⚪️#76 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tomczak,Jacek (2614)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2779)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

25...Qa2? [In this complicated position, the ex-world champion Kramnik made a decisive mistake.]

[He could have seized a slight advantage with 25...Bd4! Attacking the e5–pawn and preparing ...c5. 26.Qc2 Rg6 27.Qf5 Re8 28.Qh3 Rxg7 29.Bf4 (29.Bf6 Qf3 30.Rh2 Rxg3+ 31.Qxg3+ Qxg3+ 32.Rg2 Bxf2+ 33.Kf1 Kf8 34.Rxg3 Bxg3µ) 29...c5 30.Qg2 Qb3 31.Qc6 Rb8 (31...Rxg3+ 32.Kh2! Bxf2 33.Qxe8+ Kg7 34.Qc6 Rg6 35.Rcg1 (35.Qxc7?? Qf3–+) ) 32.Rh6 Qb6 33.Qh1 Qb2 34.Rf1 Qb7 35.Qxb7 Rxb7³; 25...Rg6 26.Bxd8 Bd4 (26...Qxd8 27.Qf3+–) 27.Rd1 Bxc3 28.Rxd5 cxd5 29.Bf6 Bd2 30.Kg2 Bg5 31.Bxg5 Rxg5 32.f4 Rxg7 33.Rc1 f6 34.exf6 Rf7 35.Rc6 h5 36.Kf3 Kh7 37.Ke3 Kg6 38.Kd4 Kf5 39.Kxd5 Rxf6 40.Rxf6+ Kxf6 41.Kc6 Kf5 42.Kxc7 Kg4 43.a4 Kxg3 44.f5 h4 45.f6 h3 46.f7 h2 47.f8Q h1Q 48.Qb4±]

26.Rh2 Rd5 [26...Rd4 27.Qf3 Qd5 28.Qh5 Qe4 29.Bf6 Rd5±]

27.Qb4 c5 28.Qh4 h6 29.Bxh6 Qb3 30.Bd2 Kxg7 31.Qh8+ Kg6 32.Qh7# 1–0

⚪️#76 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Volodin,Aleksandr (2457)
🔸Garcia,Jan Emmanuel (2439)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

68.d6! [68.Kd3 Bc5 69.Be6 Bb4 70.Bh3 Bd6 71.Ke3 Bc5+ 72.Ke4 Bb4 73.Bc8 Be7 74.Be6 Bc5 75.Kf3 Bd6; 68.Bh3 Bc5 69.Be6 Ba7 70.Kd3 Bc5 71.Bg4 Bb4 72.Ke4 Bd6=]

68...Kf7 69.Bd7 Bd4 70.Kd5 Bc3 71.Bb5 e4 72.Kc6 Be5 73.Kb6 [73.Bc4+ Ke8 74.Kc7 Bf6 (74...e3 75.b4 axb4 76.a5+–) 75.d7+ Kf8 76.d8Q++–]

73...Bxd6 74.Kxa5 Ke7 75.Bc6 Kd8 76.b4 Kc7 77.b5 e3 78.Bf3 Kb8 79.b6 Be5 80.Kb5 Bd4 81.a5 e2 82.Bxe2 1–0

⚪️#77 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Anton Guijarro,David (2639)
🔸Popovic,Dusan (2517)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 77
public poll

A)B×c5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
@shahrook, Seyed Hossein Ali, Nikhil, @abas2048, @RichardPeng

B)h5 – 2
👍👍👍 29%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @Sophia_Peng

C)Be2
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

⚪️#77 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Tiviakov,Sergei (2604)
🔸Kabilov,Amin (2178)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 77
public poll

C)a4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
@shahrook, @mahyarebrahimi1983, @Gbdzdh_mhmd, Seyed Hossein Ali, Nikhil, @abas2048, @Gm_Mr, @kohyai

B)g3 – 2
👍👍 18%
@Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng

A)Bc1 – 1
👍 9%
@Kasra_Germany

👥 11 people voted so far.

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Yes
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