🔸Shamkir Chess 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Ding Liren (2778)
⚫️Mamedov,Rau (2704)
🔸1-0

📘 37... Kh6??
Mamedov made a blunder. He could have obtained a draw by playing 37...Kf6! =
38. Kg3 Rf6
A)38... Rbxf2 39. Rh8+ Kg5 40.h4+ Rxh4 41. Ra5+ Kf6 42. Rf8+
B)38... Rfxf2 39. Rh8+ Kg5 40. h4+ Kf6 41. Rf8+
C)38... Rf3+ 39. Kg4 Rbxf2 40. Rh8#
39. h4 g5 40. Rh8+ Kg6 41. Rg8+ Kf5 42.Rxg5+ Ke6 43. Re5+ Kd6 44. Ra6+ 1-0

⚪️#403 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kamsky,G
🔸Kramnik,V
🔸World Team Ch., Lucerne, 1993

📕 White has a number of factors in his favor here but his pieces do not co-ordinate too well. Fortunately, this is easily taken care of. The most obvious is the knight, which needs to find a better square. On e6 the knight will completely dominate Black (g7, f8, and d8) and keep the e-file closed, until that very special moment when the knight moves and Black suffers a serious invasion. Therefore we should first improve the advanced rook as it occupies the transit square.
24.Rc6!
Here the rook is now perfectly placed and will be relatively undisturbed because it is on a light square (where White is in control). Already a6 is under pressure, while g6 is also a potential target, and in the meantime, the e6-square is under control.
24...fxe6 25.Nc5 Qf7 26.Nxe6+/-

⚪️#404 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gelfand,B
🔸Adams,M
🔸Wijk aan Zee (match) (8), 1994

📕 This is a really interesting position and difficult to evaluate. Luckily we do not need to do so to find the best move! But anyway, let us resort to one of the old methods of evaluation. Where should the pieces be placed? White, for sure, wants the queen's rook on d1, while the queen could go to d7 or d2 and the bishop – who knows? White needs to somehow break a hole in Black's centre, or forever live with a bad bishop. But in the position White is under attack.
17.Rfb1!
The only move that helps White in his quest to obtain his favorite piece placement. Now the idea is Qg5-d1-d2 followed by f2-f3 and Rb1-d1 (maybe), with Bg3-f2 and b2-b4 in some positions. Less good is 17.Rab1 Qc4!.

⚪️#405 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gelfand,B
🔸Kasparov,G
🔸Linares, 1994

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 405

C: Bg5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

A: Nge2 – 4
👍👍👍👍 36%

B: Nb5
▫️ 0%

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚫️#406 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Kacheishvili,G
🔸Svidler,P
🔸World Junior Ch., Szeged, 1994

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 406

B: e6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

A: c5 – 3
👍👍👍 27%

C: Ned7 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

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