53.Rf5?! [53.Qxe4! Rxa2+ 54.Kh3 Qxe4 55.Bxe4 Bd4 56.g5 Kg7 57.Kg3 hxg5 58.Rxg5+ Kf8 59.Bd5 Bg7 60.Rh7 Ra7 61.f4 Rh6 62.Rf5+ Ke8 63.Rxh6 Bxh6 64.Bc6+ Ke7 65.Rxc5 Kd6 66.Rh5 Bxf4+ 67.Kxf4 Kxc6 68.Rb5 Rf7+ 69.Ke5 Re7+ 70.Kf6 Re3 71.Rxb4+–; 53.fxe4 Rg6 54.Rf1 Rxg4+ 55.Kh1 Rh4+ 56.Rxh4 Qxh4+ 57.Qh2 Qxh2+ 58.Kxh2 Rxa2+=]

53...exf3+ 54.Bxf3 Qd2 55.Qxd2 Bxd2 56.Rxc5 Rxa2 57.Rc8+ Kg7 58.Bd5 Bg5+? [58...Rf6!²]

59.Kf3 Rb2 60.Ke4 [60.Rg8+ Kf6 61.Ke4 Re2+ (61...Rxb3 62.Rf1++–) ]

60...Rxb3 61.c5 Re3+ 62.Kd4 Rd7 63.c6 Rde7 64.Rg8+ Kh7 65.Rxg5

1–0

⚪️#103 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Morris,James (2494)
🔸Poulsen,Martin (2239)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 103
public poll

C) N×d6 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, future, Nikhil, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng

A) Ba5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
@Portomogor, Babak

B) g5 – 1
👍 13%
@arash22_d

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#103 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Oboladze,Luka (2340)
🔸L'Ami,Erwin (2639)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 103
public poll

A) B×e5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, future, Nikhil, @RichardPeng, @arash22_d

B) h5 – 1
👍 17%
@Sophia_Peng

C) Bf8
▫️ 0%

👥 6 people voted so far.

🔴 Today is birthday of Irina Krush!!
♦️ American chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐
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✴️ #Steinitz

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz
🔸 American-Austrian chess Master
🔸 First World Chess Champion
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✴️ About Steinitz

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz
🔸 American-Austrian chess Master
🔸 First World Chess Champion

📚 Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first undisputed World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.

♦️ Perhaps no chess player represented the spirit of nineteenth century America better than Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900). His intelligence, innovation, arrogance, and shameless self-promotion led some to call him the "father of modern chess."

📚 Born in the Bohemian city of Prague on May 17, 1836, Steinitz was the last of thirteen children in a very poor family.
Chess first entered his life in 1848, but did not gain importance until he moved to Vienna in 1856, where he studied math at the Polytechnic. Money problems and poor health forced him to drop out of school. Chess matches involving a wager, helped supplement the income he made as a journalist.
Steinitz traveled to London in 1862 for his first appearance in an international tournament.
Steinitz is considered by many to be one of the all-time greatest chess writers in the English language, no small feat for one who adopted the language late in life. He wrote a column on chess for the London Figaro in 1876 to 1882. Steinitz also contributed articles to Ashore or Afloat (1883), the New York Tribune (1890-93) and the New York Herald (1893). His most important columns appeared in The Field from 1873 to 1882. These columns featured annotated games that were a vast improvement on previous annotations . . . .

🌐 SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA & YOURDICTIONARY / BIOGRAPHY

♦️ A memorable game by Steinitz👇
▪️ Mikhail Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz
▪️ Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Match (1889), Havana CUB, rd 15, Feb-21
▪️ Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Slow Variation (C52)

▫️ Review and dowload PGN file👇
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▪️ Mikhail Chigorin - Wilhelm Steinitz, WCh Match (1889)
▪️ PGN format
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Congrats to Alvar Alonso Rosell (2524) on winning the strong Sunway Sitges chess tournament with 8/10 points.
http://bit.ly/2QKMCD4

9️⃣ on the 10 best games of 2018 list is this chaotic game between Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana at the Candidates. 👏⚔️👏

magnus_carlsen:
Ready to turn St.Petersburg upside down world rapid-blitz

🏁✅ GM Short - FM Murzin Friendly blitz with a ringing GAME 4

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VG: Magnus Carlsen is Norway's 2nd biggest sports athlete in 2018.

https://www.vg.no/spesial/2018/topp-100-sport/