♦️ 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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Najer, Evgeniy (RUS) - Baron, Tal (ISR)

1-0

World Rapid Championship 2018 round 06

After 10 rounds in the 2018 World Rapid Chess Championship in St. Petersburg, the leaders are Andreikin, Nepomniachtchi, Yu, Artemiev, Wang, and Matlakov, all with 7.5 out of 10. Rapids is 15 minutes per game with 10 second increment after every move. There are 15 rounds.

🔹 Round 10 of FIDE World Rapid-ch Open 2018, St. Petersburg
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🔹 FIDE World Rapid-ch Women 2018, St. Petersburg
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Naiditsch,Arkadij (2721)
⚫️Tregubov,Pavel V (2588)
🔸1-0

38.Qg4! [Naiditsch Intends to exploit Black's back rank weakness.]

[38.Ng5!? △R×b5 38...Qe8 39.Rc7 Rxc7 40.Rxc7 Nc6 41.Qg4 Ne7 42.Qd7 Qxd7 43.Rxd7 Ng6 44.Nxf7 Rh5 45.e6+–]

38...Re6 39.Ng5 Qxe5 40.Qxh4! [Black has no sensible defence against White's threats.]

[40.Qh5!? Ng6 41.Rxd5 Qxd5 42.Rc8+ Nf8 43.Qh7#]

1–0

⚪️#106 (Strategy-White to Move)
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🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi