📕 16...Ne4!
Black pounces on his chance to change the character of the position and get active play. After exchanging the knight on e4, he also gets a kingside pawn majority. 17.Bxe4 dxe4 18.Rad1 f5=/+.
Black pounces on his chance to change the character of the position and get active play. After exchanging the knight on e4, he also gets a kingside pawn majority. 17.Bxe4 dxe4 18.Rad1 f5=/+.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 359
B: Nd8 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
A: f6 – 3
👍👍👍 27%
C: R×a2 – 1
👍 9%
👥 11 people voted so far.
B: Nd8 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
A: f6 – 3
👍👍👍 27%
C: R×a2 – 1
👍 9%
👥 11 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 360
C: Nd3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
B: Qe4 – 2
👍👍 17%
A: Rfd1 – 1
👍 8%
👥 12 people voted so far.
C: Nd3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
B: Qe4 – 2
👍👍 17%
A: Rfd1 – 1
👍 8%
👥 12 people voted so far.
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▪️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
▪️ French Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French chess grandmaster. He was World Junior Champion in 2009 and is a three-time French Champion. He is the No. 1 ranked French player as of October 2017.
🔸 Country: France
🔸 Born: 21 October 1990 (age 28)
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2005)
🔸 FIDE rating: 2789 (March 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2819 (August 2016)
🔸 Ranking: No. 5 (January 2018)
🔸 Peak ranking: No. 2 (August 2016)
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside of Paris. A genuine prodigy, he became the then second-youngest grandmaster in the world in 2005, at the age of 14 years 4 months (Magnus Carlsen was the youngest at that time).
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave came =2nd (6th on count back) with 8/11 and a 2750 TPR at the 9th European Individual Championships (2007), half point behind Tiviakov. He came =5th at the European Individual Championship (2008) with 7/9, a point behind winner Jan Werle, and half a point behind 2-4th Viktor Laznicka, Nigel Short and Michael Adams.
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave played first reserve for France at the 37th Chess Olympiad (2006) in Turin, scoring 6/10 (+3 =6 -1). At the 38th Olympiad (2008) in Dresden, he played 2nd board scoring 6.5/11. Playing top board at the 39th Chess Olympiad (2010) in Khantiy-Mansiysk, he scored 5/11. He played top board for France in the Chess Olympiad (2012), scoring 6.5/10 and in the Chess Olympiad (2014), this time scoring 6/10.
♦️ He won the Category 22 Sinquefield Cup (2017) super-tournament ahead of the world champion and eight other elite grandmasters.
💢 A memorable game by Vachier👇🏼
🔸 David Navara vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
🔸 Bundesliga (2017/18), Schwegenheim GER, rd 11, Mar-10
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Russian. Byrne (Simagin) Variation (D97)
💢 Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ French Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French chess grandmaster. He was World Junior Champion in 2009 and is a three-time French Champion. He is the No. 1 ranked French player as of October 2017.
🔸 Country: France
🔸 Born: 21 October 1990 (age 28)
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2005)
🔸 FIDE rating: 2789 (March 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2819 (August 2016)
🔸 Ranking: No. 5 (January 2018)
🔸 Peak ranking: No. 2 (August 2016)
♦️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside of Paris. A genuine prodigy, he became the then second-youngest grandmaster in the world in 2005, at the age of 14 years 4 months (Magnus Carlsen was the youngest at that time).
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave came =2nd (6th on count back) with 8/11 and a 2750 TPR at the 9th European Individual Championships (2007), half point behind Tiviakov. He came =5th at the European Individual Championship (2008) with 7/9, a point behind winner Jan Werle, and half a point behind 2-4th Viktor Laznicka, Nigel Short and Michael Adams.
♦️ Vachier-Lagrave played first reserve for France at the 37th Chess Olympiad (2006) in Turin, scoring 6/10 (+3 =6 -1). At the 38th Olympiad (2008) in Dresden, he played 2nd board scoring 6.5/11. Playing top board at the 39th Chess Olympiad (2010) in Khantiy-Mansiysk, he scored 5/11. He played top board for France in the Chess Olympiad (2012), scoring 6.5/10 and in the Chess Olympiad (2014), this time scoring 6/10.
♦️ He won the Category 22 Sinquefield Cup (2017) super-tournament ahead of the world champion and eight other elite grandmasters.
💢 A memorable game by Vachier👇🏼
🔸 David Navara vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
🔸 Bundesliga (2017/18), Schwegenheim GER, rd 11, Mar-10
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Russian. Byrne (Simagin) Variation (D97)
💢 Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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