24 Photos · Schachbundesliga · Finale · Berlin

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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Deac,Bogdan-Daniel (2594)
⚫️Adams,Michael (2712)
🔸0-1

29...hxg3! [The most accurate move to continue the attack. Adams clears the h4–square for his knight.]

30.fxg3 [Recapturing with the other pawn would be bad: 30.hxg3 Nh4+ 31.Kh3 Nf3–+]

30...Be3! [30...Rxc1! is just as good: 31.Qxc1 Be3 32.Qc2 Qg4 33.Nc1 Bxc1 34.Rxc1 Nf4+ 35.Kg1 Ne2+ 36.Kf2 Nxc1 37.Qxc1 Rd3–+]

31.Rxc4 bxc4 32.Nf2 Nf4+! 33.Kh1 Nd3!? [¹33...Bxf2! 34.Qxf2 Nd3 35.Qd2 Qxd2 36.Bxd2 Nxb2–+]

34.Nxd3 cxd3 35.Qd1 d2 36.Bc3 Qg6!

0–1

⚫️#156 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Harikrishna,P (2726)
🔸Caruana,F (2828)
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23...d4! [Fabiano gives up his extra pawn in order to seize the initiative.]

[23...Na5 24.Rf6 h5 25.Bd4=; 23...Kb7 24.Bxc6+ Kxc6 25.a5=]

24.Bf4+ [24.Bxc6 dxe3 25.Bb5 Rd2=/+]

24...Kb7 25.Bxc6+ Kxc6 26.Be5 [¹26.cxd4 Rd5=]

26...Rhg8 27.Bxd4 Rd5! [Preventing White from playing a5 and trying to put pressure on the opponent's weak pawns.]

28.Rf4 h5 29.Rb1 Rdg5 30.g3 Ra5 31.Rb4 Rg4 32.Kf2 Rxf4+ 33.gxf4 h4 34.c4 Bd7 35.Ke3 Kd6 36.Bc3 Ke6 37.h3 Bxa4µ

0–1

⚪️#156 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Malakhatko,V
🔸Khodashenas,M
🔸international fajr cup 2019

1.Nd5+!! [1.h5? Kg5=; 1.Ne2?! Ke5 2.Nf4²]

1...Ke5?! [1...Kg6 2.Kf4 Be6 3.Ke5 Bd7 4.Nf4+ Kh6 5.Kf6±]

2.h5 Be8?! [2...Be6 3.Ne7 Kf6 4.h6 Bf7 5.Nxf5±]

3.h6 Bg6 4.Nf4 Bh7 5.Nh3 f4+ 6.exf4++–

1–0

⚪️#157 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Rapport,R (2735)
🔸Shankland,S (2731)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 157
public poll

A) Nb1 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
@Sina_Sinax, Jonas, Gavin, @A_Wild_Richard, Sahil, Jaikrishnan, Atharva, Michael, Hansika, Daniel

B) N×d5 – 2
👍 14%
Nikhil, @FrozenBlade

C) Ne4 – 2
👍 14%
@Somebody_Sophia, @Armin41

👥 14 people voted so far.

⚪️#157 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Harikrishna,P (2726)
🔸Caruana,F (2828)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 157
public poll

A) g4 – 14
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 74%
@batonik107, @Shaysho, Jonas, Nikhil, Mieke, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Sahil, Jai, @marryjey, @Qwerty123Tseries, Michael, Hansika, Daniel

C) Be1 – 4
👍👍 21%
Hossein, Max, Gavin, @FrozenBlade

B) Ke2 – 1
👍 5%
@Armin41

👥 19 people voted so far.

Los Angeles, 2nd July 1963. The opening round of the 1st Piatigorsky Cup, which was held in the Embassy Room of the city's Ambassador Hotel.
The pairings were: Keres-Petrosian; Najdorf-Panno; Ólafsson-Gligorić & Reshevsky-Benko.

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🔸 Dan Heisman

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Amsterdam, 4th September 1954. The 11th Olympiad, Preliminary Group 'A', Round 1; the match USSR v. Finland.
Board 1: M. Botvinnik (URS) v. T. Salo (FIN)
Board 2: J. Vesterinen (FIN) v. V. Smyslov (URS)

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Max Euwe and his wife Caro Bergman in February 1948.
https://bit.ly/2HefQUU

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FIDE World Team Championship Round 1 (March, 5) pairing:

https://goo.gl/vRgeu9