22.fxe3!
If you follow the course of the game after 22 fxe3 you will see that not only has the f-file been opened for the white queen and rooks by the structure-wrecking 22 fxe3, but so has the second rank. Thus, when the second wave of White's attack appears with 31 g4, it is thanks to 22 fxe3 that Rg2 is possible to support the advance on the g-file. Sasikiran is curiously helpless at putting real pressure on the doubled pawns after 22 fxe3. He gets his knight to c4, but White defends e5 comfortably with Qf4, after which the pressure on the f-file dissuades Black from trying to arrange a second attack on the pawn with ...Qc7. And when the black queen combines with the knight against e3, Re2 defends the pawn without slowing down White's kingside operations. So let's see how Mamedyarov utilized the squares made available by 22 fxe3:
22...Nb6 23.Nh5 Ne8 24.Ref2 Rc8 25.Qg4 Nc4 26.Qg5 h6 27.Qf4 Qe7 28.Bh3 Qc5 29.Re2 Qb6 30.b3 Na5 31.g4 Kh7 32.g5 g6 33.gxh6 gxh5 34.Rg2 Nc6 35.Qg5 f5 36.Qg6+ 1-0
If you follow the course of the game after 22 fxe3 you will see that not only has the f-file been opened for the white queen and rooks by the structure-wrecking 22 fxe3, but so has the second rank. Thus, when the second wave of White's attack appears with 31 g4, it is thanks to 22 fxe3 that Rg2 is possible to support the advance on the g-file. Sasikiran is curiously helpless at putting real pressure on the doubled pawns after 22 fxe3. He gets his knight to c4, but White defends e5 comfortably with Qf4, after which the pressure on the f-file dissuades Black from trying to arrange a second attack on the pawn with ...Qc7. And when the black queen combines with the knight against e3, Re2 defends the pawn without slowing down White's kingside operations. So let's see how Mamedyarov utilized the squares made available by 22 fxe3:
22...Nb6 23.Nh5 Ne8 24.Ref2 Rc8 25.Qg4 Nc4 26.Qg5 h6 27.Qf4 Qe7 28.Bh3 Qc5 29.Re2 Qb6 30.b3 Na5 31.g4 Kh7 32.g5 g6 33.gxh6 gxh5 34.Rg2 Nc6 35.Qg5 f5 36.Qg6+ 1-0
In the game Wells had no wish to come under an attack, and so played:
28.Re3!
If Ward moves his rook away then 29 Nd3 consolidates the extra pawn, so he tried:
28...Rxe3 29.fxe3 Qf6 30.Rc1
28.Re3!
If Ward moves his rook away then 29 Nd3 consolidates the extra pawn, so he tried:
28...Rxe3 29.fxe3 Qf6 30.Rc1
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 467
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B: B×e5 – 11
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A: Qe7 – 3
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C: Qf8 – 1
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B: B×e5 – 11
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A: Qe7 – 3
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Nikhil, Saghana, @Sophia_Peng
C: Qf8 – 1
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 468
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B: e4 – 14
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@Anasiri6889, @Ehsan_fischer, siruse, Gavin, Nikhil, Vincent, Bryson, Sanjana, Venkat, Drew, Saghana, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Atharva
C: h4 – 5
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A: Qb2
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B: e4 – 14
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C: h4 – 5
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A: Qb2
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✴️ #about_Zukertort
🔸 Johannes Zukertort
🔸 German-Polish chess master
♦️ Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a leading German-Polish chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship; both were the world's best players.
🔘 Full name: Johannes Hermann Zukertort
🔘 Country: Congress Poland & German Empire & United Kingdom
🔘 Born: 7 September 1842
Lublin, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: 20 June 1888 (aged 45)
London, England
♦️Zukertort filled his relatively short life with a wide range of other achievements as a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist and political activist. He became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom in 1878.
Zukertort learned to play chess in Breslau when he was about 19. Entering a tournament in that city, and receiving the odds of the queen, he lost every game, whereupon he took up the study of Bilguer's Handbuch, with the result that in 1862 he won games from the leading German chess player Adolf Anderssen at the odds of a knight. Zukertort studied with Anderssen and within a very few years he became one of the strongest players in Germany.
Among many other notable matches that Zukertort played with Anderssen, he defeated him in 1866, lost in 1868 by a score of eight wins, three losses, one draw, and finally defeated him convincingly (5–2; no draws) in a match in 1871.[6][unreliable source][7] In 1867 he moved to Berlin and in 1872 to London. In that year, he played Wilhelm Steinitz in London, losing 9–3 (7 losses, 1 win, 4 draws).
♦️ A memorable game by Zukertort👇🏼
▪️ Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne
▪️ London (1883), London ENG, rd 22, Jun-11
▪️ Rubinstein Opening: Classical Defense (D05)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
🔸 Johannes Zukertort
🔸 German-Polish chess master
♦️ Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a leading German-Polish chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship; both were the world's best players.
🔘 Full name: Johannes Hermann Zukertort
🔘 Country: Congress Poland & German Empire & United Kingdom
🔘 Born: 7 September 1842
Lublin, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: 20 June 1888 (aged 45)
London, England
♦️Zukertort filled his relatively short life with a wide range of other achievements as a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist and political activist. He became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom in 1878.
Zukertort learned to play chess in Breslau when he was about 19. Entering a tournament in that city, and receiving the odds of the queen, he lost every game, whereupon he took up the study of Bilguer's Handbuch, with the result that in 1862 he won games from the leading German chess player Adolf Anderssen at the odds of a knight. Zukertort studied with Anderssen and within a very few years he became one of the strongest players in Germany.
Among many other notable matches that Zukertort played with Anderssen, he defeated him in 1866, lost in 1868 by a score of eight wins, three losses, one draw, and finally defeated him convincingly (5–2; no draws) in a match in 1871.[6][unreliable source][7] In 1867 he moved to Berlin and in 1872 to London. In that year, he played Wilhelm Steinitz in London, losing 9–3 (7 losses, 1 win, 4 draws).
♦️ A memorable game by Zukertort👇🏼
▪️ Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne
▪️ London (1883), London ENG, rd 22, Jun-11
▪️ Rubinstein Opening: Classical Defense (D05)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
39...g5??
Aronian's blunder that is met by a typical breakthrough.
40.g4!! h×g4 41.h5 Ke6 42.Kf2 Kf7 43.Kg3 Kg7 44.K×g4 +-
Aronian's blunder that is met by a typical breakthrough.
40.g4!! h×g4 41.h5 Ke6 42.Kf2 Kf7 43.Kg3 Kg7 44.K×g4 +-