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🔸Abu Dhabi Masters 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Salem,A.R. Saleh (2636)
⚫️Raja,Rithvik R (2436)
🔸1-0

26... Qf2??
14-year-old Indian FM made a strange blunder.
26... Bc8 27. Bd3 Qf2 28. Qh5 Bf5 =
27. Rxb7 Re8 28. Ka2 1-0
if 28...Re1 29. Qh5 Qxf1 30.Rb8+ Kg7 31. Qh6#

🔸Abu Dhabi Masters 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Fedoseev,Vladimir3 (2707)
⚫️Fier,Alexandr (2561)
🔸1-0

26. c4!
Fedoseev tries to open up lines for his pieces by tactical means.
26...dxc4 27. d5! Bc5 28. Bxc5 Qxc5 29.Qe1 Kb8 30. Nxe6 Bxe6 31. dxe6 Rhe8 32. Rxg7 +-

🔸Abu Dhabi Masters 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2636)
⚫️Aryan,Chopra (2536)
🔸1-0

40... Kh6??
Black should have prepared to execute a perpetual check with 40... Bd7!=
A) 41. Bc6 41... Bxg1 42. Bxd7 Qe2+ 43. Kxg1 Qe1+ 44. Kg2 Qe2+ 45. Kh3 Qf1+ 46.Kh2 Qf2+ =
B) 41. Qc7 Bxg1 42. Kxg1 Qd1+ 43. Kh2 Qe2+ 44.Bg2 Qe6 =
41. Qf7 Qd7 42. Qf6 Bxg1 43. Kxg1 Qh3 44. Qf8+ Kh5 45. Bf3+ Bg4 46.Qf4 1-0

🔸Abu Dhabi Masters 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Korobov,Anton (2664)
⚫️Adly,Ahmed (2634)
🔸1-0

28. Rc7!+
A miniature win against Egypt's number 2.
28...Kg8
(28... Qxc7 29. Qf8#)
29. Ne7+ 1-0

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

25...b5!
Black has an active position. How does he develop the initiative? White's pieces are well placed but Black can destroy the coordination of White's pieces with 25...b5!.
26.Rc6+ Kd5 27.Rc5+ Kd4!? 28.c3+?! Kxe4 29.Re1+ Kf4 30.Rexe5 Rxf2+-/+

⚫️#618 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Miles,A
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Philadelphia World Open, 1987

Black needs to get the rook off the long diagonal but 16...Rac8 would be a serious mistake. Black's plan is to play on the queenside and he needs both rooks present on that side of the board. If 16...Rac8, then the rook on f8 would not have room to move.
16...Rab8! 17.0-0 Rfc8 18.f4 Kf8 19.e4 Na5 20.c3 Nc4.

⚫️#619 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Taimanov,M
🔸Gulko,B
🔸USSR Championship, Moscow, 1976

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 619
public poll

B: h6 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
shafiei M.A, شیدا, @soheil_hooshdaran, Gavin, @Afshin3333, @RichardPeng, George, Sanjana

A: d5 – 3
👍👍👍 23%
@Sophia_Peng, Rachel, Zhenrui

C: b5 – 2
👍👍 15%
Vincent, @Omid_kh7225

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚪️#620 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Ponomariov,R
🔸Pamplona, 1996

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 620
public poll

B: g4 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 86%
España 🇪🇸, شیدا, @soheil_hooshdaran, Gavin, @Afshin3333, Vincent, محمد, Rachel, @EhsAn_0123, George, Zhenrui, Sanjana

A: Qc3 – 2
👍 14%
@Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng

C: Rde1
▫️ 0%

👥 14 people voted so far.

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