🔸Biel Grand Master Tournament 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2779)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2801)
🔸½-½

White has some nasty threats like Rd1, Nxe4 or Bb3. Mamedyarov does not allow his opponent to develop his plan.
20... Qf6!
20... g5? 21. Nxe4 dxe4 22. Rd1 Qe7 23. Ng6 Qg7 24. Nxf8 Rxf8 25. Bxe4 +-
21. Nh5 Qe5 22. Nf4 Rxf4 23. Ng6 Rf1+ 24. Kxf1 Qf5+ 25. Nf4 g5 26. Qg3 Kh7 27. Ke2 gxf4 28. Qxf4 Qxf4 29. Bxf4 Rg8 =

🔸Biel Grand Master Tournament 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2801)
⚫️Carlsen,Magnus (2842)
🔸1-0

21. Qe3!
A multi-purpose move:
1- Moving the queen away from the x-ray of the Black's rook on the d-file.
2- Controlling of the weak b6-square.
3- preparing the pawn push e4–e5.
21...Ra6 22. e5 b5 23. d6 Qb8 24. dxe7 Re8 25. Rfd1 =
White has the more comfortable position.

🔸Biel Grand Master Tournament 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2801)
⚫️Carlsen,Magnus (2842)
🔸1-0

56... Bc1??
Carlsen's strange blunder. He could have obtained very serious drawing chances with 56... Bb4 57. Rxf6+ Kg7 58. Rf7+ Kh6.
57. Kh3??
Mamedyarov gives him another chance.
57. e7 Re2 58. Kh3 +-
57... Rxf5??
But the World Champion refuses it!
57... Ba3! =
58. e7 1-0

🔸Asian Nation Cup Open 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Idani,Pouya (2583)
⚫️Islam,Kh Aminul (2293)
🔸1-0

10. a5 {A highly committal move. White wins space on the queenside and the tempi spent on advancing the a-pawn will be retrieved thanks to the relatively unsafe situation of the bishop. At the same time, Black is deprived of the freeing move ...Na5 forever. On the other hand, Black no longer has worries on the queenside and he can even hope that at some point the a5-pawn will become weak.} Ba7 ({Accepting the sacrifice with the king uncastled is dangerous.} 10... Nxa5 11. Rxa5 Bxa5 12. dxe5 Ng4 13. Bg5 f6 14. exf6 gxf6 15. Bh4 c5 16. h3 h5 17. Nbd2 {Simply developing. Black's position is a complete mess despite his big material advantage.})

10...Ba7 11.h3 Bb7 12.Be3 Ra8? 13.d×e5 B×e3? 14.e×f6 Bh6 15.f×g7 Bh6 16.f×g7 B×g7 16.Bd5 +/-

⚫️#593 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Giddins,S
🔸Emms,J
🔸Isle of Man, 1999

19...Bf8!
Black correctly intends to play ...c5.
20.a3
20.Rc1! Qxa2.
20...c5 21.dxc5 Rxc5 22.Rxc5 Qxc5 23.Qxc5 Bxc5=/+
the desired effect of opening up the position for the bishops had also been achieved.

⚪️#594 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,R
🔸Spassky,B
🔸Belgrade (1st matchgame), 1992

It's not surprising that with White's pieces offside, Black gained some counterplay, but White was able to regroup in order to gain the full point:
22.Ra3! Ndf6 23.Rea1 Qd7 24.R1a2 Rfc8 25.Qc1 Bf8 26.Qa1 Qe8 27.Nf1! Be7 28.N1d2
28.N3d2!? Kg7 29.f3+/-
28... Kg7 29.Nb1! +/-

⚫️#595 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Norris,A
🔸Gormally,D
🔸Oakham, 2000

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 595
public poll

C: Qh5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
@mhmdaqa, Maryam Darabi, Nikhil, Ramesh, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng

A: Q×a2 – 3
👍👍👍 25%
@SteveWongso, George, Zhenrui

B: Qd6 – 2
👍👍 17%
@moghaddam_chess, مجید

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚫️#596 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Rowson,J
🔸Adams,M
🔸London (match), 1998

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 596
public poll

C: f4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
@Chess_MT, @moghaddam_chess, Nikhil, Ramesh, Jahanbakhsh, @SteveWongso, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, George, Zhenrui

A: b6 – 3
👍👍 21%
España 🇪🇸, @mhmdaqa, مجید

B: Bg5 – 1
👍 7%
@RichardPeng

👥 14 people voted so far.

At the Women's World Championship (Borjomi/Tbilisi), 7th September 1981. In the centre, Nana Alexandria; on the left, her principal second*, Mark Dvoretsky.

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