🔹 Batumi Women's Chess Olympiad
- Round 8
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⚫️#21 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Al-Zendani Zendan (2301)
🔸Fressinet Laurent (2649)
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20...b4! [After 20...b4! the a2–pawn is a fixed weakness that can easily be attacked with Ra8.]

[20...Kb7 21.a3 Be5 22.c3 Rd3³; 20...c4 21.c3 Rhe8 22.g3=/+]

21.Bc1 Kb7 22.f4 Rhe8 23.Re1 Ra8 24.a3 bxa3 25.bxa3 Ra4 26.f5 Be5 27.Rg4 Re7 28.Kf2 Rd7 29.Re2 c4 30.Bf4 Bd4+ 31.Kg3 Rxa3+ 32.Kh4 Re7 33.Kh5 b5 34.Bg3 Ra2 35.e5 Bxe5 36.Rge4 Kc6 37.Kg6 Kd5 38.R4e3 c5 39.Rd2+ Kc6 40.Rde2 b4 0–1

⚪️#21 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Markoja Boris (2456)
🔸Gumpo Thabo (2059)
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46.gxf5! [46.g5 Kd8 47.Ra1 Bd7 48.h5 gxh5 49.Rh2 h6 50.gxh6 Rg6 51.Rxh5 Rh8 52.Rah1 Be8 53.R5h3 Rh7 54.Kf3 Ke7 55.Be2+–; 46.b5 cxb5 47.Nc3 fxg4 48.Nxb5+ Bxb5 49.Bxb5 h5 50.Ra2 Kb8 51.Rga1 Nc7 52.Bd3±]

46...exf5 47.b5! cxb5 48.Nc3 Bc6 49.Nxb5+ Bxb5 50.Bxb5 Rf7 [50...Rh8 51.Ra1 Rb8 52.Rga2 Rhc8 53.e6 Kd8 54.Bd7+–]

51.h5 Kd8 52.hxg6 hxg6 53.Rxg6 Rxg6 54.Rxg6 Nc7 55.Bd3 Ne8 56.Bc2 Rh7 57.Bxf5 1–0

⚪️#22 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Duda Jan-Krzysztof (2739)
🔸Reyes Najera Carlos A. (2149)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 22
public poll

A) Nb5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
@YaminiG, @RichardPeng, @Henrycaba, مجید, Michael, Hansika

C) Qh4 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 33%
Vincent, @Somebody_Sophia, Rachel, Alan

B) Rd3 – 2
👍👍 17%
@MerissaWongso, Zhenrui

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚫️#22 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Duda Jan-Krzysztof (2739)
🔸Reyes Najera Carlos A. (2149)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 22
public poll

A) 60...Bd8 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%
Vincent, @YaminiG, @MerissaWongso, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, مجید, Hansika

B) 60...Nxh5 – 1
👍 13%
Rachel

C) 60...Kd6
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

U.S. Team with Fritz Brieger at the 1937 Stockholm, Sweden, Chess Olympiad
L to R: Samuel Reshevsky, Al Horowitz, Fritz Brieger (Sponsor), Frank Marshall, Reuben Fine, and Isaac Kashdan.

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1937 marked both the last year the United States would win team gold in the 1930s and the debut of former chess prodigy Grandmaster (GM) Samuel Reshevsky in the competition. Reshevsky, who immigrated to the United States from Poland in 1920, had only returned to competitive chess in 1933 after leaving it to focus on his education. In his childhood, he had earned fame across the country for his performance in simultaneous matches, emerging victorious against opponents who were much older than him. One of his early supporters, GM Frank Marshall, was also on the team. Marshall and International Master Al Horowitz ended the competition undefeated. Unfortunately, this would be the last time the United States participated in the competition before World War II. In 1939, Buenos Aires, Argentina, hosted the Chess Olympiad, the American team was not able to attend due to funding issues. The competition would then go on hiatus during the entirety of World War II, and the United States would not win team gold again until 1976.

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Pia Cramling (Sweden) Competing at the 1984 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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Pia Cramling won the individual gold medal on Board One in the 1984 Thessaloniki, Greece, Women’s Chess Olympiad. Like her contemporary, Judit Polgar, Cramling would later begin to represent her country in the open section of the Chess Olympiads (1990, 1992, 1996, and 2000).

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U.S. Team Competes against the Soviet Team at the 1988 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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GM Yasser Seirawan vs. GM Garry Kasparov as GM Anatoly Karpov Watches at the 1988 Thessaloniki, Greece, Chess Olympiad.

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♦️ Today is birthday of Ye Rongguang!!
The first Chinese chess grandmaster

❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday Dear Master Rongguang 👏👏👏👏
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