⚫️#427 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Reykjavik, 1991

Here I see the following: White has no control over the light squares on the queenside. White's king is uncomfortable and he, therefore, wants the center to remain closed. White is preparing a pawn storm on the kingside but his minor pieces don't properly support this adventure, so it will take a long time to take off. Black, on the other hand, wants virtually the opposite of all this. Opening the game on both the queenside and in the center is particularly important, activating his bishops without opening lines for the white bishops (therefore I discount ...d6-d5). All this leads directly to Karpov's choice in the game.
18...b5! 19.axb5 axb5 20.cxb5 Bb6! This is the final finesse that your analysis requires. 21.Rhd1 Bxb5+/-.

⚪️#428 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Salov,V
🔸Reykjavik, 1991

20.Bd1!
Putting the bishop to use. Notice how all the pieces are playing, and how the bishop is in reach of both ways out of the pawn chain (a4 and h5).
20...Bd7 21.a3 White has the advantage. 21...Ra7 22.b4 Nb7 23.Rf2 Nd8 24.Qe3 axb4 25.axb4+/=.

⚪️#429 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Lautier,J
🔸Biel, 1992

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 429

A: Kg3 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%

C: g4 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍 43%

B: Be2
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

⚫️#430 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Morovic Fernandez,I
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Dos Hermanas, 1994

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 430

B: f5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%

C: Nc8 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 36%

A: a5 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

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📎 Emanuel Lasker
📎 Mathematician and chess Master

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*️⃣ #about_Lasker

📎 Emanuel Lasker
📎 Mathematician and chess Master


♦️ Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.

🔸 Full name: Emanuel Lasker
🔸 Country: Germany
🔸 Born: December 24, 1868
Berlinchen, Prussia (now Barlinek, Poland)
🔸 Died: January 11, 1941 (aged 72)
New York City, United States
🔸 World Champion: 1894–1921

♦️ Lasker's match record was as impressive between his 1896–97 re-match with Steinitz and 1914: he won all but one of his normal matches, and three of those were convincing defenses of his title. He first faced Marshall in the World Chess Championship 1907, when despite his aggressive style, Marshall could not win a single game, losing eight and drawing seven (final score: 11½−3½).
He then played Tarrasch in the World Chess Championship 1908, first at Düsseldorf then at Munich. Tarrasch firmly believed the game of chess was governed by a precise set of principles. For him the strength of a chess move was in its logic, not in its efficiency. Because of his stubborn principles he considered Lasker as a coffeehouse player who won his games only thanks to dubious tricks, while Lasker mocked the arrogance of Tarrasch who, in his opinion, shone more in salons than at the chessboard. At the opening ceremony, Tarrasch refused to talk to Lasker, only saying: "Mr. Lasker, I have only three words to say to you: check and mate!"
Lasker gave a brilliant answer on the chessboard, winning four of the first five games, and playing a type of chess Tarrasch could not understand. For example, in the second game after 19 moves arose a situation in which Lasker was a pawn down, with a bad bishop and doubled pawns. At this point it appeared Tarrasch was winning, but 20 moves later he was forced to resign. Lasker eventually won by 10½−5½ (eight wins, five draws, and three losses). Tarrasch claimed the wet weather was the cause of his defeat.

♦️ A memorable game by Lasker. second game of world chess championship 1908 against Tarrasch!!👇
▪️ Siegbert Tarrasch vs Emanuel Lasker
▪️ Lasker - Tarrasch World Championship Match (1908), Duesseldorf GER, rd 2, Aug-19
▪️ Spanish Game: Berlin Defense. Hedgehog Variation (C66)

♦️Review and download PGN file👇

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🔅 Siegbert Tarrasch - Emanuel Lasker, World Championship Match (1908)
🔅 PGN format

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🔴🔴 Tan Zhongyi wins in 125 moves to reduce Ju Wenjun's Women's World Championship advantage to 1 point with 4 games to go!

🔹 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2018- Round 6
🔹 PGN format

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Evgeny Vasiukov v. Bukhuti Gurgenidze. the game was evidently played in a Soviet team event, given the team names - 'Moscow' and 'Georgia'.

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Moscow, 23rd October 1973. The 15th round of the 41st USSR Championship -Korchnoi faces Spassky, while Karpov looks on. On the adjacent board, Taimanov faces Geller.

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