⚪️#371 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Capablanca,J
🔸Spielmann,R
🔸New York, 1927

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 371

B: Nd2 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%

C: Rb1 – 2
👍👍 25%

A: h3
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#372 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Atkins,H
🔸Capablanca,J
🔸London, 1922

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 372

C: Qd3 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%

B: Bb4 – 3
👍👍👍 25%

A: Nge7 – 2
👍👍 17%

👥 12 people voted so far.

Cambridge & Oxford varsity chess teams have met 135 times since 1873 (organized by Steinitz). Cambridge has won 59, lost 54, and drawn 22.

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The Yugoslav grandmaster Ljubomir Ljubojević, pictured at the Amsterdam OHRA tournament, July 1986.

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Ian Fleming (1908-1964) wrote Moonraker in 1954, his 3rd Bond novel. The novel mentions Paul Morphy & his habit of staring at his opponent.

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Grandmaster Larry Christiansen, at the London (Phillips & Drew) tournament, April 1982.

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Viktor Korchnoi v. Paul Keres, 1st round, 33rd USSR-ch final, Tallinn, 22nd November 1965.

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In the diagram position Black played 24...Rxb2! (0-1, 40).

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🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Naiditsch,Arkadij (2701)
⚫️Bluebaum,Matthias (2631)
🔸½-½

23.R×g7!!
A brave and intuitive sacrifice from Naiditsch to expose the opponent's king.
23...K×g7 24.0-0-0 (f4!) Rf7 25.Rg1+ Kf8 26.Q×h6+ Rg7 27.R×g7 N×g7 28.Qf6+ Kg8 29.B×e5 Nef5 30.B×f5 Q×f6 31.N×f6+ Kf7 32.B×d6 +/-

🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Meier,Georg (2648)
⚫️Naiditsch,Arkadij (2701)
🔸0-1

📘 33. c×b6??
Meier's strange blunder.
33.Nc3! With the idea of Nd5 =
33...Qb7! 0-1

🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2804)
⚫️Hou,Yifan (2657)
🔸½-½

📘 64.a5?
Hou Yifan could have finished the game with a beautiful knight sacrifice.
64...Kd2! 65.B×a6 Nd3! 66.Kb1
(66.c×d3 d4! -+)
66...Ne1 67.B×b5 K×c3+-
65.Kc1 Ne2 66.Kb2 Kd2? 67.B×d5 N×c3=

🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2789)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2804)
🔸0-1

📘 White intends to exchange Black's active queen with 20.Qb5, but Caruana ignores it with a counterattack.
19...g5! 20.Bd2 Qf5!
With the idea of Ne5-f3+!
21.f3 Qc5+ 22.Kh1 Bd5 -+