⚪️#18 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Gruenfeld Yehuda (2418)
🔸Jobava Baadur (2634)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 18
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C)37.Ra8 – 7
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Jayden, Vincent, @YaminiG, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha, Michael, Zhenrui

A)37.Rxd7 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng

B)37. Bxd7
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

Chess Olympiad: Czech Beats China, Poland Rolls On In Round 5.
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Rd 5 at Batumi: USA-Israel, 2-2 (Caruana wins, Shankland loses); Azerbaijan-Armenia, 2.5-1.5; Poland-France, 3-1; Czech Republic-China, 3-1; Ukraine-Spain, 2.5-1.5; Germany-Moldova, 2.5-1.5. England-Italy, 3-1. Rd 6 on Sunday. Pairings: USA vs Bosnia, Russia-India, & China-Iran. #chessnews

🔹 43rd Olympiad 2018 - Round 5
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🔹 Olympiad Women 2018 - Round 5
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#Gaprindashvili_chess_quotes

♦️ Nona Gaprindashvili
♦️ Sixth women's world chess champion
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🅾️#about_Gaprindashvili

💢 Nona Gaprindashvili
💢 Georgian chess player
💢 First female Grandmaster
💢 Sixth women's world chess champion

🔰 Nona Gaprindashvili is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess champion, and first female Grandmaster. Born in Zugdidi, Georgia, she is the strongest female player of her generation.

🔘 Country: Soviet Union & Georgia
🔘 Born: 3 May 1941 (age 77)
Zugdidi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1978)
🔘 Women's World Champion: 1962–78
🔘 Peak rating: 2495 (July 1987)

🔰 Nona Gaprindashvili began playing chess at the age of five. Seven years later, she moved to Tblisi, where she trained with Georgian grandmasters. Her shrewd, aggressive play won her great success early in her career. In 1961, she won the Women’s Candidates Tournament. The following year, she challenged Elizaveta Bykova in the Women’s World Championship and won. Her victory in this tournament brought her fame and made her a symbol of regional pride in Georgia. Nona Gaprindashvili went on to win the Women’s World Championship four more times. Three of these matches were against Alla Kushnir, while the last was against Nana Alexandria, a fellow Georgian. In 1978, Nona lost her title to another Georgian player, Maya Chiburdanidze.
🔰 She was a five-times winner of the Women's Soviet Championship: in 1964, 1973, 1981, 1983, and 1985.

♦️ A memorable game by Gaprindashvili 👇
🔸 Nana Ioseliani vs Nona Gaprindashvili
🔸 Ch World Candidate match (1980), Tbilisi (Georgia), rd 7
🔸 Spanish Game: Closed. Pilnik Variation (C90)

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♦️ Nana Ioseliani vs Nona Gaprindashvili, Tbilisi 1980
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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Bobby Fischer - Gruenfeld Defence, Varna Olympiad 1962.

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Browne (front left) analyzing with Karpov and Tal. (Las Palmas 1977) Browne had missed a forced win!

#chesshistory

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Beautiful combination from Paul Morphy vs Eugene Rousseau, New Orleans, 1849. White to move and win.

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"The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this."

🔸 Anatoly Karpov

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🔸World Chess Olympiad Batumi 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Aronian,Levon (2780)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2820)
🔸0-1

23...Bxg2!
Mamedyarov finds the best continuation.
24.Kxg2 Qg6+ 25.Kf1 Bxh2 26.Re1
26.Nc5! Re8 27.Ne4 Rf5 28.Rad1 Bf4 29.Qh3 Rh5 30.Qf3 Bxd2 31.Rxd2 Qh6 +/-
White is still better but his task is not easy.
26...Rg5 27.Ke2?
Aronian's miscalculation. He has neglected the opponent's reply.
27. Nc3!
A) 27...Bf4 28.Qe7 Rg1+ 29.Ke2 Rxe1+ 30.Kxe1 Qg1+ 31.Ke2 Qg4+ 32.Ke1 Qg1+ with perpetual check.
B) 27...Qh5 28.f3 Bg3 29.Rg2 Bxe1 30.Rxg5 fxg5 31.Kxe1 Rxf3 32.Qe5=
27...Re8! 28.Kd1 Rg1!
A strong intermediate move.
29.Be5 Bxe5 -+