📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 318

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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Rare April 1948 footage of Paul Keres, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Samuel Reshevsky and Vasily Smyslov during the Moscow part of the 1948 World Chess Championship.

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Smyslov v Reshevsky, World Championship, Moscow, Round 11, April 11, 1948.

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❇️ Three days left to starting Candidates Tournament 2018 !!

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✅ Candidates Tournament 2018
💢 Location: Berlin, Germany
💢 Dates: Mar 10, 2018 – Mar 28, 2018

▪️ The 2018 Candidates Tournament is an 8-player event to decide the challenger who will play a World Championship match against Magnus Carlsen in November 2018 in London.
The 14-round double round-robin runs from 10-27 March in the Kühlhaus Berlin and features a prize fund in excess of €420,000.
Players have 100 minutes for 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1.
The tournament is organised by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon.

▪️ Rounds Schedule👇🏼👇🏼
Round 1 Mar 10, 2018 14:00
Round 2 Mar 11, 2018 14:00
Round 3 Mar 12, 2018 14:00
Round 4 Mar 14, 2018 14:00
Round 5 Mar 15, 2018 14:00
Round 6 Mar 16, 2018 14:00
Round 7 Mar 18, 2018 14:00
Round 8 Mar 19, 2018 14:00
Round 9 Mar 20, 2018 14:00
Round 10 Mar 22, 2018 14:00
Round 11 Mar 23, 2018 14:00
Round 12 Mar 24, 2018 14:00
Round 13 Mar 26, 2018 14:00
Round 14 Mar 27, 2018 14:00

🔸 Chief Arbiter Deventer, Klaus (GER) IA
🔸 Deputy Chief Arbiter Bond, Hal (CAN) IA,IO

▪️Players:
1. Sergey Karjakin (RUS, world championship 2016 finalist)
2. Levon Aronian (ARM, world cup 2017 winner)
3. Ding Liren (CHN, world cup 2017 finalist)
4. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE, grand-prix 2017 winner)
5. Alexander Grischuk (RUS, grand-prix 2017 runner-up)
6. Fabiano Caruana (USA, rating lists 2017)
7. Wesley So (USA, rating lists 2017)
8. Vladimir Kramnik (RUS, organiser's nominee)

▪️First reserve from the FIDE Grand-Prix standings is Teimour Radjabov (AZE)

▪️ The winner of the Candidates Tournament will challenge Magnus Carlsen for the FIDE World Championship title in the last quarter of 2018.

▪️ Official site: https://worldchess.com/

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🔸 Robert Hübner
🔸 German Grandmaster and Writer

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🔸 Robert Hübner
🔸 German Grandmaster and Writer

♦️ Robert Hübner is a German chess Grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.

▪️ Full name: Robert Hübner
▪️ Country: Germany
▪️ Born: November 6, 1948 , Cologne, West Germany[1]
▪️ Title: International Master (1969) Grandmaster (1971)
▪️ FIDE rating: inactive (not rated)
▪️ Peak rating: 2640 (July 1981)

♦️Dr. Robert Huebner was born in Cologne in 1948. At age sixteen, he tied for first in the European Championship, and in 1971 he earned the International Grandmaster title by qualifying into the World Championship Candidates. He also qualified in 1980 (when he reached the finals before losing to Viktor Korchnoi) and in 1983 (when he lost his quarterfinal match to Vasily Smyslov on the spin of a roulette wheel). Huebner still lives in Germany and, as of January 2005, was still rated in FIDE's world top 100 players.

♦️ A memorable game by Robert Huebner against Makhail Tal👇🏼👇🏼
💢 Mikhail Tal vs Robert Huebner
💢 Leningrad Interzonal (1973), Leningrad URS, rd 4, Jun-07
💢 Sicilian Defense: Kan. Knight Variation (B43)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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🔹 Mikhail Tal - Robert Huebner, Leningrad Interzonal (1973)
🔹 PGN format

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🔸International Khazar Cup 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Afshari,Mohammadreza (2183)
⚫️Rastbod,Ali (2305)
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📘 19.Nc3?
White should have chosen 19.Bc2 to protect his king and coordinate his pieces.
19...Bf5!
A surprising winning move!
20.Q×d5
(20.g4 N×c3 21.Q×c3 Rdc8 -+)
20...R×d5 21.R×d5 Qe3+ 22.Rd2 Rc8 23.Bc2 R×c3! 24.b×c3 Q×c3 0-1