🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 12
⚪️Anand,Viswanathan (2782)
⚫️Bacrot,Etienne (2725)
🔸1-0

📘 42.B×g7? Q×g7?
An incorrect sacrifice. Black could have won a piece by the intermediate move 42...Re6!.
43.Qe4+ Qg6 44.Q×a4 +-

🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 12
⚪️Sethuraman,S.P (2646)
⚫️Bu,Xiangzhi (2730)
🔸0-1

📘 52.Ne1??
Sethuraman's strange blunder that allows Black to mate him in two moves.
52...Bf4+ 53.Kh3 Rh1# 0-1

⚪️#217 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Cabrilo,G
🔸Ziatdinov,R
🔸Belgrade, 1991

📕 24.Be1!
A strong positional play. White clears the d2- square for the passive knight on f3 to accomplish the maneuver Nd2-b3-a5-c6.

⚪️#218 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hracek,Z
🔸Almasi,Z
🔸Odorheiu Secuiesc, 1995

📕 29.Bxb6!
A strong exchange that secures the d5-square for the knight, and creates a "good knight vs. bad bishop" scenario.
29.Kf2 or 29.Red1 allows 29...Nc4 with a comfortable game for Black.

⚫️#219 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Barcza,Gedeon
🔸Karpov,Anatoly
🔸Caracas 1970

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 219

C: f5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%

A: B×d5 – 1
👍 8%

B: Bd7 – 1
👍 8%

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚪️#220 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Capablanca,Jose Raul
🔸Blackburne,Joseph Henry
🔸St Petersburg International 1914

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 220

C: h3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 69%

B: a4 – 4
👍👍👍 31%

A: Rb1
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 12
⚪️Savchenko,Boris (2566)
⚫️Korobov,Anton (2652)
🔸0-1

🌸 Olga Girya
🌸 Russian chess grandmaster

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🌸 Olga Girya
🌸 Russian chess woman chess grandmaster


♦️ Olga Alexandrovna Girya is a Russian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.
She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team in the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad and the 2017 Women's World Team Chess Championship.

♦️ WGM (2009). Olga was runner up in the World U16 Girls Championship in 2007. In 2009 she won both the European and World Girls U18 Championships. In 2010, she was runner up to Anna Muzychuk with 10.5/13 at the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2010) in Poland, second at the Women's Russian Championship with 6.5/9, and scored 6/10 on board 2 for Russia 2 at the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2010). Her equal second in the August 2010 Russian Women's Championship behind WGM Nazi Paikidze qualified her for the 60th Russian Women's Superfinal (2010) in November 2010, at which time she scored 4.5/11 although one of her two wins was against Alisa Galliamova, who was equal first in the tournament. She scored 4.5/9 in the Moscow Open 2011 B - Young GM in January 2011 and in August 2011 she came second in the World Junior Championships (Girls) (2011). She won the Moscow Open - B (women's division in the event) in 2014 outright after beating wunderkind Aleksandra Goryachkina in the final round. She collected 4.5 points on reserve board at the World Team Chess Championship (Women) (2017) in 6 games for Russia's reserve board, securing their team the win.

♦️ Girya qualified for the FIDE Knock-out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated IM Iweta Radziewicz Rajlich in the first round before losing to French GM Marie Sebag in the second round.

🔹 Full name: Olga Alexandrovna Girya
🔹Country: Russia
🔹Born: 4 June 1991 (age 26) Langepas, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔹Title: Woman Grandmaster (2009)
🔹FIDE rating: 2489 (January 2018)
🔹Peak rating: 2505 (September 2017)

♦️ A memorable game by Olga Giria 👇🏼👇🏼

▪️ Zhao Xue vs Olga Girya
▪️ FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty - Mansiysk (2014), Khanty-Mansiysk RUS, rd 6, Apr-15
▪️ Slav Defense: General (D10)

♦️ Review and download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼

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▪️ Zhao Xue vs Olga Girya
▪️ FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty - Mansiysk (2014), Khanty-Mansiysk RUS, rd 6, Apr-15
▪️ Slav Defense: General (D10)

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▪️ Zhao Xue - Olga Girya , FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty - Mansiysk (2014)
▪️ PGN format

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🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 12
⚪️Sethuraman,S.P (2646)
⚫️Bu,Xiangzhi (2730)
🔸0-1