🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 Game 1
⚪️Maxim Rodshtein (2695)
⚫️Vladimir Fedoseev (2731)
🔺0-1

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Vassily Ivanchuk
⚫️Anish Giri
🔺1-0

🔺Qh5
Dutch grandmaster Sergei Tiviakov favorite move. The idea behind this move is to not letting Black's Queen get to h4. The main line is c4.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Vassily Ivanchuk
⚫️Anish Giri
🔺1-0

🔺1.Nc3!
Forcing black to exchange his active Knight and to open the b file for white. 1.Qxd5 was also playable but after 1...Bc6 black had compensation🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Vassily Ivanchuk
⚫️Anish Giri
🔺1-0

🔺1...a4 =An inactive move.
1...Qf4!+ 2.Qg3 Qd2-/+
The black queen is in active position and white's pawns are indefensible.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Vassily Ivanchuk
⚫️Anish Giri
🔺1-0

🔺1...Qf4+? (Qe8=) 2.Qg3
because of the c7 pawn , black is forced to exchange the queens and after that due to the two connected passed pawns in the kingside,white is winning.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Daniil Dubov
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½

🔺1...a5 (Nbd7 Main Line)
The idea of this move is to transfer the knight to the strong b4 square.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Daniil Dubov
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½

🔺1...Qf6= (R.b2 -+ 2.Ne4 Qf7 -+)
2.Rd2 R.b2 3.Ne8! =🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Lagrave Vachier
⚫️Alexander Grischuk
🔺½-½

🔺1.Re3
Transfering the rook to g3 to attack the black king is a strong idea.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 4 game 1
⚪️Lagrave Vachier
⚫️Alexander Grischuk
🔺½-½

🔺An interesting combination by Vachier!
R.g7= K.g7 2.Nc6 Nd4 3.N.d4 B.c4=🔺

⚪️ #17 (Strategy - White To Move)

🔹#17
1.b4! The white fixes the enemy queenside pawns on the squares that are of the same color as the bishop and strengthens his
control over the c5-square.🔹