Open Aeroflot 2018 — excerpt from final ranking after Round 9

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2594)
⚫️Wen,Yang (2608)
🔸1-0

📘 11.Qe2!
A Multi-purpose move:
- Clearing the diagonal for the light-squared bishop.
- The possibility of d4 in case of ...Ba3.
- Bringing the queen to the better position.
11...a5 12.Nc3 Ba3 13.d4 B×b2 14.Q×b2 h6 15.Rfe1

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.amin (2577)
⚫️Sasikiran,Krishnan (2671)
🔸1-0

📘 White is completely winning because of his more active king and less pawn islands.
46.b4!
White before transferring the king to the kingside, gains more space on the queenside.
46...Be4 47.a4 Bf3 48.Bf5 Bg2 49.f4 Bf3 50.b5 a×b5 51.a×b5 Be2 52.Be4 Bf1 53.Kc5 Ka7 54.f5 h5 55.Kd6 +-

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Romanov,Evgeny (2621)
⚫️Fedoseev,Vladimir3 (2724)
🔸1-0

📘 3...g5!?
A surprising novelty in the 3rd move by Fedoseev.
4.d4 Bg7 5.d5 Ne5 6.d×e6 f×e6 7.Nf3 Nf7 8.h4 g4 9.Ng5 Ne5 10.f4 Nc6 11.e3
In 2013 Romanov won the bronze medal at the European Individual Chess Championship.

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gordievsky,Dmitry (2630)
⚫️Romanov,Evgeny (2621)
🔸1-0

📘 43.Nf5+!
A spectacular finish!
43...R×f5
(43...Kh7 44.Rg7+ Kh8 45.Rd7)
44.Rg6+! 1-0
(if 44...K×g6 then, 45.e×f5+ K×f5 46.c7)

⚪️#305 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hebden,Mark (2549)
🔸Davies,Nigel R (2502)
🔸Gibraltar Masters Catalan Bay ENG 2004

26.d5!
Emphasising the lack of coordination in Black's position by sticking a wedge between the two wings.

⚪️#306 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Miles,Anthony J (2545)
🔸Michaelides,Evan (2280)
🔸Lone Pine op 1980

📘 14.Ra2!
Frees the queen and ensures that any exchange of bishops should lead to pressure against b7.

⚪️#307 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Prokopchuk,Evgeny (2440)
🔸Brodsky,Michail (2515)
🔸RUS-Cup4 Perm 1997

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 307

C: Qc2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%

A: Re1 – 3
👍👍👍👍 33%

B: Bf4 – 1
👍 11%

👥 9 people voted so far.

⚪️#308 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Motwani,Paul (2455)
🔸Hempson,Peter W
🔸BCF-ch Blackpool, 1988

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 308

A: a4 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%

B: b3 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 36%

C: h3 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

The participants in the 1958 championship of the RSFSR.

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Seated, 1st row: V. Korchnoi (Leningrad), R. Nezhmetdinov (Kazan), arbiters Magergut, Bogatin & Cherkes, S. Furman (Leningrad), E. Stoliar (Leningrad).

2nd row: L. Polugaevsky (Kuibyshev), I. Veltmander (Izhevsk), G. Bastrikov (Sverdlovsk), G. Borisenko (Leningrad), V. Zagorovsky (Voronezh), V. Sergievsky (Cheboksary), B. Vladimirov (Leningrad). V. Zhilin (Rostov-on-Don), I. Efimov (Saratov), L. Shamkovich (Rostov-on-Don).

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