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.
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.
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.
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.
16...a5!
Black still has development problems. With this move, he battles to open the a-file to get his rook on a8 into play quickly.
17.Ba3
Black's previous move was also aimed at dissuading 17.Nd4, since after Qa4 he maintains an active pin against b5.
17...axb4
Not now 17...Qa4? because of 18.Ng5! Be8 19.Rab1, and the attack has switched clearly to White.
18.Bxb4 Qf5-/+.
Black still has development problems. With this move, he battles to open the a-file to get his rook on a8 into play quickly.
17.Ba3
Black's previous move was also aimed at dissuading 17.Nd4, since after Qa4 he maintains an active pin against b5.
17...axb4
Not now 17...Qa4? because of 18.Ng5! Be8 19.Rab1, and the attack has switched clearly to White.
18.Bxb4 Qf5-/+.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 509
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A: Na6 – 5
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C: N8d7 – 3
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B: Qd6
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A: Na6 – 5
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Gavin, @Afshin3333, Ramesh, Bryson, @AryanLeekha
C: N8d7 – 3
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@Hesamgrandterminator, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng
B: Qd6
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 510
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A: Qb5+ – 8
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Gavin, Ramesh, Bryson, @jfhsraraerderypjnbvfdhhfdedb, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, @Chessreader7
B: h4 – 2
👍👍 18%
@Afshin3333, @amirgheesar
C: a4 – 1
👍 9%
@SophiaCat_does_Chess
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A: Qb5+ – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
Gavin, Ramesh, Bryson, @jfhsraraerderypjnbvfdhhfdedb, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, @Chessreader7
B: h4 – 2
👍👍 18%
@Afshin3333, @amirgheesar
C: a4 – 1
👍 9%
@SophiaCat_does_Chess
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💠 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018
♦️ First Day Games - RAPID
♦️Anand, So, Aronian Lead the tournament
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🛄 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018
RAPID GAMES - DAY ONE
ROUND3
🔹 Fabiano Caruana- Alexander Grischuk
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June 20-24, 2018
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RAPID GAMES - DAY ONE
ROUND3
🔹 Fabiano Caruana- Alexander Grischuk
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So, Anand & Aronian lead the Paris #GrandChessTour after the Day 1, with Caruana's woes continuing!
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☑️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔘Amsterdam Interzonal 1964
▪️ This qualification tournament for the 1965 Candidates matches was held May 20th- June 21th in the building of the GAK (Social Security Organization) in Amsterdam. The purpose was to select a challenger for Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, the World Champion.
The first six finishers would qualify, with the restriction that only three players from the Soviet Union could advance.
Two players were already seeded into the Candidates matches (and did not have to participate): Mikhail Botvinnik (as the loser of the Petrosian - Botvinnik World Championship Match (1963) and Paul Keres (as the winner of the Keres - Geller 2nd place Candidates Playoff (1962) that followed after the Curacao Candidates (1962). Botvinnik later (in March 1965) withdrew from the cycle so that Efim Geller who had failed to qualify in the USSR Zonal (1964) and therefore did not play in the Interzonal went to the Candidates matches after all (by virtue of his placement in Curacao).
▪️ All five participants from the Soviet Union finished in the top six, so the fifth and sixth-place finishers (Stein and Bronstein) were excluded as qualifiers, with Ivkov advancing instead and, after a playoff with Reshevsky, Portisch. The American champion Robert James Fischer chose not to play.
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🔘Amsterdam Interzonal 1964
▪️ This qualification tournament for the 1965 Candidates matches was held May 20th- June 21th in the building of the GAK (Social Security Organization) in Amsterdam. The purpose was to select a challenger for Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, the World Champion.
The first six finishers would qualify, with the restriction that only three players from the Soviet Union could advance.
Two players were already seeded into the Candidates matches (and did not have to participate): Mikhail Botvinnik (as the loser of the Petrosian - Botvinnik World Championship Match (1963) and Paul Keres (as the winner of the Keres - Geller 2nd place Candidates Playoff (1962) that followed after the Curacao Candidates (1962). Botvinnik later (in March 1965) withdrew from the cycle so that Efim Geller who had failed to qualify in the USSR Zonal (1964) and therefore did not play in the Interzonal went to the Candidates matches after all (by virtue of his placement in Curacao).
▪️ All five participants from the Soviet Union finished in the top six, so the fifth and sixth-place finishers (Stein and Bronstein) were excluded as qualifiers, with Ivkov advancing instead and, after a playoff with Reshevsky, Portisch. The American champion Robert James Fischer chose not to play.
♦️ Download Amsterdam 1964 games database by PGN format👇👇
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