⚫️#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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FINAL STANDINGS

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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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“Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.”

– Bobby Fischer, 1958

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Bad Pistyan 1912.
Rubinstein on the far right won the tournament ahead of Spielmann, who is sitting at the next table looking at the photographer.

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World champion Anatoly Karpov and Vitaly Sevastyanov, the Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions and president of the Soviet Union Chess Federation, during a November 1978 FIDE Congress.

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