38...g5! [38...f6 39.Ne1 fxe5 40.fxe5 Rxe5 41.Nd3 Re8 42.Nxc5 Ra3 43.Nce4 Rea8 44.Ke2 g5 45.Nf3 Kg7 46.Kd2 R8a4µ; 38...Kh7 39.Ke2 g5 40.g3 Kg6 41.Ne3 Rd8 42.f5+ Kg7³]

39.g3 Kf8 40.Kf2 Raa8 41.Ne1 Reb8 42.Ke2 Ra3 43.Nef3 Rb2 44.Kd1 Rxf3 45.Kc1 [45.Nxf3 Rb1+–+]

45...Rxd2 46.Kxd2 Rxg3 47.fxg5 hxg5 48.Kc2 Ra3 49.Kb2 Ra7
0–1

⚪️#106 (Strategy-White to Move)
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🔸Andriamasoandro,Miora (2126)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 106
public poll

A) f4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
Jonas, Nikhil, Vincent, @WataxPin, Matthew

C) Qf4 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
future, Farshid

B) Rac1 – 1
👍 13%
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👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#106 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 106
public poll

C) Kg7 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
@M_L_110213, Jonas, Nikhil, @BehroudR, Vincent, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, @WataxPin, Matthew

A) e5
▫️ 0%

B) Kf8
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

🔴 Today is birthday of Kateryna Lagno!!
♦️ Russian chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birhday 🌺🌸☘️💐🌷💐💐
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Minsk 1979
🔹47th Soviet Chess Champion

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Minsk 1979
🔹 29 November - 27 December
🔹 47th Soviet Chess Champion

🔰 CHAMPION: Efim Geller | 11½/17 (+6−0=11) |

♦️ The 47th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XII event held in the city of Minsk from November 29th to December 27th, 1979. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin tournament.

🔴 The players including (in order of ELO):
◼️ Mikhail Tal (2615)
◼️ Yuri Balashov (2600)
◼️ Alexander Beliavsky (2595)
◼️ Rafael Vaganian (2570)
◼️ Oleg Romanishin (2560)
◼️ Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2560)
◼️ Efim Geller (2550)
◼️ Garry Kasparov (2545)
◼️ Evgeni Sveshnikov (2545)
◼️ Viktor Kupreichik (2540)
◼️ Tamas Georgadze (2535)
◼️ Sergey Makarichev (2500)
◼️ Nukhim Rashkovsky (2500)
◼️ Sergey Dolmatov (2495)
◼️ Artur Yusupov (2490)
◼️ Konstantin Lerner (2475)
◼️ Yuri Razuvaev (2470)
◼️ Yuri Anikaev (2455)

♦️ Geller, who had last won the USSR championship in 1955, finished clear first with six wins and eleven draws. He set a record for the longest number of years between winning Soviet crowns at 24 years. Alas, it was to be Geller's last hurrah at an event of this magnitude, but he showed he still had the goods even if it was well after his prime.

🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM / WIKIPEDIA / OLIMPBASE /

🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Minsk 1979 Games Database " by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from this tournament👇

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♦️ Review our selected game from "Minsk 1979 Chess Tournament"👇
▪️ Efim Geller vs Yuri N Anikaev
▪️ 47th USSR Championship (1979), Minsk BLR, rd 14, Dec-??
▪️ Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Modern Variation (B83))
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🔸 " Minsk 1979 Games Database "
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Our judges selected young Praggnanandhaa's win against Ravi as the sixth best game of 2018!
This romantic assault will fit perfectly into textbook chapters about poisoned pawns and uncastled kings.

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Anand-Firouzja

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Anand, Viswanathan (IND) - Firouzja, Alireza (IRI)

½-½

World Rapid Championship 2018 round 07

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After all kinds of adventures Magnus still goes into the final day of the World Rapid Championship just half a point behind the leaders!

Zubov, Alexander (UKR) - Carlsen, Magnus (NOR)

1-0

World Rapid Championship 2018 round 07

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