Ju Wenjun missed a big chance to all but decide the Women's World Championship match today, but after a draw in Game 8 she still leads by a point with two games to go!

🔹 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2018- Round 8
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🔹 53rd Capablanca Memorial 2018- Round 6
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🔸Capablanca Memorial 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Bacallao Alonso,Yusnel (2594)
⚫️Dreev,Aleksey (2653)
🔸½-½

12...Rae8!
A typical plan in this defensive formation.
13.Nf3 Nd7 14.Be3 f6 15.c4! e6 16.Rc1 d×c4 17.B×c4 Nb6

🔸Capablanca Memorial 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Bacallao Alonso,Yusnel (2594)
⚫️Dreev,Aleksey (2653)
🔸½-½

31...Bg7? 32.Kg2?
White could have immediately punished his opponent's last move.
32.b5 c×b5 33.R×c7 N×c7 34.Qb7 Re7 35.Bb4 Nd5 36.Qc8+ Q×c8 37.R×c8+ Bf8 38.B×e7 +-
32...Rec8 33.R4c2 Re8 34.Qe2 Bf8

🔸Capablanca Memorial 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Bruzon Batista,Lazaro (2664)
⚫️Shankland,Samuel (2671)
🔸0-1

Samuel Shankland, the current US champion shows great endgame technique.
47...f4+! 48.Kf2 Rh8! 49.Ra7 Ra8 50.Rc7 Kf6 51.Bd3 g5 52.Be2 Rb8! 53.Bd3 Rb6 0-1

🔸Capablanca Memorial 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Anton Guijarro,David (2646)
⚫️Bacallao Alonso,Yusnel (2594)
🔸½-½

43.R×c6?
David should have tried his last winning chances with 43.Rdxh6!
43.Rd×h6! Rd6 44.R×d6 R×d6 45.Rg5+ Kf6 46.R×g4 c3 47.b4 K×f5 48.Rc4 +/-
43...Rd4 44.Rc×h6 Rf4 45.Rh7+ Kf6 46.R5h6+ Kg5 47.Rh5+ Kf6 =

⚪️#435 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Topalov,V
🔸Linares, 1994

White has numerous ways to secure an advantage. 11 Qd2, to recapture with the queen on f4, looks attractive, and so does 11 Be3, but none of them can compare to the way Karpov decides to alter the pawn structure!
11.e3!
Maintaining perfect control over the center. As far as ideal squares are concerned, here it is the disappearance of them. Now Black is unable to find any good squares for his pieces.
11...Nxf4 12.exf4
Now Black has no easy way to develop. In fact examination of the position indicates that there is no difficult way either!
12...Bd7 13.Qd2 Qb8 14.Rfe1! g6 15.h4+/-

⚪️#436 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Gelfand,B
🔸Sanghi Nagar (match) (4), 1995

This is a really difficult exercise, so don't be disappointed if you failed to get to grips with it. Black has a good set-up but it is of a rather defensive nature. White has potential weaknesses in b2 and d4, but it is difficult to imagine any way that these should come under serious fire. Black has a weakness on b6 (and perhaps e6) but this is also hardly enough to worry about. So White should try to create further weaknesses in Black's camp if he is to generate an advantage. This is best done with the pawn advance h2-h4-h5 (g3-g4-g5 weakens the dark squares around the white king just as much as those around its opposite number, thus achieving nothing). But this is not the best option in this position just yet. There is a great improvement to be made before. As is the case in so many situations it is important to improve your worst placed piece, or the piece that can be best improved. In this respect it would be really nice to be able to do something for the f2-bishop, but right now it does a valuable job from f2, and no ideal square is apparent. But what about the e1-rook? The e4-knight is not going to move, and the e6-pawn is hardly weak. The following manoeuvre is therefore both logical and necessary, for an attack on Black's king cannot be seriously considered before White has mobilized all his forces to their optimum.
25.Re2!
The rook is brought to the c-file where it will do much more good. White has time to do this as Black has no obvious improvements to make.
25...Be7 26.Rec2 Rb8 27.Qd2 Rf8 28.h4 Ne8?! 29.Ne3 Ng7 30.Nc3!+/-

⚪️#437 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Salov,V
🔸Lautier,J
🔸Wijk aan Zee, 1991

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 437

C: Rd6 – 6
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B: Rb1 – 2
👍👍 25%

A: R×d8
▫️ 0%

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