⚪️#342 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2751)
🔸Kasparov,Garry (2812)
🔸Frankfurt 1999

📕 26.Bxc6!
This plan makes sense. Even now the battle for the central dark squares is pivotal. White is looking for access to the d4 square as a staging post en route to the greater spoils of c5. 26...bxc6 27.Nd4 Be4! 28.Nb3 Bd5 29.Nc5+/=

⚫️#343 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gligoric,Svetozar
🔸Szabo,Laszlo
🔸Helsinki , 1952

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 343

C: Na7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%

B: h5 – 2
👍👍 25%

A: Ra8
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#344 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gligoric,Svetozar
🔸Szabo,Laszlo
🔸Helsinki , 1952

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 344

B: g5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%

A: 0-0 – 2
👍👍 17%

C: Qa5 – 2
👍👍 17%

👥 12 people voted so far.

Candidates' Tournament R9: Karjakin Prolongs Kramnik's Misery.

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2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament | Round 9 Standings

After round 9, Karjakin beat Kramnik; all other games drawn. Caruana still leads with 6 out of 9 (3 wins and 6 draws). Mamedyarov is in 2nd with 5.5 out of 9. Ding Liren has drawn all 9 games. Rd 10 on March 22. It will be Mamedyarov-Caruana.

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🔹 Fide Berlin Candidates games - Round 9
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Lasker, Chigorin, Steinitz, and Pillsbury examining the Two Knights Defense.
Chigorin is also watching from the picture frame. St. Petersburg, 1895-6.

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At the 10th USSR Championship (Tbilisi, 1937) - the 2nd-round encounter between Genrikh Kasparian (Yerevan) and Andor Lilienthal (Moscow). The game was drawn in 30 move.

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Vilnius, July 1978. The 7th-round meeting of ex-World Champion Tigran Petrosian and soon-to-be Women's World Champion, Maia Chiburdanidze.

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Utut Adianto (1965- ) is the 1st Indonesian GM (1986). At age 12, he was Jakarta Jr. champ. He won the Indonesian ch at age 17. In 2000, he won the gold medal on board 1 in the Istanbul Olympiad. In 2009, he won a seat in the Indonesian senate and is now the House Speaker.

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