⚪️#350 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Aronian,Levon (2781)
🔸Jobava,Baadur (2668)
🔸Reykjavik 2015

📕 23.a5!
Given time to consolidate his position with Bb4, Black could hope to survive. Therefore Levon must act energetically. 23...bxa5 the only move. (If 23...Bb4, then 24.a6+ +/-.) 24.Bc5!.

⚪️#351 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Vachier Lagrave,Maxime (2791)
🔸Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2742)
🔸Saint Louis 2017

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 351

A: f3 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

B: Q×f5. – 3
👍👍👍👍 38%

C: Qe2
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#352 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2810)
🔸Aronian,Levon (2809)
🔸FIDE Candidates London 2013

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 352

A: e4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

C: Ne2 – 2
👍👍👍 29%

B: a3
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

Dusheti, Georgian SSR, 1968. USSR Women's champion Nana Alexandria, flanked by visiting grandmasters Salo Flohr and Max Euwe.

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Moscow, Feb 1975. The Women's Candidates' Final between Nana Alexandria & Irina Levitina.

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Alexandria went through, but lost the World Championship match (in Pitsunda/Tbilisi) v. her Georgian compatriot, Nona Gaprindashvili, by 8½-3½.

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The 1972 Fischer chess boom was also a boom for correspondence chess. In 1972, the USCF Golden Knights championship had 770 sections with 5,390 players! It was finally won by the Canadian player Richard A. Cayford (1939-2005), who also tied for 1st in the 1973 Golden Knights.

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Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal in play v Luděk Pachman in the 6th round of the FIDE Interzonal tournament at Amsterdam, May-June 1964. Tal won in only 19 moves.

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3rd Capablanca Memorial, August/September 1964. Chess masters were rock stars in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

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🔹 John L. Watson
🔹 Chess International Master and Chess Author

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🔹 John L. Watson
🔹 Chess International Master and Chess Author

♦️ John Leonard Watson is a chess International Master and author. Watson was grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.

▪️ Born: September 5, 1951 (age 67), Milwaukee, WI
▪️ Education: Harvard University

♦️John Leonard Watson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. In 1969, he won the Nebraska State High School championship with a 5-0 score. A month later, he won the first National High School Championship, held in New York. FIDE awarded him the IM title in 1982.

♦️ Watson is also a noted author of chess books. He wrote a tetralogy on the English Opening:
⭕️ <Symmetrical English: 1...P-QB4>
⭕️ <English: 1...P-K4>
⭕️ <English: 1...N-KB3 Systems>
⭕️ <English: Franco, Slav and Flank Defences>

♦️ In 1999, Gambit published his book <Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch>. his four-volume series <Mastering the Chess Openings> was published. In 2012, his book <A Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White: A Comprehensive Plan of Attack with 1.d4 and 2.c4> was published. Watson also wrote the "Chessman" series of comics.

♦️ A memorable game by John Watson in 2017👇🏼
🔹 John L Watson vs Zaki Harari
🔹 Isle of Man Open (2017), Douglas IMN, rd 6, Sep-28
🔹 Benoni Defense: Hromadka System (A57)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼

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🔹 John L Watson - Zaki Harari, Isle of Man Open (2017)
🔹 PGN format

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▪️ Unity Chess Stamp Album
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