📕 1.g4!
White has pinned Black's rooks by defence of the d5 pawn. The bishop on b2 is stronger than the knight on c6, but the weakness of the d5 pawn is not enough to realize an advantage. White should create another weakness. White with this move, Supported by the bishop on b2, the pawn attack on the kingside must create one more weakness.

⚫️#237 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Flohr
🔸Botvinnik
🔸Leningrad, 1933

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 237

B: Nf6 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 61%

C: Na4 – 6
👍👍👍👍 33%

A: N×b3 – 1
👍 6%

👥 18 people voted so far.

⚫️#238 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Taimanov
🔸Larsen
🔸Vinkovcy, 1970

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 238

B: Rd8 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%

C: g5 – 7
👍👍👍👍 35%

A: Be6 – 2
👍 10%

👥 20 people voted so far.

Tigran Petrosian & Genna Sosonko in conversation at the IBM tournament in Amsterdam, July 1973.

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1958 -Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time. Fischer was 14 years of age.

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Viktor Korchnoi v. Mikhail Tal, Hoogovens tournament, Wijk aan Zee, January 1968.

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Korchnoi won this game, the last of 8 successive victories at the start of this 15-round event, which he eventually won by 3 clear points.

The Australian born, Walter Browne, US-American grandmaster won twice at Wijk aan Zee, in 1974 outright, and in 1980, shared with rising fellow-countryman, Syrian born GM Yasser Seirawan.

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Yasser Seirawan in 1973 , at Wijk aan Zee (Hoogovens) in 1980 together with Walter Browne.

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🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Wei,Yi (2743)
⚫️Jones,Gawain C B (2640)
🔸1-0

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Adhiban,Baskaran (2655)
⚫️Anand,Viswanathan (2767)
🔸½-½

🔹 Tata Steel 2018, round 9 start
🔹 Schedule of games 👇🏼👇🏼

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🔹Tata Steel Masters Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 9 - Tuesday the 23rd 👇🏼👇🏼

🔸Jones, Gawain C B - Hou, Yifan
🔸Anand, Viswanathan - Carlsen, Magnus
🔸So, Wesley - Svidler, Peter
🔸Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Kramnik, Vladimir
🔸Matlakov, Maxim - Giri, Anish
🔸Karjakin, Sergey - Wei, Yi
🔸Caruana, Fabiano - Adhiban, B.

▪️ Live broadcasting : 👇🏼👇🏼

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🔹 Tata Steel Challengers Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 9 - Tuesday the 23rd 👇🏼👇🏼

🔸Tari, Aryan - Bok, Benjamin
🔸Krasenkow, Michal - Van Foreest, Jorden
🔸Amin, Bassem - Girya, Olga
🔸Harika, Dronavalli - Korobov, Anton
🔸L'Ami, Erwin - Xiong, Jeffery
🔸Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi - Bluebaum, Matthias
🔸Van Foreest, Lucas - Gordievsky, Dmitry

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🔹 Results of Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔹 After Round Eight

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🔹 Results of Tata Steel Challengers 2018
🔹 After Round Eight

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💟 Hou Yifan
💟 Chinese chess grandmaster

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💟 Hou Yifan
💟 Chinese chess grandmaster

♦️ Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy.
She has been the Women's World Chess Champion three times, the youngest ever to win the title, as well as the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.

🔸Country: China
🔸Born: 27 February 1994 (age 24) Xinghua, Jiangsu, China
🔸Title: Grandmaster (2008) Woman Grandmaster
🔸Women's World Champion: 2010–2012, 2013–2015, 2016–2017
🔸FIDE rating: 2680 (January 2018)
🔸Peak rating: 2686 (March 2015)

♦️Hou Yifan started playing chess at age 6. She is the youngest female in the history of chess to acquire the GM title, and was the youngest GM in the world when she acquired the title. At 14, she was the youngest ever finalist in a Women's World Championship contest. Winning the Women's World Championship title in 2010 at the age of 16 made her the youngest Women's World Champion ever, beating the mark long held by the legendary Maia Chiburdanidze who won the title in 1978 at the age of 17. In 2011, she successfully defended her title by winning the best-of-ten Hou - Koneru Women's World Championship (2011) by 5.5-2.5 (+3 =5 -0), also making her the youngest Women's World Champion to defend her title, and the youngest to do so successfully.

♦️ A memorable game by Hou Yifan which known "Hou Yifan's Favorite Game"👇🏼👇🏼
▪️ Yifan Hou vs Francisco Vallejo Pons
▪️ Corus Group B (2009), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 12, Jan-31
▪️ Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian. General (B30)

♦️Review and download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼


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