Here are the overall standings at the end of the rapid portion:

🔹 Champions Showdown Rapid
🔹 PGN format

@UnityChess

🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Melkumyan,Hrant (2660)
⚫️Kashlinskaya,Alina (2447)
🔸1-0

20.a3! [The black knight has no proper square.]

20...Rxd1+ [The black knight has no proper square. In order to avoid loss of a pawn, Kashlinskaya decides to give up the open d-file.]

[¹20...Nd5 21.Nxd5 Bxd5 22.Bxd5 exd5 23.Rxd5 Rxd5 24.Qxd5±]

21.Rxd1 Bxg2 22.Kxg2 Nc6 23.Rd7! Na5 24.Qb5 Bf8 25.Qxa6 bxa6 26.Rxa7± [All White's pieces are working together to dominate the board.]

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

12.c5! [A typical move to damage Black's pawn structure.]

[12.Nde2!? c5 13.b3=; 12.b4?! Qc7 13.c5 d5³]

12...Re8 [12...dxc5? 13.Nb3 c4 14.Nc5 Qc7 15.Qe2±]

13.Nb3 Be6 14.Nd4 Bd7 15.Qd2 Qc7 16.Rac1 d5 17.exd5 Nxd5 18.Nxd5 cxd5 19.f4 e5 20.fxe5 Qxe5 21.Bf2²

1–0

⚪️#148 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Checa,Nicolas (2508)
🔸Le Tuan Minh (2515)
🔸chess.com INT 2019

47.Kd4!! [47.Nf6! Ke7 48.Rh2+–; 47.c7!? Ra7 48.c8Q+ (48.Kd4 Nf5+) 48...Nxc8 49.Rh2±]

47...Ke7 [47...Rxb4+ 48.Kc5+–]

48.Kc5 Ra3 49.Rh2 Rc3+ 50.Kb6 Nc4+ 51.Nxc4 bxc4 52.c7+–

1–0

⚪️#149 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Duda,J (2738)
🔸Bacrot,E (2684)
🔸PRO League Group Stage 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 149
public poll

C) B×e4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
Jonas, Ebi, @Steve1234567890qwerty, Vincent, @raienr, Michael, Hansika, Daniel

B) Nc4 – 5
👍👍👍👍 38%
@batonik107, عباس, Masoud, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy

A) N×c6
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚫️#149 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Yu,Yangyi (2764)
🔸Artemiev,V (2709)
🔸Gibraltar masters 2019

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 149
public poll

A) Ne7 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
@Ehsan_fischer, Jonas, @Steve1234567890qwerty, Vincent, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Michael, Hansika, Daniel

C) Kf5 – 5
👍👍👍👍 31%
@batonik107, عباس, Ebi, @raienr, @SophiaCat_does_Chess

B) e5 – 3
👍👍👍 19%
Masoud, 🌏, @Jarullah

👥 16 people voted so far.

GM Krishnan Sasikiran (2678) wins his 5th game at #AeroflotOpen this time against GM Anton Korobov (2687) and takes a sole lead with a perfect score.