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📕The Black's dark-squared bishop is tied down to defending the d6 pawn.
11...g5!
Now Black is able to develop the bishop to an active post.
12.Bc1 Bg7 13.h3 Ne5=.
⚪️#410 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Yakovich,Y
🔸Solozhenkin,E
🔸St Petersburg, 1995
📕15.Qd2!
Now White has a clear advantage as the knight has nowhere sensible to go from f4 (d4 is suddenly far away).
15...Nb4 (15...b6 16.Nd5!) 16.Bxc5 Rfd8 17.Qe3+/-.
⚫️#411 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Khalifman,A
🔸Anand,V
🔸FIDE World Ch., Groningen, 1997
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 411

C: Rfe8 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%

A: Q×d4 – 2
👍👍👍 22%

B: d×e4 – 2
👍👍👍 22%

👥 9 people voted so far.
⚪️#412 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Short,N
🔸Smyslov,V
🔸Subotica Interzonal, 1987
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 412
anonymous poll

B: Nb1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 53%

C: Ba7 – 5
👍👍👍👍 33%

A: Rhe1 – 2
👍👍 13%

👥 15 people voted so far.
USSR Chess Team 1954
(Smyslov, Bronstein, Keres, Botvinnik)

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The winners of the 1976 Amsterdam IBM tournament, Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) & Tony Miles (England) face each other in the penultimate (14th) round, played on July 22nd. At the conclusion of this event, Korchnoi defected to the West.

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Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work.

🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik

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Ivanchuk and Giri...

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As you browse through archives, you often realize that Mikhail Tal's box had two essential tools: unpredictable moves and disarming smiles.

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A tense first game of the Tan Zhongyi-Ju Wenjun Women's World Championship match ends in a draw!

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The FIDE Women's World Chess Championship match between defending champion Tan Zhongyi and challenger Ju Wenjun takes place 3rd to 20th May. 10 game match Both were born in 1991 and are close friends. The challenger has white in game 1. First half of the match is in the "Intercontinental Hotel Puxi, near the historic centre of Shanghai", May 3rd-10th. Then the match moves to Chongqing finishing on May 20th. Info based on tweets by Ian Rogers.