⚫️#32 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Yakubboev,Nodirbek (2521)
🔸Ponomariov,Ruslan (2681)
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34...dxc4! [34...Ra6 35.Bc1 dxc4 36.bxc4 Kg6 37.Kg2 Kf5 38.Kf3 g5µ; 34...Re6? 35.Rxe6 Kxe6 36.Kg2 dxc4 37.bxc4 Kf5 38.Kf3 g5 39.Be3 Be7 40.Bf2 Bd6 41.Bg1 a6 42.a4 Bf8 43.Bf2 Be7 44.h3 g4+ 45.hxg4+ hxg4+ 46.Ke3 Bf8 47.Kd3=]

35.bxc4 Ra6 [35...Rb6! 36.Rf2 Ke6 37.Be3 Bd4 38.Bxd4 cxd4 39.Kg2 Ke5 40.Re2+ Kd6 41.Kf3 Kc5 42.Re7 Kxc4 43.Rxa7 g6 44.a4 Kc3 45.Rc7+ Kd3 46.a5 Rf6+ 47.Kg2 Ra6 48.Rc5 Kd2–+]

36.Bc1 Rd6?! [36...Kg6 37.Kg2 Kf5=/+]

37.Kg2 Rd3 38.Be3 Be7 [38...Bd4]

39.Kf3 Rc3 40.Ke4 Rxc4+ 41.Kd5 Rc3 42.Bf4 Rd3+ 43.Kc4 Rd4+ 44.Kb5 Rb4+ 45.Kc6 Rb6+ 46.Kd5 Ra6 47.Be5 g5 48.Rb2 Kg6 49.Rb7 Bf6 50.Bxf6 Kxf6 51.Rb2 Kf5 52.Kxc5 Kg4 53.Kd5 Ra3 54.Ke6 a5 55.Rc2 h4 56.gxh4 gxh4 57.Ke5 a4 58.Ke4 Kh3 59.Kf4 Rd3 60.Ke4 Rd1 61.Ke3 Rf1 62.Rc4 a3 63.Ra4 Rf8 64.Ke2 Rh8 65.Rxa3+ Kxh2 66.Kf2 Rf8+ 67.Rf3 Ra8 68.Kf1 Rxa2 69.Rf2+ Rxf2+ 70.Kxf2 h3 71.Kf1 Kg3 72.Kg1 h2+ 73.Kh1 Kh3 ½–½

⚪️#33 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Lopez Martinez,Josep Manuel (2581)
🔸Guzman,Christopher (2283)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 33
public poll

B) 30.Bb4 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%
@Afshin3333, Vincent, @YaminiG, @MerissaWongso, Saghana, @AryanLeekha

A) 30.h4 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 40%
Alexander, @Sophia_Peng, Pranav Eswar, Zhenrui

C) 30.Be1
▫️ 0%

👥 10 people voted so far.

⚪️#33 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Georgiadis,Nico (2522)
🔸Draskovic,Luka (2449)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 33
public poll

A) 40.Rh6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
España 🇪🇸, @Afshin3333, Vincent, @YaminiG, Srikar, Diego, Zhenrui

C) 40.Bf5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍 42%
@MerissaWongso, Alexander, Saghana, @Sophia_Peng, @AryanLeekha

B) 40.Rh1
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

♦️ Today is birthday of Marie Sebag!!
French chess grandmaster

❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday Dear Marie !! 👏👏👏👏
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#Short

🔸 Nigel Short
🔸 English chess grandmaster, Chess writer
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#Short

🔸 Nigel Short
🔸 English chess grandmaster, Chess writer

🔰 Nigel David Short is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from January 1988 to July 1989.
In 1993 Nigel Short became the first English player to play a World Chess Championship match, when he qualified to play Garry Kasparov in the World Chess Championship 1993 in London (Kasparov won, 12½ to 7½). As of February 2018, he is the oldest player ranked among FIDE's top 100 players and is ranked No. 65.

🔰 Chess achievements of Nigel Short:👇
IM (1979)
GM (1984)
British Champion (1984, 1987, 1998)
English Champion (1991)
European Union Champion (2001)
Commonwealth Champion (2006 & 2008)
Candidate (1985, 1988, 1991, 1994 (PCA))
World Championship Challenger (PCA) (1993)

🔘 Full name Nigel David Short
🔘 Country England
🔘 Born 1 June 1965 (age 53)
🔺 Leigh, England
🔘 Title Grandmaster (1984)
🔘 FIDE rating 2652 (October 2018)
🔺 (No. 55 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
🔘 Peak rating 2712 (April 2004)


♦️ A memorable game by Nigel Short 👇👇
▪️ Nigel Short vs Jan Timman
▪️ Interpolis 15th (1991), Tilburg NED, rd 4, Oct-21
▪️ Alekhine Defense: Modern. Alburt Variation (B04)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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▪️ Nigel Short vs Jan Timman
▪️ Interpolis 15th Tilburg 1991
🔸 PGN format
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Frans Kuijpers (Netherlands) faces Lev Polugaevsky (USSR). Next to Polugaevsky, his compatriot Ivo Nei is in play v. Moshe Czerniak Round 8, Hoogovens tournament at Bewerwijk, Jan 1966.

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White to move and win. From Alexander Khalifman vs Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Minsk, 1985.

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"When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'."

🔸 David Bronstein

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