⚪️#147 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Musallam Salim Al Aamri (1716)
🔸Al Qudaimi,B (2444)
🔸3rd Muscat Rapid 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 147
public poll

A) Qe2 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 53%
@shahriarmz88, @Steve1234567890qwerty, @YaminiG, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, Abhi, Matthew, Mohan

C) 0-0 – 5
👍👍👍👍 29%
Gavin, Saghana, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, Michael, Hansika

B) d5 – 3
👍👍 18%
@batonik107, عباس, Amirmasoud

👥 17 people voted so far.

⚫️#147 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Goryachkina,A (2518)
🔸Vega Gutierrez,S (2390)
🔸Caleta ENG 2019

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 147
public poll

A) R×g7 – 16
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 84%
@Salehdasin, @Hamed_jaafaari, عباس, Masoud, Gavin, @Steve1234567890qwerty, @YaminiG, Farshid, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, Michael, Hansika, Abhi, Matthew

B) d4 – 2
👍 11%
@Portomogor, Saghana

C) Kf4 – 1
▫️ 5%
@batonik107

👥 19 people voted so far.

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Rapport On Full Throttle At Champions Showdown Day 1

Here are the standings after round 4 (2 points for each win, 1 point for each draw):

🔹 Champions Showdown Rapid
🔹 PGN format

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Pairings/Results
Round 2 #AeroflotOpen

https://goo.gl/wgffx7

🔹 17th Aeroflot Open-A 2019, Moscow-R2
🔹 PGN format

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Anand,Viswanathan (2771)
⚫️Shyam,Sundar M (2505)
🔸1-0

20.b4! [An impressive move by ex-world champion Vishy Anand. The Black's knight is forced to runs away into a passive position.]

20...Nb7 [20...cxb3 21.axb3 Bd8 22.Bd2 Nb7 23.Rxa7+–]

21.a4! [A standard move in such positions.]

21...Bd8 [21...a6 22.Be3 Bd8 23.axb5 axb5 24.Ra7 R5f7 25.Rfa1 Qf5 26.f3+–]

22.Be3 Bb6 23.Bxb6 axb6 24.Qe3 bxa4 25.Qxb6 Rf4 26.f3!+– [White has a mighty knight on e4 and can look for an attack on the queenside.]

1–0

⚪️#147 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Musallam Salim Al Aamri (1716)
🔸Al Qudaimi,B (2444)
🔸3rd Muscat Rapid 2019

12.Qe2? [12.d5! would be correct, in order to open up the position for White's bishop pair. 12...c5 13.0–0 0–0±; 12.0–0 e6= would Blockade the position completely, however, White's position would still be acceptable.]

12...Nb6 13.Rd1 Nd5 14.g3 e6-/+

0–1