🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch - Rudolf Spielmann, Hamburg (1910)
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Wojtaszek,Radoslaw (2727)
⚫️Vaibhav,Suri (2597)
🔸1-0

31.Ra2?! [Wojtaszek covers the second rank. However, This move was unnecessary and he missed a golden opportunity to win material.]

[31.Nb7+! Kd7 32.Rxc6 Kxc6 33.Nd8+ Kd7 34.gxh6! h7 34...gxh6 35.Nxf7 Rb2+ 36.Kf3 h5 37.Ra5 Ke7 38.Ng5 Rb6 39.Ne4 a6 40.Rxh5+–]

31...Ke7 32.f4 h5 33.Rac2 Nd6 34.Ra2 Rc7?! [Black didn't manage to find the correct defence.]

[34...a6! would be correct: 35.Rxa6?! (35.Rca1²) 35...Rxa6 36.Nxa6 Rb2+ 37.Kf3 Nf5 38.Nc5 Rh2 39.Ra1 Rh3+ 40.Kf2 Rxe3=]

35.Rca1±

1–0

⚫️#111 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Moayed,Obied (2125)
🔸Neiksans,Arturs (2566)
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25...Nb6! [The knight threatens to penetrate White's's camp through the weak light squares.]

[25...e4 26.f3 Be5 27.Nf4 Nxf4 28.gxf4 Bf6³; 25...Qc4 26.Qd2 e4 27.Nf4 Nxf4 28.Qxf4 (28.gxf4 Bf6µ) 28...Bxc3+ 29.bxc3 Qxc3+ 30.Kf1 Qxa3µ]

26.Be7 Nc4 27.h5 gxh5 28.b4 e4 29.Nf4 Bxc3+ 30.Kf1 [30.Qxc3 Qb1+ 31.Qc1 Qxc1#]

30...Bd2 31.Qd1 Ne3+!! [A brilliant knight sacrifice in order to trap the enemy queen.]

32.fxe3 Bb3 33.Bh3 Bxd1 34.Bxf5+ Kg7 35.Be6 Qxe6 [35...Qxe6 36.Nxe6+ Kf7–+; 35...Qb1! 36.Kg2 Bxe3–+]

0–1

⚪️#111 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Blagojevic,Dragisa (2476)
🔸Hamitevici,Vladimir (2505)
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34.hxg5 [34.Bh3! Rf6 35.Ra1 Rf7 36.Qd1 g4 37.Bg2 Qc8 38.Ra2 Rb7 39.e4 h5 40.exf5 Rxf5 41.Re4 Rbf7 42.Rae2 d5 43.Re8 Qd7 44.cxd5 cxd5 45.R2e5 Rxe5 46.Rxe5 Bg7 47.Rxd5+–; 34.Ra1! Re8 35.hxg5 hxg5 36.Ra6 Qb7 37.Ra4 Rb8 38.Rxd6 Qb1+ 39.Bf1 Qxd3 40.Rxd3 Rb7 41.Rd8 Kg7 42.Ra6 Rf7 43.f4 gxf4 44.gxf4 Rc7 45.Ra2 Rf7 46.Kf2 Kf6 47.Raa8 Bg7 48.Rd6+ Ke7 49.Rad8 Bc3 50.Be2 Ba5 51.R8d7+ Kf8 52.Bh5 Rxd7 53.Rxd7 Rxc4 54.Rf7+ Kg8 55.Rxf5±]

½–½

⚪️#112 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Bernotas,Arturs (2408)
🔸Issa,Rafat (2388)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 112
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B) Be1 – 8
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A) b3 – 3
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C) Qf3 – 1
👍 8%
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⚫️#112 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Gong,Qianyun (2321)
🔸Damaso,Rui (2440)
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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 112
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A) Kg5 – 11
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B) Ke5 – 4
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M, @Arminya66, @mahyarebrahimi1983, @Sharifian_2004

C) Rg3 – 1
👍 6%
@Sophia_Peng

👥 16 people voted so far.

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▪️ Born: February 20, 1914, New York City, NY
▪️ Died: January 2, 2005, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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🔹Leningrad 1924/35
🔹9th Soviet Chess Champion

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Leningrad 1924/35
🔹 7 December - 2 January
🔹 9th Soviet Chess Champion

🔰 CHAMPION: Grigory Levenfish | 12/19 (+8 -3 =8) |
SHARED WITH: Ilya Rabinovich | 12/19 (+9−4=6) |

📚 The 9th Soviet Chess Championship was played in the city of Leningrad from December 7th, 1934 to January 2nd, 1935. Twenty of the Soviet Union's best chess masters competed in the round robin event, with only one noticeable absence: Mikhail Botvinnik. The winner of the previous two Soviet championships had accepted an invitation to the chess festival held at Hastings at the end of the year 1934, and therefore could not participate as his nation's returning champion. Thus, two of Botvinnik's main rivals at the time were able to succeed at the top of their game in their opponent's absence. They were Fedor Bohatirchuk and Grigory Levenfish, and succeed they did. In the first half of the tournament Bohatirchuk led the field, closely followed by Vladimir Alatortsev, but he fell behind in the second half, allowing Levenfish to finish first, which he shared with Ilya Rabinovich. Bohatirchuk had to settle for third place, tying with Nikolai Riumin, half a point behind the winners. It was the first of two titles that Levenfish would win, while Rabinovich would never win another USSR crown.

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▪️ USSR Championship (1934/35), Leningrad URS, rd 3
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