Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 100
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B) h4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
@hoseini139562, Babak, @h_a_d_I_1169, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, @WataxPin
A) Nd5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
@SophiaCat_does_Chess, M
C) Nd2 – 1
👍 13%
@Ndtaker
👥 8 people voted so far.
public poll
B) h4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
@hoseini139562, Babak, @h_a_d_I_1169, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, @WataxPin
A) Nd5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
@SophiaCat_does_Chess, M
C) Nd2 – 1
👍 13%
@Ndtaker
👥 8 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 100
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B) Rhd1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
@Jasemsa, @MaHDiiii_83, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, @WataxPin, @Ndtaker, Vedant, Michael
C) Rhb1 – 4
👍👍👍👍 31%
@M_L_110213, @BehroudR, Babak, M
A) Bd3 – 1
👍 8%
@h_a_d_I_1169
👥 13 people voted so far.
public poll
B) Rhd1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
@Jasemsa, @MaHDiiii_83, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, @WataxPin, @Ndtaker, Vedant, Michael
C) Rhb1 – 4
👍👍👍👍 31%
@M_L_110213, @BehroudR, Babak, M
A) Bd3 – 1
👍 8%
@h_a_d_I_1169
👥 13 people voted so far.
🔴 Today is birthday of Pavel Tregubov!!
♦️ Russian chess grandmaster
👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐
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👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐
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The 11th Olympiad in Amsterdam. Final group 'A' 5th round (17th September); the match Iceland v. Argentina. On 1st board, Friðrik Ólafsson faces Miguel Najdorf; on board 2, Julio Bolbochan faces Guðbjartur Guðmundsson.
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"I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me."
🔸 Rudolf Spielmann
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🔸 Rudolf Spielmann
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#RealGameTactics Judit Polgar vs Snorri Bergsson, Reykjavik, 1988. White to move and win.
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Emanuel Lasker in Chicago
Olimpiu G. Urcan (Singapore) has forwarded, courtesy of Alan Fallert (Chicago, IL, USA), two photographs of Emanuel Lasker in Chicago in the 1930s.
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Olimpiu G. Urcan (Singapore) has forwarded, courtesy of Alan Fallert (Chicago, IL, USA), two photographs of Emanuel Lasker in Chicago in the 1930s.
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🔵 About Mark Dvoretsky
🔹 Mark Dvoretsky
🔹 Russian chess trainer and writer
🔰 Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky was a Russian chess trainer, writer, and International Master.
He was born in Moscow, Russia (formerly USSR). He was Moscow champion in 1973, and awarded the IM title in 1975. Dvoretsky was also a FIDE Senior Trainer and noted author.
During the 1970s, Mark was widely regarded by the strongest IM in the world, due to a number of excellent results: he was Moscow Champion in 1973, finished equal fifth in a strong Soviet Championship in 1974, won the Wijk aan Zee Masters tournament of 1975 by a clear point and a half, and a creditable finish at the USSR Championship of 1975.
Dvoretsky has written a series of chess training books, commencing with Secrets of Chess Training which won the BCF book of the year award in 1991.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
♦️ A memorable game by Dvoretsky which named "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual" in chessgames.com site (End in 26 moves)👇
🔸 Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky vs Vasily Smyslov
🔸 Odessa (1974) URS-ch sf
🔸 Spanish Game: Exchange. Normal Variation (C69)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇
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🔹 Mark Dvoretsky
🔹 Russian chess trainer and writer
🔰 Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky was a Russian chess trainer, writer, and International Master.
He was born in Moscow, Russia (formerly USSR). He was Moscow champion in 1973, and awarded the IM title in 1975. Dvoretsky was also a FIDE Senior Trainer and noted author.
During the 1970s, Mark was widely regarded by the strongest IM in the world, due to a number of excellent results: he was Moscow Champion in 1973, finished equal fifth in a strong Soviet Championship in 1974, won the Wijk aan Zee Masters tournament of 1975 by a clear point and a half, and a creditable finish at the USSR Championship of 1975.
Dvoretsky has written a series of chess training books, commencing with Secrets of Chess Training which won the BCF book of the year award in 1991.
🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
♦️ A memorable game by Dvoretsky which named "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual" in chessgames.com site (End in 26 moves)👇
🔸 Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky vs Vasily Smyslov
🔸 Odessa (1974) URS-ch sf
🔸 Spanish Game: Exchange. Normal Variation (C69)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇
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@Dvorietzky-Smyslov 1974.pgn
1016 B
🔸 Mark Dvoretsky - Vasily Smyslov, Odessa 1974
🔸 PGN format
🔸 Annotated by chessbase
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🔸 PGN format
🔸 Annotated by chessbase
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Rapport,Richard (2725)
⚫️Paehtz,Elisabeth (2513)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 3
⚪️Rapport,Richard (2725)
⚫️Paehtz,Elisabeth (2513)
🔸1-0
27.d5! [Vacating the d4–square for the f3–knight.]
