⚪️#412 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Short,N
🔸Smyslov,V
🔸Subotica Interzonal, 1987

📕 15.Ba7!
Another logical situation, although this time prophylaxis plays a part. It does not take long to see that Black will attack down the b-file, forcing White to nudge the b-pawn forward one square and thus weaken the dark squares in front of the king. Here it is natural to believe that Be3-c1 will at one time be necessary because Black's dark-squared bishop cannot be allowed a free hand on the queenside. Furthermore, White needs to think about the organization of his forces. The pawn advance f2-f4 is a logical plan, but a move like 15 Nh2?! is so ugly that we should avoid it on purely intuitive grounds. The Knights will not have any good squares before f2-f4 and an opening of the position, but what about the rooks? The d-file, of course, which means that the queen is in the way. All this leads to the exploitation of c5.
15...Ra8 (15...Rb7 16.Qe3 Bd6 17.Nd2!? Qa8 18.Bc5+/-) 16.Qe3 Qb7 17.Bc5 Rb8 18.b3 Bxc5 19.Qxc5 Qb6 20.Qxb6 cxb6 21.Rd6+/=. The endgame is much better for White.

⚪️#413 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Short,N
🔸Kamsky,G
🔸Tilburg, 1990

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 413

A: Qc1 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 43%

C: c4 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 43%

B: B×g5 – 1
👍👍 14%

👥 7 people voted so far.

⚪️#414 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Short,N
🔸Gelfand,B
🔸Brussels 1991

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 414

B: Qg3 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%

C: Kh1 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍 43%

A: a3
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

Efim Geller, Anatoly Karpov, and Semyon Furman, analyzing the Tarrasch Variation of the French Defence.

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Mikhail Botvinnik vs David Bronstein, the last game of the 1951 World Championship Match. It ended in a draw.

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It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

🔹 Samuel Reshevsky

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Capablanca contemplating his 15th move against Vidmar in London 1922.
(Source: The Tatler, 23 August 1922)

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🔴 Ju Wenjun wins Game 2 to take a 1.5:0.5 lead in the Women's World Championship match!

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🔹 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2018- Round 2
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🔸 Ju Wenjun
🔸 Chinese chess Grandmaster

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🔸 FIDE Women's World Championship 2018
🔸 Ju Wenjun won Game 2

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🔸 FIDE Women's World Championship 2018
🔸Today in Game 2


✴️ Before the match, the two players had only played 16 classical games against each other. Tan had won three vs. two for Ju, and 10 draws. Today Ju equalized the score, and grabbed the lead with a win with the black pieces.
Playing 1...e5 for the first time against the English, it was her time to surprise and it worked well. She equalized comfortably and then got a strong initiative in an endgame with heavy pieces.
Tan again defended well, initially, but in time trouble she stumbled in a double-rook endgame and then came one tempo short.

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