⚫️#268 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Ni Hua (2568)
🔸Palliser,Richard (2337)
🔸Wch U20 Athens 2001

📕23...Ra4!
An excellent move, activating the rook and forcing white to address the issue of his king.
23...Bd6 and even 23...exf4 would be met by 24.0-0-0!

⚪️#269 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Wells,Peter K (2522)
🔸Short,Nigel D (2676)
🔸EU-ch 2nd Ohrid 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 269

C: f4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 77%

B: Qe3 – 2
👍 15%

A: Red1 – 1
👍 8%

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚫️#270 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Brynell,Stellan (2489)
🔸Akesson,Ralf (2463)
🔸SWE-ch Linköping 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 270

A: Bc6 – 14
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%

C: Nc6 – 2
👍 13%

B: b5
▫️ 0%

👥 16 people voted so far.

Hastings 1895 (won by Harry Nelson Pillsbury)

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John Quincy Adams was the 6th President of the US & avid chess player. He may have lost the Presidency because of chess. Jackson supporters charged that Adams used public funds to buy an expensive ivory chess set for him. Adams had paid for the chess set with his own money.

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Alexander Alekhine playing a game of living chess, against Bogoljubow, at the Münsterplatz, Villingen, Germany in April 1934.

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🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Firouzja Alireza (2549)
⚫️Gholami Aryan(2489)
🔸1-0

🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Khademalsharieh Sarasadat (2413)
⚫️Pourramezanali Amirreza (2525)
🔸0-1

🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Gholami Aryan (2489)
⚫️Sedaghati Mehrdad (2215)
🔸1-0

📘 13...N×e4!?
An interesting novelty by Mehrdad Sedaghati. The moves 13...Qc8 and 13...b5 have already been played.
14.N×e4 f5 15.Nfd2 f×e4 16.N×e4 =

🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Idani Pouya (2595)
⚫️Fendereski Nima (2314)
🔸1-0

📘 32...Bf3??
A blunder that is fully exploited by Iran's highest rated chess player, Pouya Idani.
Pouya was the U18 champion in the 2013 World Youth Chess Championship.
33.h6! B×g4 34.h×g7 Re8 35.Rg3 1-0

🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Khatibi Meysam (2276)
⚫️Maghsoodloo Parham (2594)
🔸0-1