🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Wallace,John Paul (2377)
⚫️Melkumyan,Hrant (2660)
🔸1-0

31...Nxd3! 32.Rxd3 Qg7‚ [Black puts more pressure on White's kingside. The pin on g2 is very annoying for White.]

33.Rxd6 [33.Rxe6 Bxf3 34.Qe1 Bc6³ △R×f2]

33...Bxf3! [A powerful blow that destroys White's defence.]

34.Qd4?! [34.gxf3?? gxf3+ 35.Kh1 Qg2#; ¹34.Qd2 Bxg2 35.Rd8! g3 36.Rxf8+ Rxf8 37.Nh1 gxh2+ 38.Kxh2 Bf3 39.Rg1 Bg4³]

34...e5! 35.Qb6 Bc6! [△R×f2]

36.Rd2 g3 37.hxg3 [37.Nd1 Rf2 38.Nxf2 gxh2+ △Q×g2 39.Kf1 Qxg2+ 40.Ke2 Qf3+ 41.Kf1 h1Q#–+]

37...Qxg3 0–1

⚪️#86 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Blagojevic,Dragisa (2476)
🔸Berend,Fred (2358)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

24.cxd6?! [Although after this move White still has some advantage, the following variation would have been better. Actually, White should have kept the tension and increased his pressure on Black's camp.]

[24.Ne3! Nf7 25.Nc4 dxc5 26.Rxd8+ Nxd8 27.Qxe5 Be6 28.Nd6 Nf7 29.Nxf7 Rxf7 30.Rd6 Bxa2 31.Qxc5 a6 32.f4 Rf6 (32...Be6 33.f5±) 33.Rxc6±; 24.Rxd6 Rdxd6 25.cxd6 Rxd6 26.Qc5 Nf7 27.Rxd6 Nxd6 28.Ne3 Kf7 29.Qxa7±]

24...Rfxd6 25.Rxd6 Rxd6 26.Qa3 Nf7 27.Rxd6 Nxd6 28.Qxa7 Be6 29.b3 Kf7 30.Qc5 Kf6 31.f4 Nf7 32.Qf2 Qb4 33.Ne3 Ke7 34.f5 Bd7 35.h4 Qd4 36.Kh2 Nd6 37.Qf3 Qd2? 38.Ng4 Nf7 39.f6+ Kf8 40.fxg7+ Kxg7 41.Qf6+ Kg8 42.Nxe5 Nxe5 43.Qxe5 Qxa2 [43...Kf7 44.Qc7 Ke7 45.a4 Qb4 46.e5+–]

44.Qe7 Qd2 45.e5 Bg4 46.e6 Bh5 47.Qxb7 Be8 48.Qe7 Bg6 49.Qd7 Qe3 50.e7 Bf7 51.Bxc6 Qe2+ 52.Bg2 Kg7 53.b4 Kf6 54.b5 Qxe7 55.Qxe7+ Kxe7 56.b6 Kd6 57.Kg1 Bc4 58.Kf2 Ba6 59.Ke3 h6 60.Kf4 1–0

⚫️#86 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Mehmeti,Dritan (2391)
🔸Mushore,Emarald Takudzwa (2152)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

20...Rg5! [20...Kg7 21.Qb5 Rgd8 22.Rb4 Qf3 23.Qa5 h5 24.Rf4 Rd1+ 25.Nxd1 Qxd1+ 26.Kg2 Rxb7 27.Qa4 Qd5+ 28.Qe4 Qxe4+ 29.Rxe4µ; 20...f5 21.Nc2 Qc6 22.Nd4 Qd5 23.Ne2 f6 24.a4 Qe4 25.a5 h5 26.Nc3 Qf3 27.Qb3 h4 28.Nd5 Qxb3 29.Rxb3 hxg3 30.fxg3 Kf7 31.a6 Rgd8]

21.Qc1 Rc5 [21...Rc5! 22.Qb2 (22.Qxc5 Qxb1+ 23.Nf1 Rxb7–+) 22...Rc7–+] 0–1

⚪️#87 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Linster,Philippe (2273)
🔸Kosic,Dragan (2465)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 87
public poll

A) Rcd1 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
@Empyriumm, Jonas, Nikhil, @hoseini139562, @RichardPeng, Michael, Zhenrui

B) Q×e5 – 3
👍👍👍 27%
@M_L_110213, @Sophia_Peng, @WataxPin

Red1 – 1
👍 9%
@Zamani9899

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚪️#87 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Sulava,Nenad (2437)
🔸Al-Zendani,Zendan (2301)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 87
public poll

C) Ke3 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 81%
@Empyriumm, @M_L_110213, Jonas, @Zamani9899, Nikhil, @AlirezaRahmani_1396, @hoseini139562, @Mahernoz, @RichardPeng, @WataxPin, Adith, Michael, Zhenrui

B) Ke2 – 2
👍 13%
milad, @Sophia_Peng

A) Kg2 – 1
👍 6%
@alimahdavieh

👥 16 people voted so far.

Jean-Henri Marlet's depiction of the 19th game in a chess match between Howard Staunton and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant which took place on 16 December 1843.

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Future grandmaster Vladimir Akopian (born 7th December, 1971) with his then-trainer, Soviet Master Oleg Dementiev. Akopian was born in Baku, but moved to Yerevan with his family in 1985, when he began studying with Dementiev.

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Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi; in the background is ex-World Champion Tigran Petrosian. USSR, early 1970s.

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"A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position."

🔸 Bent Larsen

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🔴 Today is birthday of Robert Andrew Hungaski!!
♦️ American chess grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐

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#Portisch

🔸 Lajos Portisch
🔸Hungarian chess grandmaster
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✴️ About Portisch

🔸 Lajos Portisch
🔸 Hungarian chess grandmaster
🔸 Chess writer

🔰 Lajos Portisch is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".
🔹 Born: April 4, 1937 (age 81 years), Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
🔹 Title: Grandmaster (1961)
🔹 FIDE rating: 2467
🔹 Peak rating: 2655 (January 1980)
🔹 Books: My Secrets in the Ruy Lopez, Six Hundred Endings

🔰 Lajos Portisch was born in Zalaegerszeg. He won the Hungarian Championship for the first time in 1958, and in 1961 he became a grandmaster. In 1960, he qualified from the Madrid Zonal for the Stockholm Interzonal (1962), where he came equal 9th. In 1963, he won the Halle Zonal ahead of Borislav Ivkov and Bent Larsen and advanced to the Amsterdam Interzonal (1964) where he came 8th. Over the course of his career he qualified for the Candidates eight times and played for his country in nineteen consecutive Olympiads (1956-1996). He had another fine tournament finish with an equal 2nd with Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian after Anatoly Karpov at Milan (1975). At the Biel Interzonal (1976), he qualified again with an equal 2nd after Bent Larsen, and went on to win the Portisch - Larsen Candidates Quarterfinal (1977) match, but then lost the Spassky - Portisch Candidates Semifinal (1977) match. He led the Hungarian team to an unprecedented 1st place finish ahead of the Soviets at the Buenos Aires Olympiad 1978.
He still lives in Hungary, and is still active in local tournaments.

♦️ A memorable and excellent tactical game by Portisch👇
🔸 Lajos Portisch vs Nick de Firmian
🔸 Reggio Emilia (1989/90), Reggio Emilia ITA, rd 8, Jan-05
🔸 Queen's Indian Defense: Spassky System (E14)

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