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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
🔹 PGN format

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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)
🔸Mohammad Fahad,Rahman (2263)
🔸Andriamasoandro,Miora (2126)
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14.Qf4! [The queen transfers to the kingside and joins the attack.]

[14.Rac1 b6 15.Qf4 Be7 16.Qh4 Kg7 17.Qh6+ Kg8 18.Rd3 Bb7 19.Rh3²; 14.f4 b6 15.Qe3 h6 16.Bh4 Bb7 17.Rf1 Rad8 18.Rad1 Be7 19.Bf2 Kg7 20.Nd2±]

14...Be7 15.c5 [15.Qh4! Kg7 16.f4 Ng8 17.Bxe7 Rxe7 18.Rd2 Nc5 19.Qf2±]

15...e5 16.cxd6 Qxd6 17.Rxd6 [17.Qf3! Qe6 18.Rac1±]

17...exf4 18.Rd4 Nf8 19.Bc4 b5 20.Nd5 Nxd5 21.Bxd5 Ra7 22.Bxf4 Ne6 23.Bb8 Nxd4 24.Bxa7 Nc2 25.Rd1 Nb4 26.a3 Nxd5 27.exd5 Bd6 28.Bc5 Rd8 29.Kf1 [29.Bxd6 Rxd6 30.Nc5 Be6 31.Ne4 Rd8 (31...Rxd5?? 32.Nf6++–) 32.Rd2 Bf5 33.Nc5+–]

29...Kf8 30.Ke2 Bf5? [30...Bb7]

31.Bxd6+ Rxd6 32.Nc5 Ke7 33.Ke3 Rb6 34.b4 Kd6 35.Kd4 h5 36.f3 Rb8 37.Rc1 Rb6 38.Re1 Rb8 39.Re3 Bd7 40.Nxa6 Rh8 41.Nc5 Bf5 42.Ne4+ Bxe4 43.fxe4 Rc8 44.e5+ Kd7 45.Rc3 Ra8 46.d6 Kd8 47.Kd5 Rb8 48.Rc7 Ra8 49.Rxf7 Rxa3 50.Rf8+ 1–0

⚫️#106 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Anton Guijarro,David (2639)
🔸Bogner,Sebastian (2619)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi