🔸Gideon Japhet Cup 2018(25+10 Min)
🔸Round 3
⚪️Svidler,Peter (2753)
⚫️Meier,Georg (2628)
🔸1-0

37... Ke7??
German GM Georg Meier couldn't manage to hold a drawn position.
(37... Rb1! 38. Kd2 Rb2+ 39. Ke3 Rb1 40. g7 Rg1 41. Rh7 c3 42.Kf2 Rg6 43. h5 Rg5 44. Bd1 Ng4+ 45. Ke2 Nf6 46. Rh6 Ke5 47. Rg6 Rxg6 48. hxg6 Kf5 49. Bc2+ Kg5 =)
38. g7 Kf7 39. Rxe6 Nd3 40. Re7+ Kg8 41. h5 Rb8 42. Bg4 Nc5 43. Bf5 1-0

🔸Gideon Japhet Cup 2018(25+10 Min)
🔸Round 4
⚪️Meier,Georg (2628)
⚫️Svidler,Peter (2753)
🔸½-½

8... Rb8!?
A very shrewd way to stop White from going b2-b4.
8... Be7 ?! 9.b4! cxb4 10. axb4 Bxb4? 11. Nxe5!1 Nxe5 12. Qa4+ Nc6 13. Bxc6+ bxc6 14.Qxb4 +- shows White's idea perfectly.
9. Rb1 Be7 10. b4 cxb4 11. axb4 b5 12. Qc2 Rb6 =

🔸Gideon Japhet Cup 2018(25+10 Min)
🔸Round 5
⚪️Meier,Georg (2628)
⚫️Ivanchuk,Vassily (2710)
🔸1-0

11... Ba5?
Ivanchuk's miscalculation.
12. Qxb7 Bxe1 13. Qxa8 Bxf2+??
More resistance could have been put up with 13...Qa5 +/-
14. Kxf2 Qd7 15. Nd4 Bh3 16.Bf4
1-0

🔸Gideon Japhet Cup 2018(25+10 Min)
🔸Round 5
⚪️Gelfand,Boris (2703)
⚫️Svidler,Peter (2753)
🔸1-0

18... Bc5??
Svidler's blunder that is punished by Gelfand.
19. b4 Bxb4
(19... Bd4 20. b5)
20. Nxb4 Nxb4 21. Bxb7 Rcb8 22.Bxa8 Rxa8 23. Rd2 +-

⚪️#539 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Topalov,V
🔸Naiditsch,A
🔸Dortmund, 2005

15.Qf4!
The alert Bulgarian Grandmaster intends to exploit the undefended state of the rook on d8 to hinder Black's development.
15...b5
Instead, 15...e5 weakens Black's central squares without winning any material after 16.Qh4!. For example, 16...Rf8 17.Nc2, when the plan of 18 Rae1 and 19 Re3 is awkward to meet.
16.Qc7!
Stopping Black from playing 16...Bb7, when the threat of mate on g2 would buy him time for ...Nc6 with equality.
16...Qf8 17.Bd3 Rd7 18.Qf4 Bb7 19.Rae1
The rook threatens to decide matters with 20 Re3 and 21 Rg3+.
19...Qg7 20.Be4
Meeting the mate threat on g2.
20...Kh8 21.Re3+-

⚫️#540 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Alekhine,A
🔸Marshall,F
🔸Baden-Baden, 1925

14.Qe3!
It is better to deny the black queen any dark squares in the center before pushing her backward. Hence the second white queen move generates more energy than 14.f4 at once which would allow 14...Qc5.
An equally important point of Alekhine's maneuver is that Black is unable to castle queenside due to the attack on a7. This persuades Marshall to send his king to the kingside, where it is in range of White's mobile center pawns.
14...Bc6 15.0-0-0 0-0 16.f4 Qe6 17.e5
White's central pawns are bursting with energy. Marshall tries to fight against them using his pieces, but without the restraining influence of any black pawns, there's no way he can hold them back.
17...Rfe8 18.Rhe1+/-

⚫️#541 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Bogoljubow,E
🔸Alekhine,A
🔸Hastings, 1922

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 541
public poll

B: a5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
@Hamed_85, Jonas, Gavin, Ramesh, Jahanbakhsh

C; Qe8 – 3
👍👍👍👍 38%
Bryson, @RichardPeng, Michael

A: Re8
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#542 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Capablanca,Jose Raul
🔸Alekhine,Alexander
🔸St Petersburg, 1913

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 542
public poll

A: Qa5 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
@Hamed_85, Jonas, Ramesh, Hosein, Jahanbakhsh, @Omid_kh7225, Yiyi, Uzlari kim bo`ladi, Michael

B: h4 – 4
👍👍👍 27%
Re, Gavin, Bryson, فیروزه

C: Re3 – 2
👍👍 13%
@eximius, @RichardPeng

👥 15 people voted so far.

A very interesting game between the 12th Women's #WorldChampion Alexandra Kosteniuk and the Uzbek chess prodigy, the third-youngest #grandmaster in history Nodirbek Abdusattorov at the 5th Purtichju Open.
https://t.co/9WBLvzwf9X

🔸Gideon Japhet Cup 2018(25+10 Min)
🔸Round 6
⚪️Svidler,Peter (2753)
⚫️Gelfand,Boris (2703)
🔸0-1