📘 18...Bc8 19.Nb3!
A good prophylactic move to prevent Black from playing Re7 and e5.
19...Qf4
19...Re7 20.B×a6! +/-
20.Qc1!
With the aim of trading opponent's most active piece and preventing ...e5 lever.
20...Q×c1 21.Re×c1 +/-

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

📕Here the primary concept is control over the dark squares in the center. The light-squared bishops each cover their diagonal (b1-h7 and a2-g8) and do not contest each other. But the fight for d4, e5 and f4 is hard. The appropriate course for White, then, is to bring his pieces into this fight as quickly as possible. The logical way to do this is to start with the knights.
13.Nge2! Rc8 14.Bb1 Bxf4 15.Nxf4 Bg4 16.f3 Be6 17.Qd2 Qe7 18.Nb5 a6 19.Nd4+/=.

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

📕White is threatening to play 11 f4!, 12 Bxg7 and 13 Nf3 with complete control of the center. The knight has nowhere to go from e5 so Black has to act at once, using the only exposed piece White has – namely the bishop on d4. Note that White has good control over most of the light squares with the pawns on d5 and e4 working together with the bishop on e2.
10...c5!
This pawn sacrifice makes it possible for Black to use his slight lead in development to solve his problems.
11.Bxc5 Nec4 12.Bxc4 Nxc4 13.Qb3 Nxb2! 14.Qxb2 Qc7
Here the bishop is struggling on c5.

⚫️#407 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Korchnoi,V
🔸Nunn,J
🔸Reykjavik, 1988

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 407

B: Nb6 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

A: a×b5 – 2
👍👍👍 29%

C: Nh5
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

⚫️#408 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gruenfeld,Y
🔸Svidler,P
🔸Haifa, 1995

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 408

A: d5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

B: B×c3 – 2
👍👍 18%

C: e5 – 2
👍👍 18%

👥 11 people voted so far.

Paikidze Wins U.S. Women's Championship In Armageddon.

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Las Vegas resident IM Nazi Paikidze-Barnes just won the 2018 US women's championship. She won the Armageddon (sudden death) game against WIM Annie Wang in the 3rd game. Wang won the 1st playoff game, but Paikidze won the next 2 games. Paikidze also won the championship in 2016

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🔹 U.S. Womens Championship 2018- Games Women TB
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Fischer (US Chess Champion back then) and Reshevsky playing chess with actor Jose Ferrer on the eve of their match in 1961.

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Amsterdam, 8th May 1968. The opening Candidates Quarter-final match between Sammy Reshevsky (USA) & Viktor Korchnoi (USSR). Korchnoi won the match, winning 3 & drawing 5 of the 8 games.

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