🔸 Alexander Alekhine - Braslav Rabar, Munich 1942
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🔸 Notes by Alekhine
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🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Ssegwanyi,Arthur (2347)
⚫️Karjakin,Sergey (2760)
🔸0-1

10...Bxc3!
A clever positional exchange to create weaknesses in the resulting opponent's pawn structure and also his light squares.
11.bxc3 Ba6! 12.Bg5 Nbd7 13.Bxa6 Rxa6 14.Qb3 Qa8 15.Rfc1 Rc8 16.Qb2 h6 17.Be3 Ra4 18.h3 Qa6 19.Rc2 Ne4 -/+

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Aithmidou,Mohamed-Mehdi (2244)
⚫️Li,Chao b (2708)
🔸0-1

80... Ke4?
Missing an opportuinty.
Black could have obtained a draw in this interesting ending:
80... f2!!
A surprising move! Black wants to cut off the enemy's king from the third rank and reach a theoretical draw position.
A) 81. Kxf2 Rb3! 82. Ke2 Kc4 83. Kd2 Rd3+ 84. Kc2 Rc3+ 85. Kd2 Rb3 86. Ke2 Kd4
A1) 87. Rf3 Rb2+ 88. Kd1 Kxc5 =
A2) 87. Kf2 Kc4 88.Kg2 Kd4 89. Rf3 Rb5 90. Rf5 Rb3 =
B) 81. Kg2 Kc4 82. Kg3 Kd4 =
81. Rf8 Kd5 82. Rc8 Rb3 83. Rc7 Ke4 84. b7 Rb2 85. c6 Rg2+ 86. Kh3 Rg8 87. Rf7 1-0

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Del Castilho,Martyn (2250)
⚫️Idani,Pouya (2589)
🔸0-1

30.Qf6??
A blunder by the Barbadian FM. He should have prevented his opponent from playing ...f5 with 30.g4!
30... Bg7! 31. Qb6 f5 32. Bf3 e4 33. Re3 exf3 34. Rxe8+ Qxe8 35. gxf3 Qd7 36. Qxc5 Bf8 0-1

🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Naiditsch,Arkadij (2721)
⚫️Gurbanov,Andrei (2305)
🔸1-0

27... Bxe3??
Gurbanov mistakenly complicates the position which will cost him the game.
27... Qxe8 28. Qxc5 Rxc5 29. Rxc5 Bxa2 =
28. Nf6+ Kh8 29.Rxc2!
The most black pieces are now exposed to the attack.
29...Qxd3 30. Ne1 Qd8 31. fxe3 Na5 32. Nf3 Nc4 33. Nd5 1-0

⚪️#14 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Cadilhac,Igor Tokuichi Kikuc (2286)
🔸Ozgur,Tibet Kagan (2056)
🔸57th World Juniors 2018

15. Bf4!
Bringing out the bishop with the threat.
15. Bg5!? Nc7 16. Nxd6+ Bxd6 17. e5 Be7 18. exf6 gxf6 19. Be3+/-
15. Nd4!? Qc8 16. Ndb5 Qb8 (16...O-O 17. Nxd6+-) (16... Qc6 17. Bf4) 17. Bf4 e5 18. Bg5 O-O 19. Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Nxd6+-
15... e5 16. Bg5 Nc7 17. Nxc7+ Qxc7 18. Bxf6 gxf6 19. Nd5!
The White's mighty knight and weaknesses in the black kingside position give White a completely winning position.
19... Qd8
19... Qd7 20. Qh5+-
20. Ne3 Rc8 21. Rd3 Bf8 22. Rad1 Rc6 23. Qh5 h6 24. c3 Rg8 25. Nd5 Rg6 26. Qf5 Bg7 27. Nb4 Rb6 28. c4! Rg5 29. Qh3 f5 30. c5 fxe4 31. Rxd6 Rxd6 32. Rxd6 Qb8 33. Qd7+ Kf8 34. c6 bxc6 35. Nxc6 Qe8 36. Qxe8+ 1-0

⚪️#14 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Murphy,Conor E (2357)
🔸Nogerbek,Kazybek (2261)
🔸57th World Juniors 2018

54.Rxh2 [54.d5 Rc2 55.a4 Re2+ 56.Kd6 Kf6 57.Rxh4 Kg5 58.Rh8 Kf4 59.a5 Kg3 60.Kc6 Rc2+ 61.Kb6 Kg2 62.d6 Rb2+ 63.Kc7 Rc2+ 64.Kb7 Rb2+ 65.Kc8 Rc2+ 66.Kd7 Ra2=; 54.a3 Rc2 55.d5 Re2+ 56.Kf5 Rd2 57.Ke5 Re2+ 58.Kd6 Kf6 59.Rxh4 Kg5 60.Rh8 Kf4 61.Kc7 Rc2+ 62.Kb6 Rd2 63.Kc6 Kg3 64.d6 Kg2 65.d7 h1Q 66.Rxh1 Kxh1 67.Kc7 Rc2+ 68.Kd8 Kh2 69.Ke8 Re2+ 70.Kf7 Rd2=]

54...Rc6+ 55.Ke7 [55.Kd7 Rc3 56.Rxh4 Rc4 57.Kd6 Ra4 58.Kc5+–]

55...Ra6 56.Rxh4 Ra7+ 57.Kd6 Ra6+ 58.Kd7 Ra7+ 59.Kc6 Kf6 60.Re4 Ra6+ 61.Kb5 Rxa2 62.d5 Kf7 63.d6 Rd2 64.Kc6 Rc2+ 65.Kb7 Rc3 66.d7 Rd3 67.Kc6 Rc3+ 68.Kd6 Rd3+ 69.Kc7 Rc3+ 70.Kd8 Rh3 71.Rc4 1–0

⚪️#15 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Zhao,Chenxi (2275)
🔸Akin,Kadir (1974)
🔸57th World Juniors 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 15
public poll

C: 31.Qa5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
Vincent, @YaminiG, @Sophia_Peng, Rachel, Zhenrui, Alan, Sanjana, @chessnoob

A: 31.h4 – 2
👍👍 17%
Jonas, Gavin

B: 31.Qb4 – 2
👍👍 17%
@RichardPeng, Matthew

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚫️#15 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Olszewski,Michal (2529)
🔸Tazbir,Marcin (2525)
🔸TCh-POL Ekstraliga 2018 Poland