Boris Spassky in play v. Klaus Darga in the opening round of the Hoogovens tournament at Beverwijk, 11th January 1967.

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Future grandmaster and FIDE World Championship challenger Gata Kamsky. USSR, 1980s.

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GM Nihal Sarin - GM Le Quang Liem

🔴 The 2019 Spring Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 2-10 March in the St. Louis Chess Club.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/spring-chess-classic-2019-a/1/1/1

Congrats to the Oxford team on winning their varsity match against Cambridge with a score of 4½-3½.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/oxford-cambridge-varsity-match-2019

🔹 137th Varsity Match 2019
🔹 PGN format

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Jumabayev,Rinat (2605)
⚫️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2780)
🔸0-1

33...Rxb2! [A powerful piece sacrifice by Vachier that has required deep calculation. The opponent's king looks vulnerable, and he tries to exploit it.]

34.Nf1 [34.fxe5 dxe5 35.Nf3 (35.Ngf5 Bxf5 36.exf5 exd4 37.fxg6 h6–+ △d3) 35...Ng4! △Qf2 36.Rd3 Qf2+ 37.Kd1 Rxf3 38.Qxb2 Rxd3+ 39.Kc2 Rf3 40.Rc1 Nxh2 41.Qxe5 Qxg3 42.Qxg3 Rxg3–+]

34...Nxe4! [Vachier continues his attack with all of his pieces.]

35.fxe5 dxe5 36.Ng3 exd4 [36...Nf2!? 37.Bc4 Nxd1 38.Nge2 Nf2 39.d6+ Kg7 40.d7 Rb1+ 41.Kd2 Ne4+ 42.Kc2 Rb4 43.Bb3 exd4–+]

0–1

⚫️#155 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Harikrishna,P (2726)
🔸Caruana,F (2828)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

30...Rxe1! [In order to use his own queenside pawn majority, Caruana correctly decides to exchange a pair of rooks.]

[30...b6 31.Red1 Preventing ...c5. 31...Ne7 (31...c5 32.Bxc5±) 32.Be3 c5 33.Rd6±; 30...Re6 31.Rxe6 Kxe6 32.g4=]

31.Rxe1 c5 32.Be3 b5 33.Kf3 c4 34.Bd2 b4 35.Rc1 f5 36.g4? [¹36.Ke2]

36...fxg4+ 37.Kxg4 c3 38.bxc3 bxc3 39.Be1 Rc4+ 40.Kf3 Rxh4–+

0–1

⚫️#155 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Tahbaz,Arash (2460)
🔸Gholami,Arian (2488)
🔸Iranian finall championship 2019

1...Nc2+!! [1...Kg5? 2.Kc3 Nc6 3.Kxb3 Ne5 4.Bc2‡+–; 1...b2? 2.a4! (2.Kc3?? Nb5+ 3.Kxb2 Nxa3 4.Kxa3=) 2...Ne6 3.Bb1±]

2.Kxb3 Nxa3 3.Kxa3 Kg5 4.Kb4 Kf6 5.Kc5 Ke7 6.Bc4 Kf8 7.Kd6 Ke8=

½–½

⚫️#156 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Harikrishna,P (2726)
🔸Caruana,F (2828)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 156
public poll

B) Na5 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, عباس, @Somebody_Sophia, @RichardPeng, Sahil, Srikar, Atharva, Michael, Hansika, Daniel, Abhi, Matthew

A) d4 – 3
👍👍 19%
Masoud, Max, Saghana

C) Kb7 – 1
👍 6%
@Sujas2

👥 16 people voted so far.