⚪️#558 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tregubov,P
🔸Greet,A
🔸European Club Cup, Fuegen, 2006

15.h4
To support the Ng5 sortie and to meet ...Bxg5 with hxg5 opening the h-file for the rook on h1.
15...Qc7
15...h6 tries to prevent Ng5, but... 16.Ng5! (anyway!) 16...hxg5 17.hxg5 g6 18.Rh6 Kg7 (or 18...Bxg2 19.Rxg6+ fxg6 20.Qxg6+ Kh8 21.Qh6+ Kg8 22.g6 Rf7 23.gxf7+ Kxf7 24.e6+ Kg8 25.Rg1
; Black's extra pieces are on a8 and b8!) 19.Rdh1 Rg8 20.e6 and White wins.
16.Ng5 g6 17.Bd5 dxe5 18.Nxh7! Kxh7 19.h5
Forcing open the h-file.
19...Kg7 20.hxg6 fxg6 21.Rdg1+-

⚪️#559 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Von Herman,U
🔸Jurkatis,H
🔸Berlin, 2000

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 559
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C: h4 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@mehrchess, Gavin, Zhenrui

A: c3 – 1
👍👍 25%
Jonas

B: Ne5
▫️ 0%

👥 4 people voted so far.

⚫️#560 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Chistiakov,A
🔸Petrosian,TV
🔸Moscow, 1956

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 560
public poll

C: a6 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
@mehrchess, @payam6661, Zhenrui

A: N×e3 – 2
👍👍👍👍👍 33%
Jonas, Vedant

B: h5 – 1
👍👍 17%
Gavin

👥 6 people voted so far.

🅾️ Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2018
ROUND TWO
♦️ Polish Chess Championship, 20 years old GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda beats Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in round 2 Dortmund 2018!! 👇👇
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Dortmund: Duda takes early lead

Dortmund R2: Duda Jan-Krzysztof leads the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Tournament after scoring a full point against Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter.

🔹 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018- Round 2
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Happy 90th birthday to the great Pal Benko! 🎂🎁🎉

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The legendary GM popularized the Benko Gambit, is the 1948 Hungarian champ, 8-time U.S. Open champ, and a chess author, and study composer.

In 1970, he gave his Interzonal spot to Fischer who used it to become world champion.

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In celebration of Pal Benko's 90th birthday, here is a pretty miniature by the grandmaster. 😍

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🔹 Pal Benko
🔹 Hungarian–American chess grandmaster

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✅ #about_Benko

🔹 Pal Benko
🔹 Hungarian–American chess grandmaster and chess Composer

🔰 Pal Benko is a Hungarian–American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.

🔘 Full name: Pál Benkő
🔘 Country: Hungary (until 1958) & United States (since 1958)
🔘 Born: July 15, 1928 (age 90)
🔘 Amiens, France
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1958)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2408 (July 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2530 (July 1973)

🔰 Benko was born in Amiens, France, but was raised in Hungary. At the age of 12, Benko’s world was devastated by World War II. Life in Hungary during the war became filled with hardships and traumas. He dug ditches for the Hungarian army, was then captured by the Russian army, which forced him to be a laborer. He eventually escaped to his home, to find that his brother and father had been sent to Russia as slaves. During a chess tournament in East Berlin, Benko tried to defect to the American embassy in West Berlin, but was captured and sent to a concentration camp for a year and a half. He starved and saw others around him die. He became Hungarian champion by age 20. He emigrated to the United States in 1958 after defecting following the World Student Team Championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1957. FIDE awarded him the Grandmaster title in 1958.

🔰 Benko's highest achievement was qualifying and competing in the Candidates Tournament—the tournament to decide the challenger for the World Championship—in 1959 and 1962. Both tournaments had eight of the world's top players. He finished eighth in 1959 and sixth in 1962.

🔰 Benko qualified for the 1970 Interzonal tournament, the leaders of which advance to the Candidates. However, he gave up his spot in the Interzonal to Bobby Fischer, who went on to win the World Championship in 1972.

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