⚫️#400 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Videki,S
🔸Hillarp Persson,T
🔸Budapest, 1996

📕 16...b3!
This is the key idea. Black jumps at the opportunity to establish a strong knight on e4 and open b-file simultaneously – and free of charge! If you did not find this move, you did not fully solve the exercise.
17.Qxb3 Nxe4 18.Qc2 Ndf6=.

⚫️#401 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Miles,A
🔸Korchnoi,V
🔸Lugano, 1989

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 401

A: Rc5 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%

B: Q×d3 – 1
👍👍 25%

C: N×e4
▫️ 0%

👥 4 people voted so far.

⚪️#402 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Korchnoi,V
🔸Yusupov,A
🔸Horgen, 1995

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 402

B: a3 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%

A: Nd1 – 2
👍👍👍👍👍 40%

C: Qb3
▫️ 0%

👥 5 people voted so far.

Carlsen, Ding To Play For Shamkir Chess Title.

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Just two players can still win the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir: Ding Liren and Magnus Carlsen . Both won in the penultimate round, and will face each other in Saturday's final round with Carlsen behind the white pieces.

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The final game of the London Docklands Speed Chess Challenge 1987, Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov.

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Petrosian & Spassky, before play in the 1st round at Santa Monica, 1966.

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Garry Kasparov, student at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Foreign Languages, Baku, early 1980s.

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Old-school etiquette. Efim Bogoljubow forces Ludwig Rellstab's resignation in the last round of the German Championship, Bad Pyrmont, May 1949.

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Shankland, Wang Sole Leaders At U.S. Championships.

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🔹 U.S. championship 2018- Round 9
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