WORLD YOUTH UNDER-16 CHESS OLYMPIAD-2018
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🔸Round 4
⚪️Melkumyan,Hrant (2660)
⚫️Kashlinskaya,Alina (2447)
🔸1-0

20.a3! [The black knight has no proper square.]

20...Rxd1+ [The black knight has no proper square. In order to avoid loss of a pawn, Kashlinskaya decides to give up the open d-file.]

[¹20...Nd5 21.Nxd5 Bxd5 22.Bxd5 exd5 23.Rxd5 Rxd5 24.Qxd5±]

21.Rxd1 Bxg2 22.Kxg2 Nc6 23.Rd7! Na5 24.Qb5 Bf8 25.Qxa6 bxa6 26.Rxa7± [All White's pieces are working together to dominate the board.] 1–0

⚪️#80 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Vera Siguenas,Deivy (2494)
🔸Tate,Alan (2345)
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31.d6! [Opening the a2–g8 diagonal and preparing for the bishop-queen battery. The Black pieces are uncoordinated and cannot do anything. There is also a chance that the black queen may be trapped.]

[31.Qc6? Qb6+ 32.Qxb6 cxb6 33.Nc2 Re8 34.Nd4 Bc5 35.Kh2 Re3„; 31.Qd4+ Rg7 32.Qa7 Bxa3 33.d6 h5 34.Qa8+ Kh7 35.d7 Be7=]

31...cxd6 [31...Re8 32.Nc4 cxd6 33.Qd4+ Bg7 34.Qxg7+ Kxg7 35.Nxa5+–]

32.Qd5 Qb6+ 33.Kh2 Rg7 34.Qa8 [And now the d6 pawn blocks the black queen's path to defend the bishop on f8.]

34...Rg8 35.Bxg8 Kxg8 36.Qf3 [36.Nc2! Nf5 37.Nd4+–]

36...Nf5 37.Nc2 Bg7 38.Nb4 Be5 39.Nd3 Ne3 40.Nxe5 dxe5 [40...Nxd1 41.Qa8+ Kg7 42.Nd7 Kf7 (42...Qe3 43.Qf8#) 43.Nxb6]

41.Rd7 e4 42.Qxf4 1–0

⚪️#80 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Andyka,Pitra (2274)
🔸Atabayev,Yusup (2411)
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