21... b4!
Thanks to his pawn majority on the queenside, Black has a big advantage. In this pawn endgame, he practically has an extra pawn.
22. bxc4 dxc4 23. Qxc4 Bb7 24. Qe2 Rxc1 25. Rxc1 Qd5 26. Nbd2 Ne4 {Black is clearly winning.} 27. Nxe4 Qxe4 28. Kg2 Bd5 29. Ba1 0-1

⚪️#597 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Emms,J
🔸Shipov,S
🔸Hastings, 1999

The following controlled encounter is a joy to watch:
15.Bc1! Rfd8 16.g4! Qc5!
16...e5!? 17.Nf5 Bxf5 18.gxf5 exf4 with a complicated game.
Black fails to address the problems of the position. White's attack is very dangerous so the strong measures were called for.
17.g5 Ne8 18.f5 e5 19.Nd5!+-

⚫️#598 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Kasparov,G
🔸Short,N
🔸London (rapid), 1987

In a memorable encounter, Nigel Short correctly assessed that his opponent's position was kind of paralyzed. There is no defence to the innovative march of the black king into white territory whilst the black rook holds the fort at the back. Rather than suffer the indignation of the enemy monarch just coming down and picking off his g-pawn, the World Champion attempted a distraction, but he lost quickly anyhow:
45...Kg6!
Instead, there is no mate for Black after 45...Ne3+ 46.Bxe3 Qxe3 as the white rook defends adequately along the second rank. Also 45...Bg4 is foiled by 46.Kg2.
46.Bc1 Kh5 47.Ra8 Qc5 48.Rc8 Qa3 49.g4+ Bxg4 50.Rxc4 Qxa1
and White resigned.

⚫️#599 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Shirov,A
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Dos Hermanas, 1995

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 599
public poll

B: B×h3 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
Gavin, Nikhil, Jayden, @SteveWongso, @MerissaWongso, @AryanLeekha, Rachel, Sanjana

A: b5 – 3
👍👍👍 27%
@Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, Zhenrui

C: Q×h4
▫️ 0%

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚫️#600 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸McDonald,N
🔸Gormally,D
🔸Oakham, 2000

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 600
public poll

C: Nb8 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
@AntonioJGavira, Gavin, Nikhil, Jayden, @SteveWongso, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Rachel, George, Zhenrui, Sanjana, Raymond

B: Kh8 – 2
👍 13%
España 🇪🇸, @MerissaWongso

A: a5 – 1
👍 7%
@Sophia_Peng

👥 15 people voted so far.

#AbuDhabiMasters starts today with no less than 47 grand masters taking part.

See the top 10 players below.

#chessnews #abudhabichess

25th Abu Dhabi Masters

The 25th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival takes place from 7-15 August 2018 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Masters tournament is a 9-round Swiss open restricted to players with a FIDE rating of 2100 and above.

The winner receives $13,000. The time control is 90 minutes for the entire game plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. Official website: adchessfestival.ae

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/abu-dhabi-2018/

Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, Siegen 1970.

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☑️ Siegen ol final (1970), Siegen FRG, rd 15, Sep-19

⚪️🇷🇺 Boris Spassky
⚫️🇺🇸 Robert James Fischer

Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Classical Variation (D86)

Result : 1-0

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Tbilisi, 1st November 1982. Nana Alexandria and her guest, former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, on a Georgian TV sports programme.

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◼️ #Kasparov_chess_quotes_009

▪️ Garry Kasparov
▪️ Russian chess grandmaster
▪️ Former world chess champion

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◼️ #about_Kasparov

▪️ Garry Kasparov
▪️ Russian chess grandmaster
▪️ Former world chess champion

🔰 Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.

🔘Full name: Garry Kimovich Kasparov
🔘Countr:y Soviet Union
Russia (since 1992) Croatia (since 2014)
🔘Born: 13 April 1963 (age 55)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
(now Baku, Azerbaijan)
🔘Title: Grandmaster (1980)
🔘World Champion: 1985–1993 (undisputed)
1993–2000 (classical)
🔘FIDE rating: 2812 (August 2018) [inactive]
🔘Peak rating: 2851 (July 1999, January 2000)
🔘Peak ranking: No. 1 (January 1984)

🔰Kasparov played in a total of eight Chess Olympiads. He represented the Soviet Union four times and Russia four times, following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. In his 1980 Olympiad debut, he became, at age 17, the youngest player to represent the Soviet Union or Russia at that level, a record which was broken by Vladimir Kramnik in 1992. In 82 games, he has scored (+50−3=29), for 78.7% and won a total of 19 medals, including team gold medals all eight times he competed. For the 1994 Moscow Olympiad, he had a significant organizational role, in helping to put together the event on short notice, after Thessaloniki canceled its offer to host, a few weeks before the scheduled dates.
🔰 Kasparov made his international teams debut for the USSR at age 16 in the 1980 European Team Championship and played for Russia in the 1992 edition of that championship. He won a total of five medals.

♦️ A memorable game by Kasparov👇
🔸Garry Kasparov vs Andrei Sokolov
🔸Baku (1975), rd 2
🔸Sicilian Defense (B67)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇

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