⚫️#640 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Doroshkievich,V
🔸Gulko,B
🔸USSR Championship, Yerevan, 1975

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 640
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B: a4 – 9
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Gavin, Nikhil, Jayden, @SteveWongso, Vincent, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Zhenrui, Sanjana

C: h6 – 2
👍👍 18%
@Sophia_Peng, George

A: Nd5
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👥 11 people voted so far.

A very exciting round in the #RussianChampionship Superfinals with 3 decisive games.

Daniil Dubov (2691), Vladimir Fedoseev (2707), and Grigoriy Oparin (2609) all have won their games to join Dmitry Andreikin (2710) in the lead.

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🔹 71st ch-RUS 2018
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🔹 68th ch-RUS w 2018
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The three players decided to share the title of the 2018 #SinquefieldCup winner. Congratulations to Fabiano Caruana, Aronian and Carlsen !!

Final rd 9 at Sinquefield Cup: Magnus Carlsen (2836) beats Nakamura (2777) in 97 moves, and Aronian (2767) beats Grischuk (2766) after a rook sacrifice. The other games were drawn. Aronian, Caruana (2822), and Carlsen all tied for 1st. There is a playoff for first on Aug 28.

Final #GrandChessTour standings. Join us tomorrow at the same time for a tiebreak between Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana for the final qualifying spot to London!

🔹 6th Sinquefield Cup 2018 - Round 9
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UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHY

✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Nottingham 1936

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⏺ Chess History - Tournaments
🔘 Nottingham 1936

🔸The Nottingham International Chess Tournament held August 10-28, 1936, was one of the strongest tournaments ever held. The event was held at the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, England. It was certainly the strongest chess tournament held up to that time. The event had the current world chess champion (Euwe), three past world champions (Lasker, Alekhine, and Capablanca) and a future world champion (Botvinnik). We could say it had two future world champions as Alekhine won the title back from Max Euwe a year later. Ten of the top 12 players in the world participated (missing were Andor Lilienthal and Paul Keres). Also included were the four top British players. Because the top British players were participating in this event, no British Chess Championship was held in 1936. The event also included the top two American players, Sam Reshevsky (US Champion) and Reuben Fine.

🔸The tournament was organized by Alderman Job Nightingale Derbyshire (1866-1954), President of the British Chess Federation, who put up half the cost. It was intended to mark the Jubilee of the Nottingham Tournament, held in August of 1886 (Counties Chess Association Congress). That event, held 50 years earlier, was won by Amos Burn (8 out of 9). 2nd place went to E. Schallop. 3rd-4th went to Gunsberg anmd Zukertort. 5th place went to Bird.

🔸The tournament director was Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson (1878-1943). He later married Vera Menchik, world women’s champion, after his first wife died when she ran into an aircraft propeller blade. RHS Stevenson was the Secretary of the British Chess Federation.

🔸Money for the tournament was raised by Derbyshire, RHS Stevenson, and Sir George Thomas.

🔸The participants stayed at the Victoria Station Hotel and partook in a garden party at Rempston Hall.

🔸The time limit was 36 moves in 2 hours. It should have been 30 moves in 2 hours, but a misprint went unchanged. Reshevsky got into time trouble in almost every game. A FIDE rule was in affect at the time, that no game shall be agreed to a draw in less than 30 moves. This rule could not be enforced and was ignored in this tournament.

✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Nottingham 1936 Games Database" by PGN format👇


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🔸 Nottingham 1936 Games Database
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✴️ Our two selected games from Nottingham 1936 Chess Tournament:👇

1️⃣ Jose Raul Capablanca vs Alexander Alekhine
1️⃣ Nottingham (1936), Nottingham ENG, rd 2, Aug-11
1️⃣ Dutch Defense: Alekhine Variation (A92)
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2️⃣ Efim Bogoljubov vs Mikhail Botvinnik
2️⃣ Nottingham (1936), Nottingham ENG, rd 3, Aug-12
2️⃣ Indian Game: Capablanca Variation (A47)
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♦️PGN fiile of these games are in "Nottingham 1936 Games Database":
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✴️ Nottingham 1936 selected game one
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✴️ Nottingham 1936 selected game two
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🔸 A historical image from Nottingham 1936 chess tournament
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We got an "impossible" result in the 2018 #SinquefieldCup, as MagnusCarlsen, LevAronian and FabianoCaruana shared 1st place after an enthralling final day!

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Levon Aronian's inspired rook sacrifice on f7 underscores how difficult it is to defend flawlessly when under pressure.

https://bit.ly/2BVJDAW