Semi Final Round 1

Ju Wenjun, the only winner of the day

🔹 World Chess Championship in London 2018
🔹 Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana -R5
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🔹 Women's World Championship KO 2018-R5
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Congratulations to the winners of the #WinterChessClassic Group A and B, Yuniesky Quezada Pérez and Zaven Andriasian, respectively!

PAIRINGS & RESULTS | A:
https://www.uschesschamps.com/2018-winter-chess-classic/pairings-results-a

PAIRINGS & RESULTS | B:
https://www.uschesschamps.com/2018-winter-chess-classic/pairings-results-b

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🔹 St Louis Winter A 2018
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🔹 St Louis Winter B 2018
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GM Ivan Cheparinov (2711) takes a sole lead at the Tournament of Peace after 4 rounds.

#Tournament_of_Peace_2018
#Zagreb

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🔹 Tournament of Peace 2018
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🏁🏆Magnus will have the white pieces tomorrow in round 6 of the match. What’s your prediction? #CarlsenCaruana
anonymous poll

3️⃣ Draw – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 79%

1️⃣ Magnus will win – 2
👍 14%

2️⃣ Fabiano will win – 1
👍 7%

👥 14 people voted so far.

🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2780)
⚫️Tari,Aryan (2618)
🔸1-0

20.Nxe6! [Vachier finds an accurate way to win the weak d5–pawn.]

[20.Nfxd5? Nexd4 21.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 22.Rxe1 Kg7=]

20...Bxe6 [20...Rxe6?! 21.Bxd5 Re7 22.Bxf7+ Rxf7 23.d5 Rd7 24.Rad1±]

21.Rfe1! [Black now has no way to save the d5–pawn.]

21...Bf7 [21...Kg7 22.Nxd5 Bxd5 23.Rxe8 Qxe8 24.Bxd5 Rd8 25.Re1 Qd7 26.Bxc6 bxc6 27.Qc3±]

22.Rxe8+ [△N×d5]

22...Qxe8 23.Nxd5 Qd8 24.Ne3 Qxd4 25.Qxd4 Nxd4 26.Bxb7 Rd8 27.Rd1 Rd7 28.Bd5 Ne6 [28...Bxd5 29.Rxd4 Bc6 30.Rxd7 Bxd7±]

29.Kf1 Kf8 30.Bxe6 Rxd1+ 31.Nxd1 Bxe6± 1–0