✅ Today is birthday of Davit G Petrosian !!
Armenian chess grandmaster

🌴🌱🌿☘️🍀 Happy birthday Dear Petrosian!!
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The 43rd Chess Olympiad will be held in Batumi, Georgia, Sep 23 - Oct 6.

2 years ago, USA took the gold (first gold in 40 years) at the last Olympiad in Baku. The USA team is the favorite for the men's side. The US team is Caruana, Nakamura, So, Sam Shankland, and Ray Robson.

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The 2018 U.S. Olympic team. Seated (left to right): Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So. Standing: Ray Robson, John Donaldson, Sam Shankland

🏁✅ Batumi Chess Olympiad 2018.

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🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
⚫️Liang,Awonder (2575)
🔸1-0

20... Rac8?!
20... Re7!?
An interesting multi-purpose move:
1- taking a precaution against the threat of Bg2-f1-b5.
2- defending the f7-pawn.
3- clearing the e8-square for the knight.
21. Bf1!
Parham fully exploits the opportunity.
21...a6 22. b5! Ra8
22... a5 23. Nc6 +-
23. bxa6 Bxa6 24. Nb5 Re6 25. a4 Bxb5 26. axb5 Qc7 27. Rc1 Qa7 28. Ra1 Qb7 29. Ra6 d5 30. Rea1 +-

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2649)
⚫️Liang,Awonder (2575)
🔸1-0

40.Ra8
Parham uses a series of exchanges to put his opponent, Awonder Liang in zugzwang.
Awonder Liang is an American chess prodigy and Grandmaster. He is the second-youngest American to qualify for the Grandmaster title (after Samuel Sevian), and thirteenth-youngest in history.
40...Qc7 41.Rxd8! Qxd8 42.Ra8 Qd7 43.Ba3 Re8 44.Rxe8! Qxe8 45.Qc6! Qd8 46.Bd6 Kg7 47.Kg2 h5 48.Kh3 Kg8 49.Kg2! Kg7 50.Kf3! Kg8 51.Ke4 Kg7 52.Kd5 Kg8 53.Qb7 1-0

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Hakobyan,Aram (2554)
⚫️Petrosyan,Manuel (2581)
🔸1-0

28...Nc4+??
A miscalculation.
Petrosyan should have played 28...a4! to obtain at least an equal game:
29.Rxh6 axb3 30.Rxh7 Nc4+ 31.Kxb3 Nd2+ 32.Qxd2 Qxd2 33.Rxd2 Kxh7 34.c3 f6.
29.bxc4 Rxc4 30.Qd2 Rb4+ 31.Ka2 Ra4+ 32.Kb2 Rb4+ 33.Ka2 Ra4+ 34.Kb3 Rb4+ 35.Ka3 Qxf3+ 36.c3 Rb1 37.Ka2 Qf1 38.Rh1 Qxh1 39.Rxh1 Rxh1 40.Nxd6 Rd8 41.Qf4 Rd7 42Qe5 1-0

🔸FIDE World Junior Championships U20 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Vavulin,Maksim (2559)
⚫️Karthik,Venkataraman (2519)
🔸1-0

34...Kf5??
Suicide!
35.Rc4 1-0
If 35...Rc7, then 36.Ba5 Rc8 37.b4

The 5|1 segment is over in their #speedchess match and Aronian is leading 4.5-3.5 vs Anish Giri!

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⚪️#9 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gokerkan,Cem Kaan (2416)
🔸Santos Ruiz,Miguel (2524)
🔸57th World Juniors 2018 Manavgat TUR 2018

1.e4 c5 2. Ne2 Nf6 3. Nbc3 d5 4. exd5 Nxd5 5. g3 b6 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. Ne4 Qd7 8.O-O e6 9. c4 Nf6 10. Nxf6+ gxf6 11. d4 Bxg2 12. Kxg2 Nc6 13. d5 exd5 14. cxd5 O-O-O 15. Nc3 Nb4 16. Qh5 Bd6 17. Rd1 Be5 18. a3 Nc2 19.Ra2 Nd4 20.Bh6
20.b4!
A multi-purpose move: 1- opening a file on the enemy king. 2- activating his rooks. 3- weakening the opponent's knight position.
20...Kb7 21.f4 Bc7 22. Be3 Qf5 23. Qxf5 Nxf5 24. Bf2 cxb4 25. axb4 Rhe8 26. Kf3 Nd6 27. Bd4+/=
20. f4! A proper move that forces the bishop to retreat. 20...Bd6 21. Be3 Qf5 22. Qxf5+ Nxf5 23. Bf2 Kb7 24. Kf3 Be7 25. b3 Nd6 26. Re1 Rhe8 27.Rae2+/=
20. Be3!? Qf5 21. Qxf5+ Nxf5 22. Ne4 Rd7 = Black does not seem to be facing some serious problems.
20... Nf5 21. Raa1 Nxh6 22. Qxh6 Qf5 23. Rac1 Kb8 24. Qh3 Qg6 25. Qh4 h5 26. b4 cxb4 27. axb4 Qg4 28.Qxg4 hxg4 29. Ne2 Kb7 30. Rc4 f5 31. b5 Rd7 32. Nf4 Rhd8 33. Re1 f6 34. Ne6 Rh8 35. Rd1 Rdh7 36. Rh1 Rd7 37.Rd1 Rdh7 38. Rh1 Rd7
1/2-1/2

⚫️#9 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Macovei,Andrei (2385)
🔸Garidmagnai,Byambasuren (2287)
🔸57th World Juniors 2018