📘 White has already sacrificed two pieces and now, the critical moment has arrived...
24...Kd7?
(24...Qd7! 25.Rg6 Rf8 -+)
25.Rg6 Rf8? 26.Rg7+ ! 1-0
if 26...B×g7 then, 27.Qe6#, or 26...Be7 27.Qe6+ Ke8 28.R×e7+ Q×e7 29.Rc8#
24...Kd7?
(24...Qd7! 25.Rg6 Rf8 -+)
25.Rg6 Rf8? 26.Rg7+ ! 1-0
if 26...B×g7 then, 27.Qe6#, or 26...Be7 27.Qe6+ Ke8 28.R×e7+ Q×e7 29.Rc8#
📘 26...Re8??
FM Nima Hosseinzadeh has commited a strange blunder.
27.Re1 1-0
FM Nima Hosseinzadeh has commited a strange blunder.
27.Re1 1-0
📘 24.a6!
A nice temporary pawn sac to ensure that White will be able to use the weakened c5 square for his pieces, rather than having to advance a pawn there. 24...Bxa6 25.Ba5 Rd7 26.cxb5 Nb3+/-
A nice temporary pawn sac to ensure that White will be able to use the weakened c5 square for his pieces, rather than having to advance a pawn there. 24...Bxa6 25.Ba5 Rd7 26.cxb5 Nb3+/-
📘 17...Rc4!
A great decision. Karpov with a pawn sacrifice tries to exploit the weakness of light squares in the black camp. 18.Qxa7 Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8 and White is completely tied up.
A great decision. Karpov with a pawn sacrifice tries to exploit the weakness of light squares in the black camp. 18.Qxa7 Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8 and White is completely tied up.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 317
B: Ne2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
C: Na2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
A: Qg3 – 2
👍👍👍👍 20%
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B: Ne2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
C: Na2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
A: Qg3 – 2
👍👍👍👍 20%
👥 10 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 318
B: e5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
A: N×d3 – 2
👍👍 20%
C: Rfc8 – 2
👍👍 20%
👥 10 people voted so far.
B: e5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
A: N×d3 – 2
👍👍 20%
C: Rfc8 – 2
👍👍 20%
👥 10 people voted so far.
Petrosian, Korchnoi & Vasiukov analysing the opening game of Tal-Botvinnik World Championship match, Moscow 1961.
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Reykjavík 1968; Mark Taimanov & Evgeny Vasiukov (who is 85 years old today) look on at the latter's game v. Friðrik Ólafsson. Vasiukov won this game; the Soviet grandmasters shared 1st-2nd places in this event, ahead of Ólafsson.
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A feel of the play and atmosphere in Moscow during the eighteenth game of the world title rematch between Tal and Botvinnik, May 5, 1961.
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Miguel Najdorf v. Robert Hübner, 7th round, Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1971 - a key game in the development of what would become known as the Hübner Variation in the Nimzo-Indian Defence.
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