Unity Chess Multiple Choice 372
C: Qd3 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
B: Bb4 – 3
👍👍👍 25%
A: Nge7 – 2
👍👍 17%
👥 12 people voted so far.
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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Viktor Korchnoi v. Paul Keres, 1st round, 33rd USSR-ch final, Tallinn, 22nd November 1965.
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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 +/-
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 +/-
📘 33. c×b6??
Meier's strange blunder.
33.Nc3! With the idea of Nd5 =
33...Qb7! 0-1
Meier's strange blunder.
33.Nc3! With the idea of Nd5 =
33...Qb7! 0-1
📘 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=
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=
📘 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 -+
19...g5! 20.Bd2 Qf5!
With the idea of Ne5-f3+!
21.f3 Qc5+ 22.Kh1 Bd5 -+
📕 14.Nd2!
Spielmann, himself a master of attack, is aware that if he does nothing, 15 e4! will give the white pieces an irrepressible energy. Therefore he has to block the advance at all costs. The only way is by sticking his knight on e4, but unfortunately 14...Ne4 just loses a pawn to 15.Bxe4 dxe4 16.Qc4. So first of all, he needs to defend the c4-pawn a second time.
14...b5 15.Qa5 Ne4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.a4!+/-
Spielmann, himself a master of attack, is aware that if he does nothing, 15 e4! will give the white pieces an irrepressible energy. Therefore he has to block the advance at all costs. The only way is by sticking his knight on e4, but unfortunately 14...Ne4 just loses a pawn to 15.Bxe4 dxe4 16.Qc4. So first of all, he needs to defend the c4-pawn a second time.
14...b5 15.Qa5 Ne4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.a4!+/-