⚫️#393 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Schlechter,C
🔸Nimzowitsch,A
🔸Carlsbad, 1907

📕24...Qe8!
You can only admire Nimzowitsch's refined use of the back rank, a skill he shares with Karpov. The queen heads for c8 where she will support the freeing move ...f7-f5. This precipitates Schlechter into carrying out his pawn advance before he is completely ready:
25.h4 Qc8! 26.Bd3 Bg4 27.Qg2 gxh4=/+

⚪️#394 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Yusupov,A
🔸USSR Championship, Moscow, 1983

📕30.Kh2!
Karpov turns his attention to the kingside, where he has a space advantage thanks to the strong pawn on e5. He intends 31.g4 as the first stage.
30...Nf5? 31.Rbc2! Rg6 32.Rxc7 Rxc7 33.Rxc7 Qb5 34.g4!+-.

⚪️#395 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Savon,V
🔸Moscow, 1971

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 395

B: b×a3 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%

C: Qc1 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍 43%

A: B×e4
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

⚪️#396 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸H.Qadiri
🔸C.Crouch
🔸Hillingdon League, 2009

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 396

C: Ne4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%

A: Ne5 – 1
👍 11%

B: h5
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

Andor Lilienthal (1911-2010) was a Russian-Hungarian GM (1950). He played against 10 world champs (beating Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, & Smyslov). He died in Budapest 3 days after he turned 99. He was the last surviving member of the 27 original GMs in 1950.

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István Csom (Spartacus) faces Viktor Korchnoi (Volmac) on top board, as Jan Timman looks on, 2nd European Club Cup Netherland 1979.

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Nino Khurtsidze, 2007

Amsterdam, 21st June 1964. In the 23rd & final round of the FIDE Interzonal, tournament leaders Vasily Smyslov & Bent Larsen face one another. The game was drawn, so that Spassky & Tal (who both won) joined them in 1st-4th place.

Some more photos (also from http://www.gahetna.nl ) from this critical game. In the second picture, David Bronstein looks on as Smyslov plays 19.Bxd4 in the position in the diagram.

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