Unity Chess Multiple Choice 508
public poll

A: a5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 44%
Ramesh, Bryson, Srikar, @AryanLeekha

B: c6 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍 33%
@SteveWongso, @Sophia_Peng, @Ostad112

C: h5 – 2
👍👍👍👍 22%
Vincent, @RichardPeng

👥 9 people voted so far.

🔹 Johannes Zukertort
🔹 German-Polish chess master

▪️ Born: September 7, 1842, Lublin, Poland
▪️ Died: June 20, 1888, London, United Kingdom

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💠 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018

♦️ Starting in 30 minutes
♦️ Read about tournament and games schedule👇👇

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💠 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018


🔘 The Paris Grand Chess Tour is the 2nd of 5 stages of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour, in which 9 of the world's best players and wild cards will play for a total prize fund of $1.2 million.

🔘 The Paris event takes place in the studios of the CANAL+ TV channel in Boulogne-Billancourt and features Caruana, Nakamura, So, MVL, Anand, Aronian, Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Karjakin and wild card Kramnik.

🔘 The rapid event is a 10-player single round-robin and features 3 rounds each day on the first 3 days, with a time control of 25 minutes for all moves and a 10-second delay from move 1. The final 2 days are a blitz double round-robin, with 18 rounds of 5 minutes + 3-second delay blitz. Rapid games count double, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

🔹 ROUNDS SCHEDULE:

⌛️ Round 1 Jun 20, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round 2 Jun 20, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round 3 Jun 20, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round 4 Jun 21, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round 5 Jun 21, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round 6 Jun 21, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round 7 Jun 22, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round 8 Jun 22, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round 9 Jun 22, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round B1 Jun 23, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round B2 Jun 23, 2018 12:30
⌛️ Round B3 Jun 23, 2018 13:00
⌛️ Round B4 Jun 23, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round B5 Jun 23, 2018 14:00
⌛️ Round B6 Jun 23, 2018 14:30
⌛️ Round B7 Jun 23, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round B8 Jun 23, 2018 15:30
⌛️ Round B9 Jun 23, 2018 16:00
⌛️ Round B10 Jun 24, 2018 10:00
⌛️ Round B11 Jun 24, 2018 10:30
⌛️ Round B12 Jun 24, 2018 11:00
⌛️ Round B13 Jun 24, 2018 11:30
⌛️ Round B14 Jun 24, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round B15 Jun 24, 2018 12:30
⌛️ Round B16 Jun 24, 2018 13:00
⌛️ Round B17 Jun 24, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round B18 Jun 24, 2018 14:00

✅ Today rapid games will starting after 30 minutes and live broadcasting in two sites are below:👇👇


Chessbomb site: 🌐 https://goo.gl/sq4tBJ
chess24 site: 🌐 https://goo.gl/Eoehab

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🛄 #Mamedyarov_chess_quotes_001

🔸 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster

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🛄 #about_Mamedyarov

🔸 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster

🔰 Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mamedyarov is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He is the No. 1 ranked Azerbaijani player and No. 3 ranked player in the world as of May 2018. Mamedyarov has competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011, in 2014 and in 2018.

🔘 Full name: Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov
🔘 Country: Azerbaijan
🔘 Born: 12 April 1985 (age 33)
🔘 Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (2002)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2808 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2814 (February 2018)
🔘 Ranking: No. 3 (May 2018)
🔘 Peak ranking: No. 2 (February 2018)

🔰 Mamedyarov has competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011 (eliminated in quarterfinals), in 2014 (becoming fourth) and in 2018 (becoming second). He is a two-time World Junior Champion and was World Rapid Champion in 2013.

🔰 A gold medalist at the 2012 Chess Olympiad on the third board, he is a three-time European Team Champion (2009, 2013, 2017). He is also a two-time winner of Tal Memorial (2010 and 2014) and Shamkir Chess (2016 and 2017) tournaments.

