Unity Chess Multiple Choice 616
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A: e4 – 8
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España 🇪🇸, Jonas, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, Rachel, George, Zhenrui, Sanjana

C: Ng5 – 4
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@mahyarebrahimi1983, @mortazatargolghasemi, @aref_sbk, @RichardPeng

B: Rd2
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

Anton Korobov (2664) solely leads the Abu Dhabi chessfestival with 7/8 points. Today, in the last round, he takes on one of the runner-ups, GM Gabriel Sargissian (2680).

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🔹 25th Abu Dhabi - Round 8
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Vachier-Lagrave Shines In St. Louis; Nakamura, Mamedyarov Still Lead.

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Combined standings after rapid and day 1 of blitz

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🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Santa Monica 1966

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🛄 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Santa Monica 1966

🔹After the success of the First Piatigorsky Cup (1963), the second was organized by Gregor and Jacqueline Piatigorsky in Santa Monica, California from July 17-August 15, 1966, with Isaac Kashdan directing. The stellar field included the current and next two World Champions plus a slew of Candidates-level grandmasters in a double-round robin event:
🔻Jan Hein Donner
🔻Robert James Fischer
🔻Borislav Ivkov
🔻Bent Larsen
🔻Miguel Najdorf
🔻Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
🔻Lajos Portisch
🔻Samuel Reshevsky
🔻Boris Spassky
🔻Wolfgang Unzicker
🔸The Piatigorskys invited both Reshevsky and Fischer in spite of the Fischer - Reshevsky (1961) match fiasco.

🔹Spassky played steadily and was at or near the lead most of the way, unsheathing his claws when the time was right. Larsen gave him some competition for a while, even taking the lead in Round 10, but three losses in a row (the last being to Spassky) put an end to his challenge.
But it was Fischer who captured everybody's attention and made this into a "Tale of Two Tournaments". In the first half, a three-game losing streak (the last being to Spassky) left him in ninth place at the halfway mark, 2.5 points behind Spassky. Nothing daunted, he won his first four games in the second go-around and caught Spassky by round 16. Their draw in round 17 didn't change anything, but the last round saw Fischer with Black against Petrosian while Spassky had White against tail-ender Donner.
Petrosian had been having a lousy tournament, his two losses to Larsen both being of the immortal variety. In final round he hunkered down and secured a draw with Fischer, while Spassky demolished Donner to take first place.
In fact, Petrosian's even score made him the first world champion since Alekhine to achieve "only" an even score in a tournament.


▪️Results and Final Standings👇
( S E E B Y C O M P U T E R )
( O R W I D E D I S P L A Y T A B L E T )
(CHANGE SCREEN ROTATION OF MOBILE)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 Spassky 1½ ½1 1½ ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ 1½ ½1 11.5
2 Fischer 0½ 01 ½½ ½1 ½1 ½½ 01 11 ½1 11.0
3 Larsen ½0 10 ½0 1½ ½1 11 1½ 01 ½0 10.0
4 Unzicker 0½ ½½ ½1 ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ 1½ ½½ 9.5
5 Portisch ½½ ½0 0½ ½½ ½½ 1½ ½½ ½1 ½1 9.5
6 Reshevsky ½½ ½0 ½0 ½½ ½½ ½½ ½1 ½½ 1½ 9.0
7 Petrosian ½½ ½½ 00 ½½ 0½ ½½ 11 ½½ ½1 9.0
8 Najdorf ½½ 10 0½½½ ½½ ½0 00 1½ ½1 8.0
9 Ivkov 0½ 00 10 0½ ½0 ½½ ½½ 0½ ½1 6.5
10 Donner ½0 ½0 ½1 ½½ ½0 0½ ½0 ½0 ½0 6.0


✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Santa Monica 1066 Games Database" by PGN format👇

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🔹 "Santa Monica 1066 Games Database"
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▪️Boris Spassky vs Jan Hein Donner
▪️Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966), Santa Monica, CA USA, rd 18, Aug-15
▪️Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Worrall Attack Castling line (C86)
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⚪️#615 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Leko,P
🔸Topalov,V
🔸Frankfurt (rapid), 1999

13.Bg1!
A strong move, with the idea of g4.
13...0-0-0 14.g4 Nf6 15.f3 Nh7 16.Bf2 e5
16...Bf6? 17.d5 exd5 18.Nxd5 Qe5 19.Nxf6 Nxf6 20.Bxh4+/-
17.d5 Nd4 18.Nxd4! exd4 19.Rxd4
Topalov seems to attract various rook sacrifices on the d4 square in 99 ( although this time it's just an exchange as opposed to Kasparov-Topalov/Wijk/99 where Kasparov sacked a whole rook on d4).
19...Bxd4 20.Qxd4 b6 21.Nb5! Kb7 22.Qc3 Rc8 23.Nd4+/-

⚪️#616 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kiriakov,P
🔸Tiviakov,S
🔸Isle of Man, 1999

Black is a couple of moves away from completing his development when White will have a slight bind in the center due to the c4 pawn helping to restrain the d5 and b5 breaks. But White grasps on a familiar tactical motif and pursues it through in calculation...
13.Ng5! Rd8?
Gross blunder. 13...g6+/= is necessary.
14.Nd5!!
Unleashing the b2-bishop is quite stunning:
14...exd5 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Qxh7! Kf8 17.cxd5 d6 18.Bh5+-

⚫️#617 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Browne,W
🔸Gulko,B
🔸US Championship, Los Angeles, 1991