Road to the Grandmaster title - 3 ways to save a lost game

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"During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work."

🔸 J.R. Capablanca

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This is the autobiography that Sally Landau, Mikhail Tal's first wife, wrote in Russian and first published in 1998. It's an amazing memoir of her time with Tal, with whom she remained friends long after they divorced right up until his death.

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Cairns Cup: Gunina Overtakes Kosteniuk For Lead

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Valentina Gunina leads the Cairns Cup after round 7

🔹 2019 Cairns Cup-R7
🔹 PGN format

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The 3rd Stars Cup features four invited international grandmasters taking on seven of the best Iranian players. The tournament is held in the Anzali Free Zone, Iran, from 12-17 February.

4 rounds have already been played, and the score is still even.

https://goo.gl/NCPjA1

🔹 3rd Stars Cup 2019, Anzali-R4
🔹 PGN format

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Mekhitarian,Krikor Sevag (2546)
⚫️Le,Quang Liem (2715)
🔸0-1

16...Nxd4! [Black exchanges the opponent's central knight and creates the pawn majority on the kingside for himself. Notice that White's dark-squared bishop has been exchanged and thus, the d4 pawn also becomes as a target for attack.]

[16...Bxd5?! 17.cxd5 Nxd4 18.Rxd4 Bxd4 19.Qxd4+ Kg8 20.d6 c6 21.Bf1°]

17.exd4 Rd8 [△B×d5]

18.f3 [18.Qb3 c6 19.Nf4 Bxd4 20.Rc2 c5! 21.Nxe6 Qxe6 22.Qxb7 Rab8 23.Qxa7 Ra8 24.Qb7 Rxa2-/+]

18...exf3 19.Bxf3 c6 [Now, the loss of the pawn on f2 is inevitable.]

20.Qb3 Bf7 21.Nf4 Rxd4 22.Re1 Qd7–+

⚪️#140 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gholami,A (2488)
🔸Gholami Orimi,Mahdi (2375)
🔸Bushehr IRI 2019

16.Bh3! [Iranian talented Aryan Gholami places his light-squared bishop in the right diagonal in order to put more pressure on the opponent.]

[16.Bf4!? Nf6 17.Be5 Nd7 18.Bh3 TR; 16.e3?! Nxe5 17.Nxe5 Nc7²]

16...Qc6 17.Bf4 [with the idea of 18.dxc5. 5]

17...c4 18.e4! Nc7 19.Bxc7 Qxc7 20.Nxd5 Bxd5 21.exd5+–

1–0

⚪️#140 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,V (2777)
🔸Anand,V (2773)
🔸Wijk aan Zee NED 2019

36.Rah4? [36.c4! dxc4 37.bxc4 Rbb8 38.Rxa5²; 36.f4!? N5c6 37.Ba3²]

36...c4 37.bxc4 Nxc4 38.Kg2 Rc5 39.Rg3 Rcc8?!³ [39...a4! 40.Bxa4 (40.Rh1 a3–+) 40...Nf5–+]

⚪️#141 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Moradi,A (2318)
🔸Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2517)
🔸Bushehr IRI 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 141
public poll

B) g4 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
@fantastic45, Jonas, Gavin, Nikhil, @SteveWongso, Saghana, @RichardPeng, @arash22_d, Michael, Hansika, Kasyap

C) Red3 – 4
👍👍👍 27%
@sirgalesh, @Somebody_Sophia, @Aryan13AKS, Matthew

A) c3
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

⚪️#141 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Dhulipalla,Bala Chandra Prasad (2341)
🔸Harsha,B (2481)
🔸Caleta ENG 2019