📘 40-year-old Tajikistan grandmaster exploits white's pieces poor placement.
23...Qc5! 24.Rc4 Nd3+! 25.c×d3 Q×h5 26.e5 Q×e5 0-1

🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Korneev,Oleg (2554)
⚫️Khodashenas,Mersad (2397)
🔸0-1

📘 33.N×d5??
Russian grandmaster has made a blunder. He could have obtained counterplay with 33.Nc6.
33...Qd4+ 34.Kf1 Q×d5+ -+

⚪️#287 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Botvinnik,Mikhail
🔸Petrosian,Tigran
🔸World Championship

📕 11.Kf1!
Botvinnik demonstrated a high degree of chess understanding.
The king belongs on g2. Leaving the rook on h1 makes sense both aggressively and as a safety precaution.

⚪️#289 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Graf,Alexander (2605)
🔸Dizdarevic,Emir (2502)
🔸Skopje op 2002

📕 17.d5!
White has to act quickly in order to exploit the exposed position of the black king. It's nice that white's king-side expansion forced black's forces into bad positions which then enables a central breakthrough. Textbook stuff!

⚫️#290 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Horak,Michal (2310)
🔸Kiselev,Sergey (2470)
🔸Pardubice op 1993

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 290

A: f6 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

B: g5 – 3
👍👍 21%

C: b5 – 1
👍 7%

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In 1965, as a student of Erasmus High (the same HS that Fischer attended), Walter Browne (1949-2015) won the Senior HS Ch of the NY Interscholastic League. In 1966, he won the US Jr Ch. He won the National Open 11 times and the American Open 8 times. He won the US Ch 6 times.

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The start of the 1974 Candidates semifinal match between Anatoly Karpov and Boris Spassky, Leningrad, April 1974.

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Simen Agdestein, Judit Polgar and Nigel Short in Lewis - 1995

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🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2480)
⚫️Amonatov,Farrukh (2624)
🔸0-1

🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Korneev,Oleg (2554)
⚫️Khodashenas,Mersad (2397)
🔸0-1

💢 John L. Watson
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