41.Qd7??
White should have forced the draw with 41.Rd1!, intending Rd4.
41. Rd1! Rxh3+ 42. Kg1 Rxg2+ 43. Rxg2 Qe3+ 44. Rf2 Qg3+ 45.
Rg2 Qe3+ =
41... Rxg2 42. R1xg2 Rxh3+ 43. Kg1 Qc1+ 44. Kf2 Qe3+ 0-1
White should have forced the draw with 41.Rd1!, intending Rd4.
41. Rd1! Rxh3+ 42. Kg1 Rxg2+ 43. Rxg2 Qe3+ 44. Rf2 Qg3+ 45.
Rg2 Qe3+ =
41... Rxg2 42. R1xg2 Rxh3+ 43. Kg1 Qc1+ 44. Kf2 Qe3+ 0-1
39...Rb4??
Vietnamese GM made a blunder in a drawn endgame. He could have obtained a draw with the following continuation:
39... f1=Q+ 40. Kxf1 Kg3 41. Rg2+ Kf3 42. Rf2+ Kg3 43.Kg1 Ra1+ 44. Rf1 Ra2 45. f7 Rg2+ 46. Kh1 Rh2+ 47. Kg1 Rg2+ =
40. f7 Rb8 41. Re8 1-0
Vietnamese GM made a blunder in a drawn endgame. He could have obtained a draw with the following continuation:
39... f1=Q+ 40. Kxf1 Kg3 41. Rg2+ Kf3 42. Rf2+ Kg3 43.Kg1 Ra1+ 44. Rf1 Ra2 45. f7 Rg2+ 46. Kh1 Rh2+ 47. Kg1 Rg2+ =
40. f7 Rb8 41. Re8 1-0
12.Bxf6!?
This interesting move prevents Black from playing ...c5.
12...B×f6
12...N×f6 Nb3
13.b4 a5 14.a3
This interesting move prevents Black from playing ...c5.
12...B×f6
12...N×f6 Nb3
13.b4 a5 14.a3
Forwarded from Captain Milad
⚪️#583 (Strategy-White to Move)
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🔸Torre,E
🔸Asian Team Championship, Dubai, 1986
10.Nce2
This clears the square for c2-c3 to support d4. The knight is also heading for the kingside to support the attack.
10...0-0 11.c3 Na5 12.Nf4 Rc8 13.Qe2 Nc4 14.Rae1
This clears the square for c2-c3 to support d4. The knight is also heading for the kingside to support the attack.
10...0-0 11.c3 Na5 12.Nf4 Rc8 13.Qe2 Nc4 14.Rae1
14.b4
White is just playing for the b5 break.
14...g6 15.Rab1 Bf5 16.a4 Rhe8 17.b5 cxb5 18.axb5 Bxe4?
Giving up the bishop for knight on e4 just to win the b5-pawn was a bad, bad decision.
19.Bxe4 Nxb5? 20.Qb3 Bd6
Alternatively, 20...a6 21.c4 Nd6 22.Bd5 when Black is helpless against Nf4-d3-c5, pressuring b7 and a6.
21.Qc4+ Qc7 22.Bxb7+ Kxb7 23.Qxb5+ Kc8 24.Nd5
Black resigned as 24.Nd5 Qd7 25.Qa6 wins.
White is just playing for the b5 break.
14...g6 15.Rab1 Bf5 16.a4 Rhe8 17.b5 cxb5 18.axb5 Bxe4?
Giving up the bishop for knight on e4 just to win the b5-pawn was a bad, bad decision.
19.Bxe4 Nxb5? 20.Qb3 Bd6
Alternatively, 20...a6 21.c4 Nd6 22.Bd5 when Black is helpless against Nf4-d3-c5, pressuring b7 and a6.
