📕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👇🏼
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🔹 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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🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 12
⚪️Kramnik,Vladimir (2800)
⚫️So,Wesley (2799)
🔸½-½

📘 7.g4
After Botvinnik played the line three times against Petrosian, it has been considered by other grandmasters. White elects to gain space on the kingside while also pushing around the bishop on f5, which has to lose time.
7...Be6 8.Qb3 Qb6 9.f3 g5 10.Be5 f6 11.Bg3 Q×b3 12.a×b3.

🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 12
⚪️Kramnik,Vladimir (2800)
⚫️So,Wesley (2799)
🔸½-½

📘 32.Ne6
White's only winning chance is in the opposite color bishops ending.
(32...N×f7 K×f7 33.Ke3 +/- The active bishop on e5 and the white's passed f-pawn make Black's defensive task more difficult. )
32...N×e5 33.d×e5 Re8 34.Nf4 Bc2 35.Rg1+ Kf7 36.e6+ Kf6 37.Nh5+ Ke5 38.f4+ Kd6 =