🔵 UNITY OPEN GRAND PRIX TOURNAMENT
🔹 Saturday, December 8th, 2018
🔹 FINAL RESULTS

⚛️ FM Pedram Atoufi won the last Unity Chess Club's Open Grand Prix Tournament in 2018!!
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🏁✅ Celebrate Viswanathan Anand’s birthday by knowing his incredible achievements!

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It was a thriller, but Caruana-Nakamura has ended in a draw & Carlsen remains the world no. 1!

Results

🔹 10th London Classic 2018
🔹 PGN format

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Aronian,Levon (2780)
⚫️Kolosowski,Mateusz (2448)
🔸1-0

21...b5?? [Black has overlooked the opponent's next move. He should have developed his bishop in order to deal with the White's threat.]

[21...Bb7! 22.f3 a5 23.Bd4 Ba8 24.Nc2 Bc6 25.Na3 Nh5 26.Rc3 Bxd4+ 27.Qxd4 e5 28.Qe3 Ng7²]

22.e5! [△e×d6]

[22.c5!? e5 23.Ba5 △c6 23...Bf8 24.c6 Qa7 25.Bxd8 Rxd8 26.c7 Re8 27.Rc6+–]

22...b4 [Other moves didn't help too:]

[22...dxe5? 23.Qxd8 Rxd8 24.Rxd8+ Bf8 25.Bb4 △c×b5 25...Qc7 26.Rxf8+ Kg7 27.Rd1+–; 22...Nd7 23.exd6 Bxc3 24.Qxc3 bxc4 25.bxc4 △c5 25...Nc5 26.Ng4 e5 27.Nf6+ Kh8 28.Nxe8 Rxe8 29.Rb1+–]

23.Bxb4 dxe5 24.Qxd8 Qxb4 25.Qd2+– [25.Ng4!? Rxd8 26.Rxd8+ Bf8 27.Nxf6+ Kg7 28.Ne8+ Kh6 29.Rxc8 Qd2 30.Rf1+–] 1–0

⚪️#90 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Nanjo,Ryosuke (2324)
🔸Dragnev,Valentin (2508)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

36.Ra1! [Now that the black rook has placed in an unfavorable position, White chooses an effective file for his Rook.]

[36.Rc1 h6 37.Rc4 Kh8 38.Nh2 Bg5 39.Ng4 Bxe3 40.Nxe3 Nd4 41.Rc5 Rxc5 42.bxc5 Qc6 43.Qxc6 bxc6 44.Nc4 e4 45.Nd6²; 36.h6 Qc6 37.Qxc6 bxc6 38.Rc1 gxh6 39.Rxc6 Kf7 40.Rc4 h5 41.Ne1 Be7 42.Bd2 Kg6 43.Bc3 Bf6²]

36...Qe8 [36...Nc7 37.Bc5 h6 38.Ra7 b6 39.Be3+–]

37.Ra7 Qc8 [37...Qc8 38.h6 Nd4 39.hxg7 Kxg7 (39...Rxb4 40.Bh6! Bxg7 41.Ng5 Kf8 42.Qd5+–) 40.Nxd4 exd4 41.Bxd4 Bxd4 42.Qxd4+ Kg6 43.Qd3+ Qf5 44.Qxf5+ Kxf5 45.Ra5 Re5 46.g4+ Kf4 47.Rxe5 Kxe5 48.Kg3 Kf6 49.Kh4+–]

⚪️#90 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Pavlidis,Antonios (2552)
🔸Nedev,Trajko (2496)
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47.c5!? [47.Nc5+! Kd6 48.Na4 Ba5 (48...Bb8 49.Nb6 Kc5 50.Nxa8 Kxb4 51.Nb6 Ka5 52.Nd7 Ba7 53.Nxe5 Kxa6 54.Nd7 f4 55.c5 fxe3+ 56.Kxe3 Kb5 57.Kd4 Kc6 58.Ne5+ Kb5 59.Nd3+–) 49.Nd5 Bc6 50.a7 Bb7 51.e4 f4 (51...fxe4 52.Ke3 Kc6 53.Kxe4 Kd6 54.Kd3 Kc6 55.g3 Ba8 56.Ke4 Kd6 57.g4 Bd8 58.c5+ Ke6 59.Nac3 Be7 60.Kd3 Bxc5 61.Nc7+ Kd7 62.Nxa8 Bxa7 63.Ke4 Kc6 64.Nd5 Bd4 65.g5+–) ; 47.Nd5 Kc6 48.Nf6 Kb6 49.Nxh7 Kxa6 50.Nc5+ Ka5 51.Ne6 Bd6 52.Nhf8 Kb4 53.Nxg6 Kxc4 54.h4 Kd5 55.Ng7 Ke4 56.Ne8 Bc5 57.Nf6+ Kd3 58.Nxe5+ Kd2 59.Nh5 Bxe3+ 60.Kg3 Kc3 61.Nf4 Kd4 62.Nf7 Bd2 63.h5±]

47...Bb8 48.e4 fxe4 49.Ke3 Ba7 50.Nd5 Kc6 51.Nf6 Kb5 52.Nxe4 Kxa6 53.Nbd6 Ka5 54.Nc8 Bb8 55.g3 Kb4 56.Ncd6 Ba7 57.Nf7 Bxc5+ 58.Nxc5 Kxc5 59.Nxe5 Kd6 60.Nf7+ Ke7 61.Ng5 h6 62.Nh3 Kf6 63.Nf2 Kf5 64.Kd3 Bg2 65.Kd4 Bf3 ½–½

⚪️#91 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Munkhgal,Gombosuren (2452)
🔸Chipanga,Chiletso (2153)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 91
public poll

A) R×c6 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 92%
@kimche, @persepolis62, Seyed Hossein Ali, @hoseini139562, Jayden, Vincent, @Omid_kh7225, @h_a_d_I_1169, hamid, @RichardPeng, @WataxPin, Michael

C) Ra3 – 1
👍 8%
@Sophia_Peng

B) Ra1
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚪️#91 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Amin,Bassem (2686)
🔸Flores,Diego (2621)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 91
public poll

B) Qe7 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 47%
@Arminya66, @hoseini139562, @h_a_d_I_1169, admin, @RichardPeng, @WataxPin, @arash22_d

C) Kh1 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
Seyed Hossein Ali, Max, Jayden, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng, Michael

A) Kh2 – 2
👍👍 13%
Gholamreza, رامتین

👥 15 people voted so far.

🔴 Today is birthday of Zhao Jun!!
♦️ Chinese chess grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐
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🔸 Bobby Fischer
🔸 Eleventh World Chess Champion
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