📘 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)
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)
📘 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
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
📘 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!
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!
📘 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!
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!
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 181
B: Qf5 – 17
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
C: f6 – 2
👍 11%
A: Bd7
▫️ 0%
👥 19 people voted so far.
B: Qf5 – 17
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
C: f6 – 2
👍 11%
A: Bd7
▫️ 0%
👥 19 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 182
A: R×e3 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 65%
B: Nb4 – 5
👍👍👍 25%
C: Ne7 – 2
👍 10%
👥 20 people voted so far.
A: R×e3 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 65%
B: Nb4 – 5
👍👍👍 25%
C: Ne7 – 2
👍 10%
👥 20 people voted so far.
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▪️ Levon Aronian
▪️ Armenian chess grandmaster
♦️ Levon Grigori Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.
On the March 2014 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2830, making him the fourth highest rated player in history.
🔸 Full nam: Levon Grigori Aronian
🔸Country: Armenia Germany (October 2003−August 2004)
🔸Born; 6 October 1982 (age 35) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
🔸Title: Grandmaster
🔸FIDE rating: 2805 (December 2017)
🔸Peak rating: 2830 (March 2014)
🔸Ranking: No. 2 (October 2017)
🔸Peak ranking: No. 2 (January 2012)
♦️ Aronian has been the leading Armenian chess player since the early 2000s.
His popularity in Armenia has led to him being called a celebrity, and a hero. He was named the best sportsman of Armenia in 2005 and was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia in 2009.
In 2016, CNN called Aronian the "David Beckham of chess"
♦️ Levon Aronian has had a fantastic year, both on and off the chessboard. The world no. 2 won the GRENKE Chess Classic, Altibox Norway Chess, the St. Louis Rapid & Blitz and finally the World Cup, before then marrying his long-term girlfriend Arianne Caoili.
♦️ Review a prrety game by Aronian and download it's annotated PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Levon Aronian vs Ding Liren
🔹World Cup (2017), Tbilisi GEO, rd 7, Sep-27
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Hastings Variation (D30)
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▪️ Levon Aronian
▪️ Armenian chess grandmaster
♦️ Levon Grigori Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.
On the March 2014 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2830, making him the fourth highest rated player in history.
🔸 Full nam: Levon Grigori Aronian
🔸Country: Armenia Germany (October 2003−August 2004)
🔸Born; 6 October 1982 (age 35) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
🔸Title: Grandmaster
🔸FIDE rating: 2805 (December 2017)
🔸Peak rating: 2830 (March 2014)
🔸Ranking: No. 2 (October 2017)
🔸Peak ranking: No. 2 (January 2012)
♦️ Aronian has been the leading Armenian chess player since the early 2000s.
His popularity in Armenia has led to him being called a celebrity, and a hero. He was named the best sportsman of Armenia in 2005 and was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia in 2009.
In 2016, CNN called Aronian the "David Beckham of chess"
♦️ Levon Aronian has had a fantastic year, both on and off the chessboard. The world no. 2 won the GRENKE Chess Classic, Altibox Norway Chess, the St. Louis Rapid & Blitz and finally the World Cup, before then marrying his long-term girlfriend Arianne Caoili.
♦️ Review a prrety game by Aronian and download it's annotated PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Levon Aronian vs Ding Liren
🔹World Cup (2017), Tbilisi GEO, rd 7, Sep-27
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Hastings Variation (D30)
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💢 World Cup (2017), Tbilisi GEO, rd 7, Sep-27
💢 Queen's Gambit Declined: Hastings Variation (D30)
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💢 Queen's Gambit Declined: Hastings Variation (D30)
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💢 World Cup (2017), Tbilisi GEO, rd 7, Sep-27
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💢 Annotated By Dejan Bojkov
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💢 Annotated By Dejan Bojkov
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🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 9
⚪️Hracek,Zbynek (2592)
⚫️Navara,David (2740)
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🔸Round 9
⚪️Hracek,Zbynek (2592)
⚫️Navara,David (2740)
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Grandmasters Miroslav Filip & Lev Polugaevsky, photographed at the Hoogovens tournament at Beverwijk, January 1966. Filip was a big man - he stood 6' 9" (2.07m) tall!
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Groningen, 1946. Salo Flohr, Mikhail Botvinnik, Aleksandr Kotov, Vasily Smyslov and Herman Steiner.
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José Raúl Capablanca v. Nikolai Riumin, from the 3rd round of the 3rd Moscow International tournament, 11th May 1936.
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