🔰 In 2011, Mamedyarov was the tournament organisers' nominee, qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012, where he lost to Boris Gelfand in the first round.
In the 2014 cycle, he qualified for the Candidates tournament by coming second in the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13. He finished fourth in the Candidates, with a score of 7/14.
He failed to qualify for the 2016 Candidates. He came sixth in the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, and was knocked out in the quarter finals of the Chess World Cup 2015 by eventual winner Sergey Karjakin.
In the 2018 cycle, he qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2018 by winning the FIDE Grand Prix 2017. He finished as a runner-up in Candidates one point behind Caruana, with a score of 8/14.

♦️ A memorable game by Memedyarov against Kramnik names "When the Shak Bites" in chessgames.com site!👇
🔸 Vladimir Kramnik vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2008), Nice FRA, rd 3, Mar-17
🔸 Budapest Defense: General (A52)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇

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🔸 Vladimir Kramnik - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , Nice 2008
🔸 PGN format

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🔸Rapid Your Next Move Leuven 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2782)
⚫️Grischuk,Alexander (2766)
🔸1-0

34...Rf6??
Missing a golden opportunity.
35...Q×g2+! 35.Q×g2 R×g2+ 36.K×g2 f×e3 -+ would leave White helpless.
35.Re4 Qg3+ 36.Q×g3 f×g3+ 37.Kg1 R×f1+ 38.B×f1 B×h3 =

🔸Rapid Your Next Move Leuven 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2816)
⚫️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2789)
🔸½-½

34.b3?
Caruana could have won the game with 34.Qg5!!
34.Qg5!! R×c4 35.Ne7+
A) 35...Kf8 36.Rf1+ Ke8 37.Q×g6+ Kd7 38.Nf5 +- with three threats:
1-Q×g7
2-Qf7--->Q×c4
3.Q×d6+--->Ne7+
B) 35...Kh8 36.Q×h4+ Bh6 37.Q×h6#
34...R×c4 35.b×c4 Qb3 36.Ne3 Rf8 37.Qe2 Rf4 =

🔸Rapid Your Next Move Leuven 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2808)
⚫️Giri,Anish (2782)
🔸½-½

The game ended up by repeated moves: 25.Rc5 Nb7 26.Rcc1 Nd6 27.Rc5 Nb7 28.Rcc1 Nd6. 1/2-1/2
Although Mamedyarov could have finished the game with a beautiful shot:
29.R×h7!! K×h7 30.Rh1+ Kg8
30...Kg7 31.Ngh5+ +-
31.Rh6 Qe7
31...Kf7 32.R×g6
A)32...Qh8 33.R×d6 +-
B)32...Qe7 33.Nf5 +-
32.Q×g6+ Qg7 33.Qh5 +-

🔸Rapid Your Next Move Leuven 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2808)
⚫️Karjakin,Sergey (2782)
🔸½-½

61.Ke5?
Mamedyarov has missed an easy win.
61.Rg7+ Kd6 62.R×c7 K×c7 63.Ke5 Bd1 64.e7 Ba4 65.Bg6 1-0
61...Rc5+ 62.Kf4 Bg4 63.Rg7+ Kf8 64.Rf7+ Ke8 65.Bg6 Rc4+ 66.Ke5 B×e6 67.K×e6 Kd8 68.Bf5 R×h4
Now, White has difficult task to win the game.

⚪️#507 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Rubinstein,A
🔸Tarrasch,S
🔸Carlsbad, 1923

39.Qc6!
By exchanging the second pair of rooks and incidentally forcing Black's knight to retreat again to b8, this very strong move completely eliminates any possibility of counterplay and wins at least a pawn.
39...Rxa8 40.Qxa8+ Nb8
Retaining queens on the board loses quickly. Black's distant knight and queen cannot hope to resist against an attack on Black's king by White's powerful queen and bishop.
Black had to play a pawn down in the difficult endgame arising after 40...Qb8 41.Qxb8+ Nxb8 42.Kg4, followed by Kf5, and winning Black's e-pawn.
41.Qd5!
Black suffers from fatal back-rank and light-square weaknesses. White threatens 42 Qf7 with dual threats of mate on e8 or f8 or, via g6 or f5, on h7.
41...Qc7 42.Bf5!+/-
Now White threatens 43 Qe6, followed either by 44.Qe8+ or Qg6.

⚫️#508 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Spielmann,R
🔸Rubinstein,A
🔸Baden-Baden, 1925