⚫️#299 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Topalov,Veselin (2700)
🔸Anand,Viswanathan (2781)
🔸Linares 16th 1999

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 299

B: e5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

C: g5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%

A: Q×d6 – 1
👍 13%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#300 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Uhlmann,Wolfgang
🔸Buenos Aires 1960

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 300

C: Nf7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%

A: g4 – 3
👍👍👍👍 33%

B: Ne4
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

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

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🔸Round 8
⚪️Darini,Pouria (2492)
⚫️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2480)
🔸1-0

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🔸Round 3
⚪️Petrosian,Tigran L (2589)
⚫️Sethuraman,S.P (2646)
🔸1-0

📘 35...B×d5??
A blunder; black is ignoring his own king's position.
36.N×d5 Qg4+ 37.Kh2 1-0
if 37...R×d5 38.Re8+ Kf7 39.Qf8#

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2594)
⚫️Sjugirov,Sanan (2652)
🔸1-0

📘 17.Qe4!
A multi-purpose move:
- Attacking the b7 and g6-pawn.
- Protecting his own king against any sudden attack like Nf6 and Qg4.
17...Q×c2 18.Na3 B×a3 19.b×a3 Nc5 20.Q×g6 Rad8 21.Qf5 Q×d3 22.Q×d3 N×d3 23.B×b7 White is slightly better.

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🔸Round 3
⚪️Salomon,Johan (2503)
⚫️Gordievsky,Dmitry (2630)
🔸0-1

📘 40...B×f3!
A perfect calculation by 22-year-old Russian grandmaster.
41.Nc3
(41.B×f3 N×f3 42.Q×f2 Qd2 -+)
41...B×e2+ 42.N×e2 Qd5 -+

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Gholami,Aryan (2489)
⚫️Alekseenko,Kirill (2609)
🔸0-1