21.Qc4+ Qc7 22.Bxb7+ Kxb7 23.Qxb5+ Kc8 24.Nd5
Black resigned as 24.Nd5 Qd7 25.Qa6 wins.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 585
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B: o-o-o – 5
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C: Qe2 – 3
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A: Nce2 – 1
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C: Qe2 – 3
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A: Nce2 – 1
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 586
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Jonas, Ramesh, Jayden, Evan, @Sophia_Peng, Rachel, George
C: a4 – 4
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@SteveWongso, Mohamad, Ahmad, Zhenrui
B: 0-0-0 – 1
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A: Rg1 – 7
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Jonas, Ramesh, Jayden, Evan, @Sophia_Peng, Rachel, George
C: a4 – 4
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@SteveWongso, Mohamad, Ahmad, Zhenrui
B: 0-0-0 – 1
👍 8%
@RichardPeng
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☑️ #about_Bronstein
▪️ David Bronstein
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster
▪️ Chess Author
🔰 David Bronstein, who died on Tuesday aged 82, was a leading Soviet chess grandmaster and writer; like Viktor Korchnoi, he was often described as the greatest player never to have won a world championship.
🔘 Full name: David Ionovich Bronstein
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
🔘 Born: February 19, 1924
Bila Tserkva, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: December 5, 2006 (aged 82)
Minsk, Belarus
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1950)
🔘 Peak rating: 2595 (May 1974)
🔰 Some great chess players take a scientific approach to the game, delving into the intricacies of each position in a search for mathematical precision; others see it as an intellectual sport, with each player straining to overcome the opponent by force of will; but, among all the top grandmasters of the second half of the 20th century, David Bronstein was perhaps the one true chess artist.
🔰 In the opinion of many, he was the finest player who never won the world championship (though he came very close when he tied a match 12-12 with Mikhail Botvinnik in 1951); in the opinion of others, he was quite simply the most creative player of all.
🔰 He also wrote a number of highly individualistic chess books, of which his Mezhdunarodny Turnir Grossmeisterov account of the 1953 candidates' tournament in Zurich (published in 1956 and translated into English as The Chess Struggle in Practice, 1978) stands out as maybe the finest tournament book ever.
♦️ A memorable game by Bronstein from URS Championship(1945) which named "Scotch on the Rocks" in chessgames.com site!! 👇
🔸 Igor Bondarevsky vs David Bronstein
🔸 Ch URS (1/2 final) (1945), Moscow URS, rd 5
🔸 Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation. Accepted (C47)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
@unitychess
▪️ David Bronstein
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster
▪️ Chess Author
🔰 David Bronstein, who died on Tuesday aged 82, was a leading Soviet chess grandmaster and writer; like Viktor Korchnoi, he was often described as the greatest player never to have won a world championship.
🔘 Full name: David Ionovich Bronstein
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
🔘 Born: February 19, 1924
Bila Tserkva, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: December 5, 2006 (aged 82)
Minsk, Belarus
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1950)
🔘 Peak rating: 2595 (May 1974)
🔰 Some great chess players take a scientific approach to the game, delving into the intricacies of each position in a search for mathematical precision; others see it as an intellectual sport, with each player straining to overcome the opponent by force of will; but, among all the top grandmasters of the second half of the 20th century, David Bronstein was perhaps the one true chess artist.
🔰 In the opinion of many, he was the finest player who never won the world championship (though he came very close when he tied a match 12-12 with Mikhail Botvinnik in 1951); in the opinion of others, he was quite simply the most creative player of all.
🔰 He also wrote a number of highly individualistic chess books, of which his Mezhdunarodny Turnir Grossmeisterov account of the 1953 candidates' tournament in Zurich (published in 1956 and translated into English as The Chess Struggle in Practice, 1978) stands out as maybe the finest tournament book ever.
♦️ A memorable game by Bronstein from URS Championship(1945) which named "Scotch on the Rocks" in chessgames.com site!! 👇
🔸 Igor Bondarevsky vs David Bronstein
🔸 Ch URS (1/2 final) (1945), Moscow URS, rd 5
🔸 Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation. Accepted (C47)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
@unitychess