Karthikeyan, Murali 1-0 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
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Aronian, Levon 0-1 Howell, David W L
Unwarranted sacrifice and loss by Aronian 😬

Congratulations to 20-year-old Vladislav Artemiev on a fantastic victory in the #GibChess Masters! He takes the £25,000 top prize & has shot up to 2736.4 and world no. 20 in the world rankings

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Vladislav Artemiev Wins GibChess 2019!

🔹 Gibraltar Masters 2019
🔹 PGN format

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February 2019 FIDE Rating List

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Tari,Aryan (2618)
⚫️Zumsande,Martin (2492)
🔸1-0

32.R7f6?! [This dubious move allows White to consolidate his position.]

[He should have eliminated one of the defenders of e4. 32.Rxe7! Rxe7 33.b4! White is not in a hurry and pushes his queenside majority first. 33...Re8 34.c4 Re5 35.c5 Re7 Black is in complete agony, with no useful moves. 36.Kg1 △Kf2 36...Rf7 (36...Kh8? 37.Kf2± △R×e4) 37.Rxe4 Qxe3+ 38.Rxe3 Rf4 39.Rd3 Be8 40.Rd1 h6 41.b5! △c6 41...axb5 42.c6 Bxc6 43.a6 bxa6 44.Nxc6±]

32...Qg7?! [¹32...Qh5! 33.b4 Qe5 34.h4 Kg7 35.Kg1 Qxf6 36.Rxf6 Kxf6=]

33.b4 Kh8 34.Kg1 Qg8 35.Rf1 Kg7 36.Rd6 Rf7 37.Rf4 Ref8?? [37...Rxf4! 38.Qxf4 Bc8 39.Qf6+ Kh6 40.Nf5+ Bxf5 41.Qxf5 Qf8! 42.Qxf8+ Rxf8 43.Re6 Rf4²]

38.Rxe4 Bc8 39.Ne6+! Bxe6 40.Qd4+ Kh6 41.Rdxe6+–

1–0

⚫️#132 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Hoang Thanh Trang (2448)
🔸Danielian,E (2426)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 132
public poll

A) Nb4 – 17
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
@Hadihmz, @mahyarebrahimi1983, امیر, @fantastic45, Gavin, Jayden, @SteveWongso, Vishal, hasan, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Michael, Hansika, Alan, Matthew, Kasyap

B) Rac8 – 2
👍 11%
@Ismailaqa, Ezequiel

C) Rfc8
▫️ 0%

👥 19 people voted so far.

⚪️ #132 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Atalik,E (2445)
🔸Cori T.,D (2406)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 132
public poll

C) Bh3 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 79%
@Hadihmz, @Ismailaqa, Gavin, Jayden, @SteveWongso, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, Michael, Hansika, Ezequiel, Kasyap

A) Bb2 – 2
👍 14%
Vishal, Matthew

B) g4 – 1
👍 7%
@Somebody_Sophia

👥 14 people voted so far.

🔴 Today is birthday of Vasily Yemelin
♦️ Russian chess Grandmaster

👏👏👏👏👏 Happy birthday 🌺💐☘️💐🌸🌷

⚛️ Today is also birthday of Aleksandr Galkin, a Russian chess grandmaster who won the 1999 World Junior Chess Championship. In the September 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2608.
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Riga-85. Zonal tournament for the championship of the world. Lev Psakhis, Mark Dvoretsky, Yuri Razuvaev, Sergey Smagin. First, great grandmasters, then great coaches.

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“Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.”

🔸 Pal Benko

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Future world champions Boris Spassky and Tigran Petrosian, pictured in 1955.

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