5 Nxe4 with a complicated game.

⚪️#154 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Ivanchuk,Vassily (2695)
🔸Anand,Viswanathan (2720)
🔸Buenos Aires 1994

📘 17.h4!
Ivanchuk initiates a kingside assault based on the opening of the h-file with h4-h5.
17.Bxc5? Rxc5 It is obvious that after this exchange black is ok. Without his dark-square bishop, white cannot hope to succeed an attack against the enemy king.
17.Bd4 Bxd5 18.exd5 Bxd4 19.Qxd4 Qf8 with the idea of Qf8.

⚪️#155 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Tal,Mihail
🔸Bled 1961

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 155

B: Be2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%

A: Bg2 – 1
👍 17%

C: B×e5
▫️ 0%

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⚪️#156 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Portisch,Lajos
🔸Havana ol (Men 1966

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 156

A: c4 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 92%

B: Be3 – 1
👍 8%

C: f4
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

The participants of the 2nd Piatigorsky Cup (Santa Monica 1966) - Portisch, Fischer, Spassky, Donner, Larsen, Najdorf, Ivkov, Petrosian, Unzicker - with Mrs Piatigorsky.

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The 23rd(!) & final-round game between Vasily Smyslov (USSR) & Bent Larsen (Denmark) from the FIDE Interzonal Tournament, Amsterdam, May-June 1964. The game was drawn in 49 moves..

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Kasparov and Botvinnik

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🔸London Chess Classic 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2760)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2799)
🔸0-1

🔸London Chess Classic 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2799)
⚫️Anand,Viswanathan (2782)
🔸1-0

🔸 Efim Bogoljubov
🔸 Chess composer and German chess grandmaster
🔸 Born: April 14, 1889, Tarashcha, Ukraine
🔸 Died: June 18, 1952, Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany

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🔸 Efim Bogoljubov
🔸Chess composer
🔸 Winner Of Moscow (1925) Super Toutnament

💢 Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches against Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.
💢 Born: April 14, 1889, Tarashcha, Ukraine
💢 Died: June 18, 1952, Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany
💢 Title: Grandmaster

🔸 One of the important tournament that Bogoljubov win it, was Moscow Super Toutnament in 1925.
🔸 The story of this tournament:

▪️ At the end of the USSR Championship (1925), Efim Bogoljubov emerged as the champion.
He had participated as a Russian national although he was living in Triberg, Germany at the time.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, head of the Soviet Chess Association, in an effort to popularize chess in the Soviet Union, organized an international tournament of the scope seen in New York (1924) a year earlier.
The event was held in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow from November 7 to December 10.
In addition to the Soviet Champion, ten foreign masters, including Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul Capablanca, the former and current World Champions respectively, and ten Soviet players were invited to compete in the round robin format.
Before the start of the tournament pundits expected a repeat of New York, with Capablanca and Lasker racing each other to the finish, but once it was under way Bogoljubov was the one who performed supremely, ultimately winning the tournament ahead of the two favorites. His victory was hailed as a Soviet triumph, and in truth the tournament was an unprecedented success for the Revolution. Hundreds of Soviet citizens gathered at the hotel to follow the games, and tens of thousands across the country awaited news from Moscow each day.
The celebration would be a bittersweet one for Soviet Russia, however, as Bogoljubov would never participate in another Soviet event.
He defected a year later and eventually became a German citizen, earning him the moniker "renegade" (as Alekhine had).
It was also a tournament that would be of enormous historical importance.

🔸 See the final crosstable and Player's full list of this tournament and review a memorable game from Bogoljubov in this super tournament 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Final crosstable and Player's full list of Moscow (1925) Super Toutnament

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🔸 Efim Bogoljubov - Ernst Gruenfeld , Moscow (1925), URS, rd 1, Nov-10
🔸 Download PGN file of this game 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼


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🔸 Efim Bogoljubov - Ernst Gruenfeld , Moscow (1925), URS, rd 1, Nov-10
🔸 PGN format


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