📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 181

B: Qf5 – 17
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%

C: f6 – 2
👍 11%

A: Bd7
▫️ 0%

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⚫️#182 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gustafsson,Jan (2629)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2799)
🔸Dortmund SuperGM 40th 2012

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 182

A: R×e3 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 65%

B: Nb4 – 5
👍👍👍 25%

C: Ne7 – 2
👍 10%

👥 20 people voted so far.

▪️ Levon Aronian
▪️ Armenian chess grandmaster

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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 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 vs Ding Liren
💢 World Cup (2017), Tbilisi GEO, rd 7, Sep-27
💢 PGN format
💢 Annotated By Dejan Bojkov

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🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 9
⚪️Hracek,Zbynek (2592)
⚫️Navara,David (2740)
🔸0-1

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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🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 10
⚪️Tari,Aryan (2593)
⚫️Zhigalko,Sergei (2641)
🔸0-1

🔸Nutcracker Classical 2017 Moscow RUS
🔸Round 1
⚪️Yuffa,Daniil (2522)
⚫️Rublevsky,Sergei (2683)
🔸½-½

📘 11.Ng5!
Preventing Black from castling and also to prepare the maneuver Ne4-d6.
11...Nc6
(11...o-o 12.Qb1! +/-)
(11...h6 12.Ne4)
12.Qh5 Qe7 13.h4 Bb7 14.Rh3

🔸Nutcracker Classical 2017 Moscow RUS
🔸Round 1
⚪️Yuffa,Daniil (2522)
⚫️Rublevsky,Sergei (2683)
🔸½-½

📘 23.R×a6
An interesting exchange sacrifice by the 20 years old, Russian Grandmaster.
23...Ne4
(23...B×a6 24.Rf3)
24.Rf3 Qe8 25.Bf4 B×a6 26.Q×e4 +/-

🔸Nutcracker Classical 2017 Moscow RUS
🔸Round 1
⚪️Yuffa,Daniil (2522)
⚫️Rublevsky,Sergei (2683)
🔸½-½

📘 28.Bh2?
Yuffa missed his opportunity. He could have obtained a huge advantage by playing:
(28.B×h5! Qd7 29.Bg4 +-)
(28.B×h5! R×h5?? 29.Qa8+ Mate in 3 Moves)

🔸Nutcracker Classical 2017 Moscow RUS
🔸Round 3
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2799)
⚫️Yuffa,Daniil (2522)
🔸1-0

📘 27.R×g6+
Mamedyarov's finishing sacrifice
K×g6 28.Ne5+ 1-0
(if 28...Kf5 29.e4+ Kf4 30.Qf6#)
(if 28...kg7 or 28...Kh6 the black king will soon be checkmated)