Cairns Cup: Kosteniuk Leads, Gunina Shines

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Enjoy this wonderful, sacrificial game by Valentina Gunina 🇷🇺 who defeated Marie Sebag 🇫🇷 in round five of the #CairnsCup

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2019 Cairns Cup: My Style

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🔹 2019 Cairns Cup-R5
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Congrats to Iran's 15-years-old GM Alireza Firouzja (2618) on winning the 27th International Fajr Cup.
He beat co-leader GM Sergey Fedorchuk (2604) in the final round to take clear 1st with 7.5/9 points.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

🔹 27th Fajr Cup Masters 2019, Tehran
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It's an equal fight between #Stockfish and #LCZero in #TCEC Season 14 Superfinal.
After 26 draws and 12 decisive games, the score is still even: 18.5-18.5

🔹 TCEC Season 14 Superfinal, Internet
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️L'Ami,Erwin (2639)
⚫️Harsha,Bharathakoti (2492)
🔸1-0

29.c3! [Erwin tries to remove the knight in order to penetrate the opponent's position via the open d-file. Black's back rank is very weak.]

29...Rh5 [29...Nxe6?? 30.Qxe6+! Qxe6 31.Rd8+ Kf7 32.Rf8#; 29...Nb5 30.Qb7 Qe8 31.Qd7+–]

30.cxd4! Rxh6 31.d5! [△d6]

31...g5 [31...Qa8 32.Qe3! △d6 32...Rh5 33.d6 exd6 34.Rxd6 Qe8 35.e7 Kg7 36.Qe6 Rf5 37.Rd8+–]

32.d6 exd6 [32...Qd8 33.Rf1 Rg6 34.Qf5+–]

33.Rxd6 Qe8 34.Qd5 Kg7 35.Rd7+ [Black is completely helpless.]

35...Kg6 36.Qe4+ [36.g4!? Rxh3+ 37.Kg2 Qh8 38.Qe4+ Kh6 39.e7+–]

1–0

⚪️#137 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Sheng,Joshua (2451)
🔸Le Tuan Minh (2515)
🔸chess.com INT 2019

17.Nh5!! [A very strong move. White combines defending the f4–square and attacking the g7–square. The point is that after 17...g6, White has prepared the 18.c4 intermediate move.]

[17.Be5? f4 18.Ne4 Rf5 19.Bb2 Ne3µ; 17.f4? Ne3 18.Rfc1 Bb4µ]

17...g6 18.c4! gxh5 19.cxd5 Rxd5 20.Rac1 Qd7 21.Rc7 Qxc7 22.Qxe6+ Rf7 23.Qxd5±

0–1

⚪️ #137 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Vidit,S (2695)
🔸Van Foreest,Jorden (2612)
🔸81st Tata Steel 2019

24.Bxc6! [24.Bc3?! Rb6=]

24...Bxc6 25.Ba3 Be4 26.f3 Bb1 27.Bxc5 Bxa2 28.Bxa7 Rb1 29.Rxb1 Bxb1 30.c5 Kf8 31.Bb8 Ke7 [31...Ke8! 32.Bd6 g6 33.c6 f6±]

32.Bd6+ Ke8 33.c6 Kd8 34.Kf2 Bc2 35.h4 h5 36.Ke3±