📕 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+/=
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+/=
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 343
C: Na7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
B: h5 – 2
👍👍 25%
A: Ra8
▫️ 0%
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C: Na7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
B: h5 – 2
👍👍 25%
A: Ra8
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 344
B: g5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
A: 0-0 – 2
👍👍 17%
C: Qa5 – 2
👍👍 17%
👥 12 people voted so far.
B: g5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
A: 0-0 – 2
👍👍 17%
C: Qa5 – 2
👍👍 17%
👥 12 people voted so far.
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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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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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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Colour footage from the opening round of the 50th edition of the Hastings tournament, 1974-75: Vlastimil Hort v Guillermo García González, Pal Benko v Jonathan Mestel, Ulf Andersson v Michael Stean, Rafael Vaganian v Alexander Beliavsky and István Csom v Albin Planinc.
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