⚪️ #124 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Sadhwani,Raunak (2438)
🔸Bianco,V (2008)
🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG

28.gxh6! [28.gxf6!? Rfxf6 29.Rxf6 gxf6 30.Rg1+ Kf7 31.Rg6 Rb5 32.Rxh6 f5 33.Rh7+ Kf6 34.Rd7 Kg5 35.exf5 Kxh5 36.f6 Kg6 37.f7 Kg7 38.Kc1 c3 39.bxc3 bxc3 40.Kd1 Rb4 41.Ke2 Rd4 42.Ke3±; 28.g6? c3 29.Rf3 Rc8 30.b3 Kf8 31.Rd3 Ke7 32.Rff3 Rf8 33.a3 a5=]

28...gxh6 29.Rg1+ Kh7 30.Rg6 c3 31.b3 Rb7 [31...Rg8 32.Rfg2 Rd8 (32...Rxg6 33.Rxg6 Rd6 34.a4 a5 35.Kc1+–) 33.Kc1 Rbd6 34.Rg7+ Kh8 35.R2g6 f5 36.Rxd6 Rxd6 37.Rg6 Rd7 38.Rxh6+ Kg7 39.Rg6+ Kf7 40.Kd1 fxe4 41.d6+–]

32.Rfxf6 Rxf6 33.Rxf6 Rg7 34.Rf1 Kg8 35.a3 a5 36.a4 Rg4 37.d6 Rg7 38.Kc1 Rf7 39.Rd1 Rd7 40.Rd5 Kf7 41.Rxa5 Rxd6 42.Rxe5 Rd2 43.Rb5 Re2 44.Kb1 Rxe4 45.a5 Re1+ 46.Ka2 Rc1 47.Rxb4 Rxc2+ 48.Kb1

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⚫️#125 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Ponkratov,P (2630)
🔸Shuvalova,Polina (2441)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 125
public poll

A) Qb6 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
@Amirsparky, future, Jonas, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Jaikrishnan, @Lornyellor, @AryanLeekha, Atharva, Hansika, Kasyap

B) d4 – 4
👍👍👍 27%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Max, @soheil_hooshdaran, Jayden

C) d×e4
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

⚪️ #125 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Kryakvin,D (2588)
🔸Shuvalova,Polina (2441)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 125
public poll

A) Rc1 – 15
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%
@Anasiri6889, @mahyarebrahimi1983, future, Jonas, @soheil_hooshdaran, @Squirtle1, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Jai, Srikar, @Lornyellor, @AryanLeekha, @Qwerty123Tseries, ا, Hansika, @Kingbosskasyap

C) Rd2 – 2
👍 11%
Max, @SophiaCat_does_Chess

B) a3 – 1
▫️ 6%
Naeim

👥 18 people voted so far.

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Vilnius 1980/81
🔹 48th Hoogoventoernooi

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Vilnius 1980/81
🔹 December 25th, 1980 - January 21st, 1981
🔹48th Soviet Chess Championship


🔰 CHAMPION: Lev Psakhis | 10.5/17 (+8 -4 =5) |
SHARED WITH : Alexander Beliavsky | 10.5/17 (+6 -2 =9) |

📚 The 48th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XII event held in the city of Vilnius from December 25th, 1980 to January 21st, 1981. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin tournament, including (in order of ELO):
▪️ Yuri Balashov (2600)
▪️ Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2595)
▪️ Alexander Beliavsky (2590)
▪️ Rafael Vaganian (2590)
▪️ Oleg Romanishin (2580)
▪️ Efim Geller (2565)
▪️ Evgeni Vasiukov (2545)
▪️ Tamas Georgadze (2540)
▪️ Valery Chekhov (2535)
▪️ Sergey Dolmatov (2535)
▪️ Viktor Kupreichik (2535)
▪️ Lev Psakhis (2535)
▪️ Gennadi Kuzmin (2530)
▪️ Nukhim Rashkovsky (2520)
▪️ Yuri Razuvaev (2515)
▪️ Sergey Makarichev (2495)
▪️ Artur Yusupov (2485)
▪️ Smbat Lputian (2445)

📚 Beliavsky and Psakhis finished shared first with 10.5/17 each. It was Beliavsky's second of an eventual four USSR championship victories, while it was the first of what would be two consecutive Soviet crowns for Psakhis.
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🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
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🔸 Lev Psakhis vs Evgeni Vasiukov
🔸 Vilnius URS ch (1980), rd 17
🔸 Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation. Yugoslav Attack Modern Line (B76)
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