Short lost today against Aronian. Last night when he found out his next rival was Aronin, he wrote:

Has Grischuk fallen asleep?!

Kosteniuk and her attractive blouse!

Hectic day of Alina L'Ami while she doesn't play and is standbye!

🔸European Club Cup 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Fedoseev,Vladimir3 (2713)
⚫️Brunner,Lucas (2457)
🔸1-0

27...Qc8? [A premature counterattack.]

[The correct defence would be 27...Rc4! 28.Bxe5+ Ka8! 29.Qd2 fxe5 30.Rxe5 Qh1+ 31.Qe1 Qxe1+ 32.Rxe1 Rc6 33.Rh1 Kb8 34.Rh7 Rc7 35.f4 Re7=]

28.Bxe5+ fxe5 29.Qxe5+ Ka8 30.c3! d4 31.Qxd4 Rxg5 32.Rxe6! [Fedoseev exploits the overload with a back rank combination.]

32...a5 33.Rd6 Qc5 34.Kd2 Qxd4+ 35.Rxd4 Kb8 36.Rd7 Ka7 37.Ke3 Kb6 38.f4 Rb5? [Black should have kept his g-pawn to retain some drawing chances.]

39.Rxg7 Rxb2 40.f5 [White wins the pawn race.]

40...Rc2 41.f6 Rxc3+ 42.Ke4 Rc1 43.Rg3 Rc8 44.Rb3+ Ka6 45.a4 b5 46.Rxb5 Rc4+ 47.Ke5 Rxa4 48.Rb8 1–0

⚫️#44 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Batchuluun,Tsegmed (2570)
🔸Bacallao Alonso,Yusnel (2588)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

40...Nc3! [Transferring the knight to e4 and taking part in the action.]

[40...c5!? 41.g5 (41.Nxc5 Nc3 42.Rb2 Rh6+ 43.Kg3 Ne2+ 44.Rbxe2 fxe2 45.Rxe2–+) 41...c4 42.Nc5 c3; 40...a5 41.Kh4 Rg7 42.Rxg7+ Kxg7 43.Ra1 Ra8 44.Nc5 Kf6 45.Kg3 Ke5 46.Kxf3 Ra7 47.g5 Kf5µ]

41.Rbe1 Ne4 [41...Rh6+! 42.Kg3 Ne2+ 43.R1xe2 fxe2 44.Rxe2 a5–+]

42.Re5 Rh6+ 43.Rh5 Rxh5+ 44.gxh5 c5 45.Rf1 c4 46.Nb4 d4 47.Re1 Re8 48.Rc1 d3 [White can no longer resist the black pawns.] 0–1