📘 33.Rd1
Ding Liren has missed a typical checkmate in three moves. He is a three-time Chinese champion.
(33.Rh8+ K×h8 34.Qh6+ Kg8 35.Qg7# )
Ding Liren has missed a typical checkmate in three moves. He is a three-time Chinese champion.
(33.Rh8+ K×h8 34.Qh6+ Kg8 35.Qg7# )
📕 25.c5!!
An ugly-looking move, but Kramnik knows what he is doing. The opening of the d-file is a vital facet of his strategy. He is aware that Black is obliged to exchange on e5, so there won't be a weak white pawn on d4; and secondly, he has judged that the black knight will never get the chance to sit in majesty on the d5-square.
25.f4? bxc4 26.Nxc4 (26.bxc4? Bxe5 then Nxc4) Rhd8 and the d4-pawn would be weak.
25.Rh3 is also faced with the same idea.
An ugly-looking move, but Kramnik knows what he is doing. The opening of the d-file is a vital facet of his strategy. He is aware that Black is obliged to exchange on e5, so there won't be a weak white pawn on d4; and secondly, he has judged that the black knight will never get the chance to sit in majesty on the d5-square.
25.f4? bxc4 26.Nxc4 (26.bxc4? Bxe5 then Nxc4) Rhd8 and the d4-pawn would be weak.
25.Rh3 is also faced with the same idea.
📕 17.Qf1!
The white queen takes up the post that the rook has so kindly vacated. There is no player in the history of chess as adept at dominating his opponent from the back rank as Karpov. Let's pause a moment and take stock. White's pawn structure isn't perfect, but his pawns are harder to attack than Black's, whose a5- and c6-pawns are split, and e5-pawn unprotected. In contrast, White's isolated pawn on e4 is well defended. The fact that Black has played ...g7-g6 makes him more vulnerable on the f-file: if the pawn were back on g7, the black knight on f6 would be on a rock-solid platform, and there would also be no ideas of Bh6, driving the black rook from f8, followed by a direct attack with the white queen and rooks against f7. Thinking about squares, Black is somewhat fragile on the light squares due to the exchange of his light-squared bishop. In this regard, we see that the c4-square would make a very attractive post for the white queen, or possibly the white bishop. On c4 the queen would have an eye both on the f7-square and on the c6-pawn. To summarize, Karpov will be looking to build up pressure along the f-file as his main plan of campaign. As what might be described as a diversionary tactic, he will also try to interfere with the smooth operation of the black pieces by forcing them to defend pawns on the queenside.
The white queen takes up the post that the rook has so kindly vacated. There is no player in the history of chess as adept at dominating his opponent from the back rank as Karpov. Let's pause a moment and take stock. White's pawn structure isn't perfect, but his pawns are harder to attack than Black's, whose a5- and c6-pawns are split, and e5-pawn unprotected. In contrast, White's isolated pawn on e4 is well defended. The fact that Black has played ...g7-g6 makes him more vulnerable on the f-file: if the pawn were back on g7, the black knight on f6 would be on a rock-solid platform, and there would also be no ideas of Bh6, driving the black rook from f8, followed by a direct attack with the white queen and rooks against f7. Thinking about squares, Black is somewhat fragile on the light squares due to the exchange of his light-squared bishop. In this regard, we see that the c4-square would make a very attractive post for the white queen, or possibly the white bishop. On c4 the queen would have an eye both on the f7-square and on the c6-pawn. To summarize, Karpov will be looking to build up pressure along the f-file as his main plan of campaign. As what might be described as a diversionary tactic, he will also try to interfere with the smooth operation of the black pieces by forcing them to defend pawns on the queenside.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 217
B: Be1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
A: Bc2 – 1
👍 10%
C: Nh4 – 1
👍 10%
👥 10 people voted so far.
B: Be1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
A: Bc2 – 1
👍 10%
C: Nh4 – 1
👍 10%
👥 10 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 218
A: B×b6 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 85%
B: Kf2 – 1
👍 8%
C: Red1 – 1
👍 8%
👥 13 people voted so far.
A: B×b6 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 85%
B: Kf2 – 1
👍 8%
C: Red1 – 1
👍 8%
👥 13 people voted so far.
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💢 Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
♦️ Teimour Radjabov is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster currently ranked as #2 in Azerbaijan and #17 in the world.
🔹 Full name: Teymur Rəcəbov
🔹Country: Azerbaijan
🔹Title: Grandmaster
🔹FIDE rating: 2748 (January 2018)
🔹Peak rating: 2793 (November 2012)
🔹Ranking: No. 17 (December 2017)
🔹Peak ranking: No. 4 (October 2012)
♦️ Teimour Radjabov was born March 12, 1987 in Baku and started playing chess when he was four years old. He became an International Master in 1999 at the age of 11 years and 11 months and in 2001, at the age of 14 years and 14 days, he became the youngest Grandmaster in the world at the time, and the second youngest person after Bu Xiangzhi ever to become a GM at that time. In January 2002, with a rating of 2599 he entered FIDE's World Top 100 rating list, the 2nd youngest to ever do so after Judit Polgar, with an initial world ranking of 93rd. He has remained on this list ever since. He became the youngest player ever to defeat long-time World Champion Garry Kasparov in 2003. That same year he tallied wins against FIDE World Champions Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov.
♦️ In 1994, Radjabov won an U9-Tournament in Dresden winning all games. He was U10 European Champion 1996 and 1997, and U12 European and World Champion in 1998. In 1999, he won the European Under-18 Championship when he was still 12, a record that still stands.
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▪️ European Team Championship (2017), Hersonissos GRE, rd 8, Nov-05
▪️ Zukertort Opening: Sicilian Invitation (A04)
♦️ Review and download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼
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▪️ European Team Championship (2017), Hersonissos GRE, rd 8, Nov-05
▪️ Zukertort Opening: Sicilian Invitation (A04)
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