After Kramnik beat the leader today we have a 4-way tie for 1st going into the final Dortmund rest day. In the remaining game Giri looks set to inflict a 3rd loss in a row on Nisipeanu!

🔹 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018- Round 4
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⚫️#563 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸San Segundo Carrillo
🔸Sadler,M
🔸1997

16...b5!
This takes c4 away from the white knight. Moreover, a2-a4 isn't dangerous anymore.
17.e4 Nf8!
Heading for g6, tickling the f4-square.
18.N4f3 Qc7 19.a3 Rd8 20.b4 Ng6!

⚫️#564 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Taimanov,M
🔸Yusupov,A
🔸USSR, 1982

18...Kh8!
In this typical Hedgehog position, Yusupov borrows Fischer's plan.
19.Rc2 Rg8! 20.Rcd2 g5! 21.Bd4 Rg6 22.Nc1 Rcg8 23.Nd3 Qf8 24.Re1 g4!-/+
Black has a big initiative.

⚫️#565 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Korchnoi,V
🔸Yusupov,A
🔸Montpellier Candidates, 1985

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 565
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B: g5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%
Jonas, Nikhil, Ramesh, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, Zhenrui

A: b6 – 1
👍 13%
@Hamed_85

C: Rf6
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#566 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gheorghiu,F
🔸Yusupov,A
🔸World Team Championship, Lucerne, 1985

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 566
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A: B×e5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
Jonas, Nikhil, Ramesh, @RichardPeng, Zhenrui

B: g4 – 3
👍👍👍👍 38%
milad, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng

C: Qc7
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

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🔹 Oleg Romanishin
🔹 Ukrainian Chess Grandmaster

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💠 #about_Romanishin

🔹 Oleg Romanishin
🔹 Ukrainian Chess Grandmaster

🔰 Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and former European junior champion.

🔘 Full name: Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin
🔘 Country: Ukraine
🔘 Born: 10 January 1952 (age 66)
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine)
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1976)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2440 (July 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2615 (July 1993)

🔰Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin was born in Lvov, then in the USSR. Awarded the IM title in 1973 and the GM title in 1976, he was European Junior Champion in 1972-73. A pupil of Viktor Emmauelovich Kart (born 1929), he has achieved fine tournament results such as =1st at the October Revolution 60th Anniversary (1977), 2nd at Tilburg 1979, =3rd at Sochi 1982, 1st at Moscow 1985, and =1st at Reggio Emilia 1985-86, but has never qualified as a FIDE Candidate.
He is reputed to have said that "Draws make me angry" and remains a strong GM with an aggressive style just a level below the top rank. He is also a leading chess opening theorist.

🔰Many honours and awards were bestowed on Romanishin as a young man. After winning the European Junior Championship in 1973, he became an International Master the same year. In 1974, Romanishin was a member of the victorious USSR team at the World Student Team Championship held in Teesside, England, where he scored the best result for board 4 (8/9).

🔰The following year, he had a terrific result at the USSR Championship, sharing second place with Boris Gulko, Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian, after Tigran Petrosian. In 1976, his Grandmaster title was ratified.

♦️ A memorable game by Romanishin which has won Ivanchuk in 19 moves!!👇
▪️ Oleg Romanishin vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️ URS-ch FL54 (1986), Irkutsk URS
▪️ French Defense: Advance. Euwe Variation (C02)

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🔹 Oleg Romanishin - Vassily Ivanchuk, URS-ch FL54 (1986)
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🔸Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Duda,J (2737)
⚫️Wojtaszek,R (2733)
🔸1-0

23... Rd2??
White is better, but this move increases his advantage.
Better is 23... Rb7 24. Rxc4 Qxd5 25. Rd1 Qe6+/-
24. Rxc4 Qd6 25. Qa7 Bf6 26. Nh5 Kh8 27. Nxf6 exf6 28. Rd4 1-0

🔸Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Nisipeanu,Liviu-Dieter (2672)
⚫️Giri,Anish (2782)
🔸0-1