🔹 Champions Showdown Rapid
🔹 PGN format

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Pairings/Results
Round 2 #AeroflotOpen

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🔹 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

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

62...Rxg7!! [62...d4?? 63.Bg5++–; 62...Kf4! 63.Kh7 Ke4 64.Kh6 Rxg7–+]

63.Kxg7 f4 64.Bg5 d4 65.Kg6 Ke4!! [65...d3?? 66.Kf5 d2 67.Bxf4+ Kd3 68.Bxd2 Kxd2 69.Ke5 Kc3 70.Kd5 Kb3 71.Kc6 Kxa3 72.Kxb6=]

0–1

⚪️#148 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Martirosyan,Haik M (2607)
🔸Lampert,J (2544)
🔸chess.com INT 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 148
public poll

C) c5 – 16
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
@Hamed_jaafaari, @batonik107, عباس, Ebi, Evan, @YaminiG, @MerissaWongso, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Srikar, @AryanLeekha, @arash22_d, Hansika, Daniel, Matthew, @Kingbosskasyap

A) Nde2
▫️ 0%

B) b4
▫️ 0%

👥 16 people voted so far.

⚪️#147 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Checa,Nicolas (2508)
🔸Le Tuan Minh (2515)
🔸chess.com INT 2019

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 148
public poll

B) Nf6 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@batonik107, عباس, Ebi, Daniel, Evan, @YaminiG, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Matthew, @Kingbosskasyap

A) Kd4 – 3
👍👍 19%
Masoud, @MerissaWongso, Srikar

C) c7 – 1
👍 6%
@arash22_d

👥 16 people voted so far.

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