🔵 Review our selected game from " Palma de Mallorca 1966 " which captured beauty game prize of the tournament!!

🔸 Heinz Lehmann vs Leonid Alexandrovich Shamkovich
🔸 Palma de Mallorca (1966), Palma ESP, rd 6, Dec-03
🔸 Modern Defense: Averbakh System. Kotov Variation (A42)
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♦️ "Palma de Mallorca 1966 Games Database"
♦️ PGN format
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🔹 10th London Classic 2018-Final
🔹 PGN format

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Gelfand,Boris (2701)
⚫️Christiansen,Johan-Sebastian (2541)
🔸1-0

32.Be6! [Now, Black is forced to give up at least an exchange.]

[32.Bf5?! Rh8 33.Rxh7+ Rxh7 34.Rxh7+ Kg8 35.Rh1 Rb4² △Rb2]

32...Rcxd4 [If 32...Rc3?? , then 33.Nf5+! Kf8 34.Rxh7 fxe6 35.Rh8+ Kf7 36.R1h7+ Kg6 37.Ne7+ Kg5 38.Rg7+ Ng6 39.Rxg6#]

33.exd4 Rxd4 34.Rxh7+ Kf8 35.Bf5 Rd2 36.Rc1! [Threatening checkmate and preparing to exchange the opponent's rook.]

36...Ke7 [36...Rxa2?? 37.Rc7 △Rh8 37...Bb4 38.Rh8+ Kg7 39.Rcc8+–]

37.Rc2 Rxc2 [37...Rd1]

38.Bxc2+– 1–0

⚪️#95 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fridman,Daniel (2591)
🔸Hamitevici,Vladimir (2505)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

15.e5! [Restricting the black bishop on g7 and gaining more space that creates some attacking chances for White.]

[15.d5 e5 16.Rb1 Qe7 17.Na4 Bc8 18.Qc2 Nb8 19.c5 bxc5 20.bxc5 Nd7 21.cxd6 cxd6 22.Qc6 Rb8 23.Qc7±; 15.Qb3 c6 16.e5 d5 17.Nd2 Nc7 18.b5 Qd7 19.bxc6 Bxc6 20.a4 Rfc8 21.Nb5 Bxb5 22.axb5 Rab8 23.cxd5 Nxd5 24.Nc4 Bf8 25.Ne3²]

15...dxe5 [15...Rd8 16.d5 Qd7 17.Qd3±]

16.Nxe5 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 f6 18.Nd3 c6 19.Nf4 e5 20.dxe5 fxe5 21.Qg4 g5 22.Nh5 Qf7 23.Ne4! Rad8 24.Nxg7 Kxg7 25.h4 Qf5 26.Qxf5 Rxf5 27.hxg5 hxg5 28.Rcd1 Rxd1 29.Rxd1 g4 30.Rd8 Rf8 31.Rxf8 Kxf8 32.Nf6 Ke7 33.Nxg4 e4 34.f4 exf3+ 35.Kxf3 Nc7 36.Ke4 a5 37.Ne5 axb4 38.Nxc6+ Kd6 39.Nxb4 Kc5 40.Nd5 Ne8 41.Ke5 Nd6 42.Nxb6 Nf7+ 43.Ke6 Ng5+ 44.Kf5 Nf7 45.Nd7+ 1–0

⚫️#95 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Studer,Noel (2484)
🔸Ortiz Suarez,Isan Reynaldo (2527)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

26...d5! [26...Nc6?! 27.Re3 h5 28.Kc1 g5 29.fxg5 fxg5 30.Rf3+ Kg6 31.Rd3 Rxe4 32.Rxd6+ Kf5 33.Rd7 Re2 34.Rxb7 Rxh2 35.Rf7+ Ke4 36.Rc7 Rh1+ 37.Kb2 Kd5 38.c4+ Kd6 39.Rh7 Ke5 40.Rc7=; 26...Nd5? 27.Bxa5 Nxf4 28.Rd1 Rxe4 29.Rxd6 f5 30.c4 Re7 31.Bb6 Re1+ 32.Kc2 Ke7 33.Bc5 Ke8 34.a5±]

27.e5 Nc6 28.c3 fxe5 29.fxe5 Ke6 30.Bc5 g5!? 31.Bd6 Rg8 32.b4 axb4 [32...h5 33.b5 Ne7 34.Kc2 Rc8]

33.cxb4 g4 34.b5 Nd4 35.Rc1 Rg7? [35...h5 36.Rc7 h4 37.Re7+ Kf5 38.Rf7+ Ke4 39.e6 Nf5 (39...g3 40.hxg3 Nf5) 40.Bc7 g3 41.hxg3 hxg3 42.Bxg3 Nxg3 43.Rxb7 d4 44.Rd7 d3 45.b6 Nf5 46.Kb2 Nd4 47.Kc3 Nxe6 48.b7 Nc5 49.Rd4+ Ke5 50.Kc4 Nxb7 51.Rxd3=]

36.Rc8 h5 37.Rh8 Nf5 38.Rxh5 Nxd6 39.exd6 Kxd6 40.a5 Kc5 41.b6 Kc4 42.Rh8 Kb5 43.Rd8 Kxa5 44.Rxd5+ Kxb6 45.Rd3 Rh7 46.Rd4 Rh4 47.h3 Rxh3 48.Rxg4 Kc5 49.Kb2 b5 50.Rf4 b4 51.Rf8 ½–½

⚪️#96 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Peralta,Fernando (2569)
🔸Adly,Ahmed (2620)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 96
public poll

A) Qd6 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 82%
@Asgarikia, @mahyarebrahimi1983, Nikhil, @Emergenciiii, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, @kiran_64, @WataxPin, Michael

B) Bd3 – 1
👍 9%
@BigHeadWilliam

C) Rd8 – 1
👍 9%
@h_a_d_I_1169

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚪️#96 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Astaneh Lopez,Alex (2433)
🔸Hague,Ben (2405)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 96
public poll

A) f3 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @Toukennn, Nikhil, @hoseini139562, امیر, @RichardPeng, @WataxPin, Michael

B) Rc5 – 1
👍 10%
@akbarvsg

C) Rg6 – 1
👍 10%
@Sophia_Peng

👥 10 people voted so far.

🔴 Today is birthday of Alexander Beliavsky!!
♦️ Slovenian chess grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐

🛑 Today is also birthday of Carlos Matamoros (1966), an Ecuadorian Grandmaster living in Spain. He got an individual gold at the 1982 Olympiad.
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Viktor Korchnoi & Petra Leeuwerik at a press conference hosted by the Swiss Chess Federation at Zürich Airport on 1st July, 1978, to mark the occasion of V. Korchnoi’s decision to represent Switzerland.

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