♦️ Judit Polgar's Vedoe and this game👆👆
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♦️ Analysed this game by video format👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHAGJi7eBXg

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🔸 Judit Polgar - Garry Kasparov, Moscow 2002
🔸 PGN format
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‼️ Shining one of the Unity Chess Club' students!!
❗️ Gavin Zhang in PNWCC FIDE Open - Olympic Gold Tournament

♦️ Gavin won clear 1st in the Challengers Section and qualify for entry into Open Masters section next FIDE Open in March!!
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Kovalev,Vladislav (2664)
⚫️Guramishvili,Sopiko (2378)
🔸1-0

20...Rd1+? [This move only helps White to improve his position. Black should have activated his knight to obtain equality:]

[20...Na5! 21.Qc2™ Nc4 △Nd2 22.gxh6 Nd2+ 23.Kg2 gxh6 24.Bxd2 Rxd2 25.Rad1 Rxc2 26.Rxd7 Rxf2+ 27.Kh3 Rxb2 28.Rh2 Rxh2+ 29.Kxh2 Re8 30.Rxb7=]

21.Kg2 Rxh1 22.Kxh1 Bxf2 23.gxh6! Bxh4 24.Be3 Na5 25.Qd5! [Obviously, White is much better and has a decisive initiative.]

25...Qc7 26.Rg1 Bf6 27.Qd1 Qc4 28.Qf3 Nc6 29.hxg7+– [△B3]

1–0

⚫️#126 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Maletina,Tatiana (2270)
🔸Ponkratov,P (2630)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

13...Rxf3! [A typical exchange sacrifice in order to destroy the opponent's King's pawn cover.]

[13...Bg4 14.Ne5 Be6 15.dxc5 bxc5 16.Rac1 Rb8 17.b3 Nxe5 18.Rxe5 Bf7 19.Bf1 Nc6 20.Rxd5 Bxd5 21.Qxd5+ Qxd5 22.Nxd5 Rd6 23.Rxc5„; 13...Rb8 14.dxc5 bxc5 15.b3 Bg4 16.Ne5 Be6 17.Rad1 Qc7 18.Qg5 h6 19.Qg3 Nxe5 20.Qxe5 Qxe5 21.Rxe5 Nc6 22.Ree1 Rd8 23.f3 Kf8 24.Na4 c4 25.bxc4 dxc4 26.Be4²]

14.gxf3 Nxd4 15.Qf4 Ng6? [15...Bf5 16.Rxe7 Qxe7 17.Bxf5 Qf8 18.Bxh7+ (18.Nxd5?? Ne2+–+ (18...Nxf5?? 19.Qxf5! Qxf5 20.Ne7+ Kf8 21.Nxf5+–) ) 18...Kxh7 19.Qxf8 Rxf8 20.Nxd5 Rxf3 21.Rd1 Kg6 22.Re1 Rf6 23.Kg2 Rd6 24.Nc3 Rd7=/+]

16.Bxg6 hxg6 17.Rad1 Bb7=

0–1

⚪️ #126 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Ju Wenjun (2568)
🔸Krush,I (2434)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

26.g5! [26.Kf4 Rd7 27.g5 Rd2 28.gxh6 gxh6 29.Rg1 h5 30.Rg8+ Ke7 31.Rh8 Kf7 32.b4 (32.Rxh5 Kg7³) 32...Rxa2 33.Rh7+ Kg8 34.Rxc7 b6 35.b5 Ra3 36.Re7 Kf8 37.Rb7 Rb3 38.Rxa7 Rxb5 39.Ra4; 26.Rd1+ Rd7 27.Rg1 c5 28.Rc1+/=]

26...hxg5 27.hxg5 fxg5 28.Rg1 Ke8 29.Rxg5 Kf7 30.Rg2 Rd7 31.e5 Rd1 32.Kf4 Rf1+ 33.Kg5 Ke7 34.e6 c6 35.Kg6 Rf3 36.b4 a6 37.Rd2 Rg3+ 38.Kh7 Rg5 39.Rd7+ Ke8 40.Rxb7 Rxf5 41.Kxg7 Rf4 42.Kg6 Kd8 43.Kg5 Rf2 44.a4 Rf1 45.a5 Rf2 46.Rd7+ Ke8 47.Rc7 Kd8 48.Rxc6 Rb2 49.Rb6 Ke7 50.Kf5

1–0

⚫️#127 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Zhai Mo (2352)
🔸Girya,O (2481)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 127
public poll

C) c5 – 19
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, future, @Zamani9899, Gavin, Jayden, @SteveWongso, Vincent, Drew, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Jaikrishnan, @Lornyellor, @AryanLeekha, @Miladdark79, Hansika, Daniel, Alan, Matthew, Kasyap

A) Nf6
▫️ 0%

B) a4
▫️ 0%

👥 19 people voted so far.

⚫️ #127 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Lei Tingjie (2457)
🔸Gara,A (2370)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 127
public poll

A) Bd1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 47%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Drew, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Vedant, Hansika, Alan

C) h5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 47%
future, Gavin, Jayden, @SteveWongso, Vincent, Jaikrishnan, @Lornyellor, Matthew

B) Rd7 – 1
👍 6%
@pooya_chess15

👥 17 people voted so far.

🔴 Today is birthday of Rogelio Barcenilla
♦️ Filipino chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birthday 🌺💐☘️💐🌸🌷
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