⚪️#624 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Beliavsky,A
🔸Groningen, 1993

19.a4!
Now White's a-pawn is better than Black's b-pawn!
19...Be7
19...Ne7 20.Ba3 0-0 21.Ne4 Re8 22.Nd6+/-
20.Re1! f6 21.Nc4 Kf7 22.Ne4 Nh6 23.a5!+/-

⚫️#625 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Yusupov,A
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Hastings, 1989

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 625
public poll

A: Bc8 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 70%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, Atharva, Zhenrui, Sanjana

B: Qd7 – 2
👍👍 20%
@RichardPeng, K

C: h6 – 1
👍 10%
Rachel

👥 10 people voted so far.

⚪️#626 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gulko,B
🔸Smyslov,V
🔸USSR Championship, Leningrad, 1977

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 626
public poll

A: Nec3 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Vincent, Atharva, K, Sanjana

B: b4 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
@AryanLeekha, Rachel, @TweLz, Zhenrui

C: Qa4 – 1
👍 10%
@Sophia_Peng

👥 10 people voted so far.

Carlsen Wins 'Throwback' Game To Join Sinquefield Leaders.

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Rd 2 (Aug 19) at Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis: Carlsen beat Karjakin after 88 moves and over 6 hours play. Caruana-Aronian drew in 38 moves. Grischuk-Mamedyarov drew in 24 moves. Anand-Vachier_Lagrave drew in 37 moves. So-Nakamura drew in 31 moves.

🔹 6th Sinquefield Cup 2018 - Round 2
🔹 PGN format

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Morphy making a move against Louis Paulsen during the First American Chess Congress (New York, 1857).

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Santa Monica, California, 17th July 1966. In the opening round of the 2nd Piatigorsky Cup, which was held at the Miramar Hotel, Samuel Reshevsky faces Robert J. Fischer.

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"If an opening is dubious, it is playable."

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One of Karpov's earliest published games - from 'Chess in the USSR' (No. 11, 1966) - the game I. Zaitsev v. Karpov, Tournament of Masters & Candidate Masters, Leningrad 1966.

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Jan Timman (Netherlands) v. Bill Lombardy (USA), 12th round, IBM Tournament, Amsterdam, July 1974. The American grandmaster won this game in 40 moves.

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