‏Boris Gelfand‌‏ & ‎Nigel Short‌‏

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🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 6
⚪️Dziuba,Marcin (2584)
⚫️Fedorchuk,Sergey A (2648)
🔸1-0

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 6
⚪️Navara,David (2740)
⚫️Tomczak,Jacek (2588)
🔸1-0

🔹 Vladimir Kramnik
🔹 Russian chess Grandmaster

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🔹 Vladimir Kramnik
🔹 Russian chess Grandmaster


♦️ Full name: Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
♦️ Country: Russia
♦️ Born: 25 June 1975 (age 42) Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russian
♦️ Title: Grandmaster (1992)
♦️ World Champion: 2000–06 (Classical) 2006–07 (undisputed)
♦️ FIDE rating: 2787 (December 2017)
♦️ Peak rating: 2817 (October 2016)
♦️ Ranking: No. 7 (November 2017)
♦️ Peak ranking: No. 1 (January 1996)

🔹 Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster.
He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007.

🔹 Today's sellected game of Vladimir Kramnik: 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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🔸 Vladimir Kramnik vs Levon Aronian
🔸 FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007), Mexico City , rd 14, Sep-29
🔸 Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto. Check Variation Intermezzo Line (E15)

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🔸 Vladimir Kramnik vs Levon Aronian
🔸 FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007), Mexico City , rd 14, Sep-29
🔸PGN format

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🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Inarkiev,Ernesto (2689)
⚫️Jaracz,Pawel (2465)
🔸1-0

📘 33...Qe7
Jaracz who was in time trouble has played 33...Qe7, however, he could have obtained an advantage by playing 33...Qe5:
33...Qe5!! 34.R×b7 Qe1+ 35.Kh2 Bd6 idea Rd1 36.Qe4 Q×f2 37.Qf3 Q×f3 38.g×f3 Rd2+ 39.Kg1 B×g3 or Rd1+ -+

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Inarkiev,Ernesto (2689)
⚫️Jaracz,Pawel (2465)
🔸1-0

📘 40...Qd7?
Polish Grandmaster, replies to opponent's intermediate move with a tactical counter-blow.
41.R×f8! K×f8 42.Q×c5+ 1-0

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Fressinet,Laurent (2662)
⚫️Kourousis,Epaminondas (2393)
🔸1-0

📘 27.Rfd1?
Fressinet made a blunder which Kourousis, 26 years old Czech international master, didn't exploit.
27...Qc6
(27...B×a5! 28.Q×a5 Qc5+ 29.Kh1 Rg5 30.Rd7+ Kc8 -+ White must resign)

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 6
⚪️Dziuba,Marcin (2584)
⚫️Fedorchuk,Sergey A (2648)
🔸1-0

📘 27...Kg8?
Ukrainian Grandmaster's carelessness which costs him the game.
(27...Kf8! White has to give perpetual check
28.Qe8+ Kg7 29.Ne5! a1=Q 30.Q×f7+ Kh6 31.Qf8+ Kh5 32.g4+ Kg5 33.f4+ 1-0

⚪️#179 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Panno,Oscar
🔸Buenos Aires 1970

📘 18.g4!
A dual purpose-move:
1.Fischer clears the g3-square for the knight in preparation for a kingside assault.
2. By playing g4, Black's knight is deprived of the f5-square.
18.h4 Nf5.
18.Rc2 doubling the rooks on c-file does not fit with this position. 18...Qb6 19.Rec1? Bxe2!
Fischer thoroughly knows in the closed Sicilian the black king is the main target!

⚪️#180 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Ibrahimoglu,Ismet
🔸Siegen ol (Men) 1970

📘 18.Nb1!
White regroups his knight to transfer to d5 or b5 via c3.
18.f4? opening the opponent dark bishop's diagonal is not logical.18...exf4 19.Bxf4 Be5.
18.Ra6 only helps black to move his knight to d4- square: 18...Nb8! 19.Ra2 Nc6 20.c3 Nd4!