🔹 Gibraltar Masters 2019
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Wallace,John Paul (2377)
⚫️Melkumyan,Hrant (2660)
🔸0-1

31...Nxd3! 32.Rxd3 Qg7‚ [Black puts more pressure on White's kingside. The pin on g2 is very annoying for White.]

33.Rxd6 [¹33.Rxe6 Bxf3 34.Qe1 Bc6³ △R×f2]

33...Bxf3! [A powerful blow that destroys White's defence.]

34.Qd4?! [34.gxf3?? gxf3+ 35.Kh1 Qg2#; ¹34.Qd2 Bxg2 35.Rd8! g3 36.Rxf8+ Rxf8 37.Nh1 gxh2+ 38.Kxh2 Bf3 39.Rg1 Bg4³]

34...e5! 35.Qb6 Bc6! [△R×f2]

36.Rd2 g3 37.hxg3 [37.Nd1 Rf2 38.Nxf2 gxh2+ △Q×g2 39.Kf1 Qxg2+ 40.Ke2 Qf3+ 41.Kf1 h1Q#–+]

37...Qxg3

0–1

⚫️#127 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Zhai Mo (2352)
🔸Girya,O (2481)
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12...c5! [Black pursues his attack on the queenside by opening lines there.]

[12...a4 13.a3 Bxa3 14.bxa3 b4 15.Qe3 bxc3 16.Bxa6 Rxa6 17.Bd6 Nb6 18.Bb4 Nc4 19.Qxc3 Qc7 20.Nf2 Rb8 21.Nd3 Rab6 22.g4 Qg3 23.Rdf1 dxe4 24.Rhg1 Qh2 25.Rh1 Qe2 26.fxe4-0.66/24; 12...Nf6 13.g4 a4 14.g5 Nxh5 15.gxh6 Nxf4 16.Nxf4 g6=]

13.dxc5 Bxc5 14.Nxb5 [14.exd5 b4 15.Nb5 Nxd5–+]

14...e5 15.Bd2 Bxb5 16.Qxb5 Bd4 [16...Rb8 17.Qxa5 Bb6 18.Qb4 (18.Qa6?? Ra8! 19.Qd3 Rxa2–+; 18.Qa3 Ra8 19.Qb3 Nc5 20.Qb5 Rxa2–+) 18...Bd4-/+]

17.c3 Rb8-/+

1–0

⚫️ #127 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Lei Tingjie (2457)
🔸Gara,A (2370)
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42...Bd1 [42...Rd7 43.Bd5 h5 44.h3 Bd1 45.Qe4 Be2 46.e6 Qe1+ 47.Kg2 Qf1+ 48.Kg3 Qe1+=; 42...h5 43.Qf2 h4+ 44.Kg2 Qc3 45.Qf3 Qd2+=]

43.Qf2 Qd3+ 44.Kh4 h6 45.f5 Kh7?? [45...Rd7 46.Bc6 (46.Bg2 g5+ 47.fxg6 (47.Kh5 Kh7! 48.h4 f6 49.hxg5 hxg5 50.Bf1 Qxd6!! 51.exd6 Bb3–+) 47...fxg6 48.Bc5 g5+ 49.Kh5 Rf7 50.Qd4 Qxd4 51.Bxd4 Rf4 52.Bc3 Kh7 53.h3 Bc2–+) 46...Bxg4?? 47.Kxg4 Qc4+]

46.Qf4 Bc2 47.Qf3 Qd4 48.f6 g5+

½–½

⚫️#128 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Zhao Xue (2478)
🔸Lujan,C (2364)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 128
public poll

C) Bd6 – 14
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 88%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, future, @Ehsan_fischer, Gavin, @SteveWongso, Vincent, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Jaikrishnan, @Lornyellor, @AryanLeekha, Michael, Hansika, Matthew

B) B×f3 – 2
👍 13%
Jayden, Kasyap

A) Nd7
▫️ 0%

👥 16 people voted so far.

⚪️ #128 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Vega Gutierrez,S (2389)
🔸Bodnaruk,A (2426)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 128
public poll

A) Rf1 – 21
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 81%
future, @Ehsan_fischer, Gavin, Jayden, @SteveWongso, Vincent, Evan, @Mr_Zaeri, @shayankamkar, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Jaikrishnan, @Lornyellor, @AryanLeekha, @ksrrw, shayan, @WataxPin, Michael, Ali, Matthew, Kasyap

B) R×f8 – 3
👍 12%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @kevav, @arash22_d

C) Bc4 – 2
👍 8%
@roshan_sethuraman, Hansika

👥 26 people voted so far.

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