📕 9.Qa4+!N
Interestingly, that this logical move is applied for the first time. 9...Qd7 10.Qc2! There is nothing difficult in the idea of the Black queen being misplaced on d7 - it is especially familiar from the related Queen's Indian Defence.

⚪️#297 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Novikov,Igor A (2420)
🔸Tukmakov,Vladimir B (2550)
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📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 297

C: Rf1 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 78%

A: Rd1 – 1
👍 11%

B: Bf3 – 1
👍 11%

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⚫️#298 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Hall,Jesper (2460)
🔸Baklan,Vladimir (2540)
🔸Bundesliga 1998

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 298

C: Na5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%

B: e5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 33%

A: Rc8
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

At the Hoogovens tournament in Beverwijk, Jan 1965: L to R: Vladimir Bagirov, Yuri Balashov (then, at 15 years of age, the youngest Master of Sport in the Soviet Union) and Efim Geller.

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The US (formerly Australian) grandmaster Walter Shawn Brown (1949-2015), pictured at Wijk aan Zee, January 1974.

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Five World Chess Champions in one photo. How many of them can you identify?

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World champion Anatoly Karpov during a simultaneous exhibition in Trbovlje (former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia), June 1975. The 11-year-old girl featured in this clip managed to convince him to agree on a draw.

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🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2518)
⚫️Pourramezanali,Amirreza (2525)
🔸1-0

🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Matinian,Nikita (2504)
⚫️Darini,Pouria (2492)
🔸0-1

🔹 Magnus Carlsen
🔹 Norwegian Chess Grandmaster And World Champion

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▪️ Magnus Carlsen
▪️ Norwegian Chess Grandmaster And World Champion

♦️ Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Carlsen earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13 years and 148 days.

🔹 Full name: Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
🔹 Country: Norway
🔹 Born: 30 November 1990 (age 28) Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (2004)
🔹 World Champion: 2013–present
🔹 FIDE rating: 2843 (February 2018)
🔹 Peak rating: 2882 (May 2014)
🔹 Ranking: No. 1 (February 2018)
🔹 Peak ranking: No. 1 (January 2010)

♦️Magnus Carlsen is the 16th undisputed World Champion. He won the crown from Viswanathan Anand in November 2013 and successfully defended it in a return contest with the former title holder in November 2014. In November 2016, he retained his crown when he defeated the Challenger, Sergey Karjakin, in the rapid game tiebreaker after the 12-game classical match was tied.

♦️ Landmarks :
FM (2002); IM (2003); GM (2004); vice-World U12 World Champion (2002); Norwegian Champion (2006); Candidate (2007 & 2013); World Champion (2013, 2014 & 2016); World Rapid Champion (2014 & 2015) and World Blitz Champion (2009, 2014 & 2017), winner of the Grand Chess Tour (2015), five-time winner at Wijk aan Zee (2008 (jointly with Levon Aronian), 2010, 2013, 2015 & 2016).

♦️ Carlsen has been the world's top ranked player since January 2010, apart from six months between November 2010 and June 2011 when he was #2, and possesses the highest standard FIDE rating ever posted, as well as the highest ever live rating. In January 2016, he became the first person to be the world #1 in standard, rapid and blitz chess.
Carlsen in world chess champion in Standard and Blitz now.

💢 A memorable game by Carlsen which known "Bilbao Baggins" in chessgames.com site!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Magnus Carlsen vs Levon Aronian
🔸 Grand Slam Chess Final (2008), Bilbao ESP, rd 6, Sep-08
🔸 Semi-Slav Defense: Meran. Wade Variation (D47)

💢 Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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🔹 Carlsen-Aronian, Bilbao 2008
🔹 PGN format

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🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Amonatov,Farrukh (2624)
⚫️Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2518)
🔸0-1

📘 13.Rea1?
Tajik GM Farrukh Amonatov has made a blunder.
13...Nb4! 14.Qd2 B×d4 15.Q×d4 N×c2 16.Qd2 N×e1 -+

🔸Karun Cup 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Pourramezanali,Amirreza (2525)
⚫️Ghaem Maghami,Ehsan (2525)
🔸0-1

📘 21.Nd2
Pourramezanali has missed the strongest continuation: 21.Na×c5!! B×c5 22.Rh6+- (with the idea of Rdh1) White is completely winning.
21.Ng6 Ne4 +/-