43.h4! [43.Rg6 Kf5 44.Rg8 Rxb4 45.Ra8 Kf4 46.Rf8+ Ke5 47.Ra8 Kf4 48.Rxa6 Rb3 49.Rxe6 Rxf3+=; 43.Rh7 Rxb4 44.Ra7 Kf4 45.Rf7+ Ke5 46.Ra7=]

43...gxh4 44.Rxh4 Kd5 45.Rh5+ Kd4 46.Rc5 Rxb4 47.Rc6 Ra4 48.Rxa6 e5 49.Ra8 e4 50.f4 Ra2+ 51.Kg3 e3 52.f5 Ra1 53.Re8 Rxa5 54.Kf4 Rxf5+?? [54...Ra3 55.Re7 Rb3 56.Re4+ Kd5 57.Re5+ (57.f6 Rb6 58.f7 Rf6+ 59.Kxe3 Rxf7=; 57.Rxe3 Rxe3 58.Kxe3 Ke5 59.Kf3 Kxf5) 57...Kd4 58.Re6 Kd5 59.Re4 Ra3=; 54...Ra1 55.Re4+ Kd5 56.Rxe3 Rf1+ 57.Kg5 Rg1+ 58.Kh6 Rh1+ 59.Kg7 Rg1+ 60.Kf7+–]

55.Kxf5 Kd3 56.Kf4 1–0

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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 36
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A) 46.gxf5 – 9
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B) 46.g5 – 2
👍👍 18%
@A_Wild_Richard, Mahathi

C) 46.Ra1
▫️ 0%

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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 36
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A) 30.gxh6 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 38%
Jonas, @Afshin3333, @rssh666, فیروزه, @A_Wild_Richard

C) 30.f6+ – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 38%
Vincent, Nagaprasad, Atharva, Michael, Alan

B)30.Rxh6 – 3
👍👍👍👍 23%
@Sophia_Giraffe, @Henrycaba, Mahathi

👥 13 people voted so far.

♦️ Today is birthday of Olexandr Bortnyk!!
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❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday !! 👏👏👏👏
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◼️ Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Leningrad 1971

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🔷 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Leningrad 1971
🔹 USSR
🔹 September 15 - October 18
🔹 CHAMPION: Vladimir Andreyevich Savon |15/21(+9 -0 =12) |

🔰 The 39th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XI event held in the city of Leningrad from September 15 to October 18, 1971. Thirteen of the USSR's strongest masters and grandmasters qualified for the round robin tournament from the four Soviet semi-finals held earlier in the year.

🔹 The qualifiers were (with ELO):
🔅 Anatoly Lein (2510),
🔅 Vladimir Savon (2570)
🔅 Leonid Shamkovich (2520)
🔺From Ivano-Frankovsk
🔅 Nikolai Krogius (2575),
🔅 Karen Grigorian (2430)
🔅 Albert Kapengut (2450)
🔺 From Perm
🔅 Anatoli Karpov (2540),
🔅 Rafael Vaganian (2510),
🔅 Roman Dzindzichashvili (2480)
🔅 Vladimir Karasev
🔺 From Daugavpils;
🔅 Yuri Nikolaevsky (2490),
🔅 Igor Platonov (2470),
🔅 Mark Tseitlin
🔺From Novosibirsk

🔹 Nine of the Soviet Union's very best players were also invited to complete the field, including (in order of ELO):
🔅 Lev Polugaevsky (2640),
🔅 Vasily Smyslov (2620),
🔅 Mikhail Tal (2620),
🔅 Efim Geller (2615),
🔅 Leonid Stein (2605),
🔅 Mark Taimanov (2600),
🔅 David Bronstein (2590),
🔅 Yuri Balashov (2570),
🔅 Vladimir Tukmakov (2565).

🔰 This edition of the championship was witness to an enormous upset as International Master Vladimir Savon, who was not even among the top rated grandmasters present, won clear first in a field that included two former world champions and five former Soviet champions.
Savon went undefeated and earned his crown with an impressive score of 15/21.

♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "Leningrad 1971" Games database by PGN format👇

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▪️ Leningrad 1971 Games database
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♦️ Review a brilliant tactical chess game from Leningrad 1971 chess tournament👇

▪️ Vladimir Savon vs Lev Polugaevsky
▪️ USSR Championship (1971), Leningrad URS, rd 3, Sep-17
▪️ Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Classical Variation (B84)
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At the Hoogovens tournament in Beverwijk, Jan 1965: L to R: Vladimir Bagirov, Yuri Balashov (then, at 15 years of age, the youngest Master of Sport in the Soviet Union) and Efim Geller.

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Karpov-Korchnoi: 40 years after: On October 17th, 1978, a battle of nerves, which lasted over four months and 32 games, ended in Baguio City. Details,..

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Nana Alexandria at Wijk aan Zee, 29th January 1970.

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🏁✅ Amazing!! This Carlsen vs Svidler game as known as the most beautiful endgame ever.

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🔸European Club Cup 2018
🔸Round 3
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⚫️Novik,Maxim (2461)
🔸1-0

30...Qc3? [In the opposite-colored bishop position, Black probably thought that he will be able to hold the game by exchanging the queens. But it would have been better to keep the position.]

[30...Ra8+/= △Qa7]

31.Qxc3! bxc3 32.Rc1 Rb8 33.Rxc3± Rb4 34.Rc7 [△Be6]

34...Kf8 35.Rc8+ Ke7 36.Ra8 a4 37.Rxa4 Rxa4 38.bxa4 Ke8 39.a5 Bd8 40.a6 Bb6 41.f4! f6 42.f5 Kf7 43.fxg6+ Kxg6 44.Bf5+ Kg7 45.Kf3 h6 46.Kg4 Bc5 47.Bd7 Kg6 48.Be8+ Kg7 49.Kf5 Kf8 50.Bh5 Ke7 51.Be2 Kf7 52.a4 Bb6 53.a5 Bc5 54.Bh5+ Ke7 55.Kg6 Be3 56.Be2 [The moral of the game is 'not all opposite colored bishop endgames are drawn!'] 1–0