⚫️#49 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Belouadah,Saad (2413)
🔸Bauer,Christian (2629)
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17...Nxd5! [The correct exchange to seize an active kingside pawn majority.]

[17...Bxd5 18.exd5 Nd6 19.Re1 Nef5 20.Bd2 e4 21.Nh2 b5 22.g4 Nh4 23.Bf4 a5 24.Bg3 g5 25.Rac1 b4 26.a4 Rab8 27.cxb4 Rxb4 28.b3 Ne8 (28...Ng6 29.Rxc7 Nf4 30.h4 (30.Nf1) 30...Nxd5 31.Rc6 Ne8=) 29.Rc4 (29.Rc5 Bd4 30.Rxa5 Bb6 31.Ra6 Rxd5³) 29...Rxd5 30.Rxb4 axb4 31.Bb1 Nd6 32.Bxe4 Nxe4 33.Rxe4 Rd1+ 34.Nf1 c5 35.Rc4 Nf3+ 36.Kg2 Ne1+ 37.Kg1 Bd4=; 17...a5 18.c4 f5 19.Nxe7 Kxe7 20.exf5 gxf5 21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Re1 Bxf3 23.gxf3 Kf8=]

18.exd5 [18.Bxd5 Bxd5 19.Rxd5 Rxd5 20.exd5 f5 21.g3 g5³]

18...Nd6 [18...a5!? 19.Rac1 f5³]

19.c4 Nf5 20.Rac1 e4 21.Nd4 Nxe3 22.fxe3 Be5 23.Bb1 Re8 24.Bxe4 Bf6 25.Bf3 Rxe3 26.c5?? [A fatal blunder.]

[26.Kf2=]

26...bxc5 27.Rxc5?? [27.Ne2 Bxb2 28.Rxc5]

27...Re1+! [27...Re1+ 28.Rxe1 Bxd4+ 29.Kf1 Bxc5–+] 0–1

⚫️#49 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Picado,Jorge (2143)
🔸Petriashvili,Nikoloz (2343)
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59...Kxh4?? [59...Kf6! 60.Bg8 (60.Bxc4?? Ne5+ 61.Kxf4 Nxc4) 60...Nc5 61.Bxc4 Nxa4 62.Kxf4 Nxc3 63.Ke3 a4 64.Kd4 Ne4 65.Ba2 Kg6 66.Be6 a3 67.Bg8 Nd6 68.Kc3 f4 69.Kb3 Kh5 70.Kxa3 Kxh4 71.Bh7 f3 72.Kb2 f2 73.Bd3 Kg3 74.Kc3 Kf3 75.Bf1 Ke3 76.Bh3 Ke2 77.Kb4 f1Q 78.Bxf1+ Kxf1–+; 59...Kh5 60.Bxf5 Kxh4 61.Bh7 Kh3 62.Bg8 Kh2 63.Be6 Kg1 64.Bg8 Nb2 65.Kxf4 Kf2 66.Ke4 Ke2 67.Kd4 Kd2 68.Bxc4 Nxa4–+]

60.Bxf5 Nc5 61.Kxf4 Nxa4 62.Be6 Nb2 63.Ke3 a4 [63...Kg3 64.Kd2 Kf4 65.Kc2 Ke5 66.Bf7 Na4 67.Bxc4 Nc5³]

64.Kd2 a3 65.Kc2?? [65.Kc1! Nd1 66.Bxc4 Nxc3 67.Kc2 a2 68.Kb2 Kg5 69.Bxa2 Nxa2 70.Kxa2=]

65...Kg5?? [65...Nd1! 66.Kb1 Nxc3+ 67.Kc2 Nd1! 68.Kb1 Ne3 69.Ka2 Kg5 70.Kxa3 Kf6 71.Bd7 Ke5 72.Kb4 Kd4–+]

66.Kb1 Kf6 67.Bg8 Nd1 68.Ka2 Nxc3+ 69.Kxa3 Ke5 70.Bxc4 Kd4 71.Kb4 Ne4 72.Bf1 Nc5 73.Bc4 Nb7 74.Be2 Nd6 75.Bf1 Nf5 76.Bc4 Ne3 77.Bg8 Nc2+ 78.Kb3 Ne1 79.Kb4 Nd3+ 80.Kb3 Kc5 81.Be6 Ne5 82.Ka4 Nd3 83.Kb3 Nf2 84.Bf5 Kxb5 85.Kc2 Kc4 86.Be6+ Kb4 87.Bf5 Nh1 88.Kd3 Ng3 89.Bg6 Kb3 90.Ke3 Kc3 91.Kf2 ½–½

⚪️#50 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Yu,Yangyi (2765)
🔸Vera Siguenas,Deivy (2494)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 50
public poll

C)26.Rf7 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
Hajjy, @Squirtle1, @YaminiG, @A_Wild_Richard, @Ndtaker, Michael

A)26.b4 – 2
👍👍 25%
Alexander, Mahathi

B)26.Bb4
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#50 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Muhseen,Abdullah Mohammed (2220)
🔸Khalid,El Amin (2054)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 50
public poll

B)53...Rc1+ – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
Hajjy, Jayden, @YaminiG, @RichardPeng, Michael

C)53...Rxh2+ – 2
👍👍👍 29%
Alexander, @Ndtaker

A)53...Re1+
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

Botvinnik vs. Bronstein | World Chess Championship 1951.

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🔸 World Championship 1951, Botvinnik - Bronstein
🔸 PGN format

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"Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board."

🔸 Mark Dvoretsky (2014) "For Friends and Colleagues: Volume 2"

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A simul given by Reuben Fine at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on May 3, 1942. His final score after 9 hrs. 25 mins. was +87=17-6.

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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Nikitin (coach Garry Kasparov for many years) with Garry and Klara Kasparov.

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🔹 Vasily Smyslov
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 7th World Chess Champion (1957 -1958)
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✅ About Smyslov

🔹 Vasily Smyslov
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 7th World Chess Champion (1957 -1958)

🔰 Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions.
Smyslov twice tied for first place at the Soviet Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.

🔰Smyslov was the 7th World Chess Champion in 1957-8. He was a top 10 player between 1940 and 1970, the top player 1953-1958 and remained in the top 100 until 1990 when he was 70. A reknowned positional and endgame player he nevertheless played all sorts of positions throughout his career.

🔘 Full name: Vasily Vasilyevich (Vasilievich) Smyslov
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
🔘 Born: 24 March 1921
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: 27 March 2010 (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 World Champion: 1957–58
🔘 Peak rating: 2620 (July 1971)

♦️ A memorable game by Smyslov against Zoltan Ribli in London 1983 which named "Disposing the Tarrasch" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Vasily Smyslov vs Zoltan Ribli
▪️ Candidates Semi-final (1983), London ENG, rd 5, Nov-30
▪️ Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Main Line (D42)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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