[27.Rhc1!? Ng7 28.Ra7 Ra8 29.Rcc7 Rxa7 30.Rxa7 Rd8 31.Bc6+–]
27...exd5 [27...Ng7? 28.dxe6+ Nxe6 29.Bxe6+ Kxe6 30.Nd4+ Rxd4 31.exd4+–]
28.Nd4! Bd6 [28...Ng7 29.Nc6 Ra8 30.Nxe7 Kxe7 31.Bxb5+ Kf8 32.Bd7+–]
29.Be6+ Kg6 30.Bf7+ Kh6 31.Nxf5+ Kg5 32.Nxd6! [White intends to weave a mating net which entangles the enemy king in its strands.]
32...Rxd6 33.h4+ Kh6 34.g4 Ng7 35.f4 1–0
[27.Rhc1!? Ng7 28.Ra7 Ra8 29.Rcc7 Rxa7 30.Rxa7 Rd8 31.Bc6+–]
27...exd5 [27...Ng7? 28.dxe6+ Nxe6 29.Bxe6+ Kxe6 30.Nd4+ Rxd4 31.exd4+–]
28.Nd4! Bd6 [28...Ng7 29.Nc6 Ra8 30.Nxe7 Kxe7 31.Bxb5+ Kf8 32.Bd7+–]
29.Be6+ Kg6 30.Bf7+ Kh6 31.Nxf5+ Kg5 32.Nxd6! [White intends to weave a mating net which entangles the enemy king in its strands.]
32...Rxd6 33.h4+ Kh6 34.g4 Ng7 35.f4 1–0
18.Nd5? [White occupies the outpost hastily.]
[It would be correct to first play 18.h4!? gaining space on the kingside. 18...Nc7 19.Qb6 Nxb5 20.Qxd8+ Rxd8 21.Nxb5 Rd7 (21...d5? 22.Nc7±) 22.Nc3 Bd8 23.Nc1 Rc8 24.Nd5 Rc5 25.Nd3 Rc8 26.Nf2 Kf8 27.b3 Rc5 28.c4 h6 29.g5 Bxd5 30.exd5 Rc8 31.Ne4²; 18.Nd2 Rc5 19.Nb3 (19.Nf1 Nc7³) 19...Rcc8]
18...Nc7 [18...Bxd5 19.exd5 Bh4 20.Qe2 Nc7= /= +]
19.Nxc7 Qxc7 20.Rd3 b6 21.Rhd1 Qb7 22.Nc1 Rc5 23.Ne2 d5 24.exd5 Rxd5 25.Nc3 Rxd3 26.Rxd3 Rd8 27.Rxd8+ Bxd8 28.Qe2 Qc7 29.Ne4 Be7 30.Qd3 h6 31.h3 g6 32.Nd2 Qd6 33.Qxd6 Bxd6 34.Bc4 Bc8 35.Bd5 Kg7 36.Nc4 Bc7 37.c3 Bd7 38.b3 f5 39.Kc2 Kf6 40.Ne3 Kg5 41.Bf7 Bc6 42.Nd5 Bd8 43.c4 h5 44.Be6 hxg4 45.hxg4 e4 46.gxf5 exf3 47.fxg6 Kxg6 48.Kd2 Bg5+ 49.Ke1 Bh4+ 50.Kf1 Kg5 51.Nc3 Kf4 52.Nd5+ Kg5 53.Nc3 Be8 54.Bd5 Kf4 55.Ne4 Ke3 56.c5 bxc5 57.Nxc5 Bg6 58.Bc4 Bf5 59.Be6 Bc2 60.b4 Bd1 61.Bh3 Bf2 0–1
[It would be correct to first play 18.h4!? gaining space on the kingside. 18...Nc7 19.Qb6 Nxb5 20.Qxd8+ Rxd8 21.Nxb5 Rd7 (21...d5? 22.Nc7±) 22.Nc3 Bd8 23.Nc1 Rc8 24.Nd5 Rc5 25.Nd3 Rc8 26.Nf2 Kf8 27.b3 Rc5 28.c4 h6 29.g5 Bxd5 30.exd5 Rc8 31.Ne4²; 18.Nd2 Rc5 19.Nb3 (19.Nf1 Nc7³) 19...Rcc8]
18...Nc7 [18...Bxd5 19.exd5 Bh4 20.Qe2 Nc7= /= +]
19.Nxc7 Qxc7 20.Rd3 b6 21.Rhd1 Qb7 22.Nc1 Rc5 23.Ne2 d5 24.exd5 Rxd5 25.Nc3 Rxd3 26.Rxd3 Rd8 27.Rxd8+ Bxd8 28.Qe2 Qc7 29.Ne4 Be7 30.Qd3 h6 31.h3 g6 32.Nd2 Qd6 33.Qxd6 Bxd6 34.Bc4 Bc8 35.Bd5 Kg7 36.Nc4 Bc7 37.c3 Bd7 38.b3 f5 39.Kc2 Kf6 40.Ne3 Kg5 41.Bf7 Bc6 42.Nd5 Bd8 43.c4 h5 44.Be6 hxg4 45.hxg4 e4 46.gxf5 exf3 47.fxg6 Kxg6 48.Kd2 Bg5+ 49.Ke1 Bh4+ 50.Kf1 Kg5 51.Nc3 Kf4 52.Nd5+ Kg5 53.Nc3 Be8 54.Bd5 Kf4 55.Ne4 Ke3 56.c5 bxc5 57.Nxc5 Bg6 58.Bc4 Bf5 59.Be6 Bc2 60.b4 Bd1 61.Bh3 Bf2 0–1