⚫️#649 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Chandler,M
🔸Gulko,B
🔸OHRA Tournament, Amsterdam, 1987

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 649
public poll

A: Bc6 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@Afshin3333, Nikhil, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, Zhenrui, Alan

B: Rgh8 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng

C: Rh4 – 1
👍 13%
@mahyarebrahimi1983

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#650 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Chuchelov,V
🔸Georgiev,Kir
🔸Mainz (rapid), 2002

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 650
public poll

A: g6 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @Afshin3333, Nikhil, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Alan

B: Be7 – 3
👍👍👍👍 33%
Gavin, @Sophia_Peng, Zhenrui

C: Bd8
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

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♦️ Today is birthday of Alexander Onischuk!!
Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster

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🔸Alexander Onischuk
🔸Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster
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✴️ #about_Onischuk

🔸Alexander Onischuk
🔸Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster

🔰 Alexander Onischuk is a Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.

🔘Country:
🔻Soviet Union (until 1991)
🔻Ukraine (1991–2001)
🔻United States (since 2001)
🔘Born: September 3, 1975 (age 42)
🔺Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title: Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating: 2647 (September 2018)
Peak rating: 2701 (July 2010)

🔰 Originally from Ukraine, Onischuk immigrated to the United States in 2001. He represented Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad in 1994, 1996 and 1998, and has played for U.S. in this event since 2004. Onischuk won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2006.

🔰Onischuk finished second, after Magnus Carlsen, in the Grandmaster Tournament at the Biel Chess Festival in 2007. He scored 5½/9 points like Carlsen, but lost in the tie-breaker match held after the regular rounds finished.

🔰In the fall of 2012, Onischuk became the head coach at Texas Tech University. Under his coaching, the Texas Tech University Chess Program has won the 2015-2016 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and qualified five times for the Final Four.

♦️ A memorable game by Onischuk👇
▪️Gregory Kaidanov vs Alexander Onischuk
▪️US Championship (2008), Tulsa USA, rd 7, May-19
▪️Italian Game: Two Knights Defense. (C58)

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🔸Gregory Kaidanov - Alexander Onischuk, US Championship (2008)
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🔸Aftab Cup Open 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2636)
⚫️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2458)
🔸1-0

58... Bf7?
Black should have centralized his queen and attacked the pawn on b2 with 58...Qe5!
59. Qg4+ Ke4 60. Qe2+ Kf5 61. Qxb5+ Kf6 62. a4 Qd4 63. Kf3 Qd1+ 64. Ne2 Qf1+ 65. Ke3 Qh3+ 66. Kd2 Qh6+ 67. Kc3 Qh3+ 68. Kb4 +-

🔸Aftab Cup Open 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Veisi,Bardia (2273)
⚫️Grigoryan,Karen H (2578)
🔸0-1

32. Bd3??
White missed a golden opportunity to destroy his opponent's position:
32. Rxe5! dxe5 33. Qb3 e4 34. d6 +-
32... Bxe4 33. Bxe4 Rb7 34.Qc6 Rbb8 35. Qc4 Rc8
Now Black has a definite advantage.
36.Qc6
36.Qe2 Rxa2 37. Qxa2 Rc1+ 38. Kh2 Qg3+ 39. Bxg3 fxg3#
36... Rxc6 37. dxc6 Kh7 38. Nc1 Ra1 0-1

🔸Aftab Cup Open 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Guliev,Logman (2342)
⚫️Hakemi,Arman (2245)
🔸1-0

39... f5?
39... Nxe5! 40. Bxg6+ Nxg6 41. Rxe6 Rd1+ 42. Kh2 Rxe6 =
With the threat of obtaining counterplay with Ree1.
40. Re2 Nxe5 41. Nc5 Nxd3 42. Rxe6 Rdxe6 43. Rxd3 1-0

🔸Aftab Cup Open 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Soozankar,A.M (2328)
⚫️Darini,Pouria (2463)
🔸0-1

17... Rae8!
Black brings up his last reserve to join the game. Now he can consider the plans like ...Nh7-f5 or ...e4.
18. g4 hxg4 19. Bxf6 Bxf6 20. fxg4 Qd8 21. Qc2 e4 22. Qd2 e3 23. Qc2 Be5 -+