⚫️#160 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Shankland,S (2731)
🔸Rapport,R (2735)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

22...Bxe3! [Of course, Rapport doesn't allow White to plant his knight on the d5–outpost.]

[22...b4 23.c4 (23.Nd5=) 23...Bxe3 24.Qxe3 Rb6 25.b3 Qc5 26.Ra2 Qxe3 27.fxe3 Rcc6 28.Rca1=; 22...Qc6? 23.Nd5±]

23.Qxe3 Rb6 24.Qd3 Qc4 25.Rd1 Rcc6 26.g3 Rxa6 27.Rxa6 Rxa6 28.Kg2 Qxd3 29.Rxd3 Kf8 30.Rd5 Rb6-/+

½–½

⚫️#160 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Shankland,S (2731)
🔸Rapport,R (2735)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

49...Rb1? [49...a3! 50.Rxf5+ Ke6 51.Ra5 Kd6 52.Ra7 Kc5 53.Rxg7 Rb5 54.f5 Rb4+ 55.Kg3 Kb6 56.Rg8 Ra4 57.Rb8+ Kc7 58.Rb1 a2 59.Ra1 Kd6–+; 49...Ra3? 50.Ra6+ Kf7 51.Rf6+ Ke7 52.Re6+ Kf8 53.Rf6+ Kg8 54.Rf8+ Kh7 55.Rh8+=]

50.Ra6+ Kf7 51.Ra7+ Ke6 52.Rxa4 Rh1+ 53.Kg3 Rxh5 54.Ra6+ Kd5 [54...Kf7 55.Ra7+ Kg6 56.Ra6+ Kh7 57.Ra1 g5 58.Ra7+ Kg6 59.Ra6+ Kf7 60.Ra7+ Ke6 61.Ra6+ Kd5 62.Ra5+ Ke4 63.Ra4+ Kd3 64.Ra3+ Kc2 65.fxg5 hxg5 66.Ra5=]

55.Ra5+ Kd4 56.Ra4+ Kd3 57.Ra3+ Kc4 58.Ra4+ Kb5 59.Ra1 g6 60.Rc1 Kb6 61.Ra1 g5 62.fxg5 hxg5 63.Rf1 g4 64.Kf4 Kc5 65.Rd1 Kc4 66.Rd8 Kc3 67.Rd7 Kc2 68.Rd8 Rh7 69.Kxf5 Rg7 70.Kf6 g3 71.Kxg7 g2 72.Rc8+ Kd2 73.Rd8+ Ke2 74.Re8+ Kf2 75.Rf8+ Kg3 76.Rf6 g1Q 77.Rg6+ Kf2 78.Rxg1 Kxg1

½–½

⚪️#161 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Navara,D (2738)
🔸So,W (2765)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 161
public poll

A) f3 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 85%
عباس, Jonas, Max, Gavin, @A_Wild_Richard, Sahil, Atharva, Michael, Hansika, Matthew, Kasyap

B) Rc1 – 1
👍 8%
@mahyarebrahimi1983

C) Rd3 – 1
👍 8%
@Somebody_Sophia

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚪️#161 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Moroni,L (2567)
🔸Wei Yi (2733)
🔸Aeroflot Open A Moscow RUS 2019

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 161
public poll

A) e3 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@M_L_110213, عباس, Masoud, Jonas, Gavin, @Somebody_Sophia, @A_Wild_Richard, Sahil, Hansika, Pravin, Matthew, Kasyap

B) Rc1 – 3
👍👍 19%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Max, Atharva

C) Nd4 – 1
👍 6%
Michael

👥 16 people voted so far.

Born on this day, 9th March, in 1943 - the 11th World Chess Champion, Bobby Fischer.

@UnityChess

#BobbyFischer

🔸 Bobby Fischer
🔸 Eleventh World Chess Champion
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess

✴️ About BobbyFischer

🔸 Bobby Fischer
🔸 Eleventh World Chess Champion

🔰Bobby Fischer was a record-setting chess master who became the youngest player to win the U.S. Chess Championship at 14, and the first American-born player to win the World Chess Championship.

🔰 Bobby Fischer was born on March 9, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. Fischer first learned the game of chess at age 6 and eventually became the youngest international grand master at the age of 15. In 1972, he became the first American-born world chess champion after defeating Boris Spassky. An eccentric genius, who was believed to have an I.Q. of 181, Fischer became known for his controversial public remarks in his later years. He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005, following legal trouble with the United States. He died on January 17, 2008.

🔰 Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a brilliancy known as "The Game of the Century".
SOURCE: BIOGRAPHY.COM / WIKIPEDIA


♦️ A memorable game by Bobby Fischer:👇
▪️ Robert James Fischer vs Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
▪️ Bled (1961), Bled YUG, rd 18, Sep-30
▪️ Caro-Kann Defense: Karpov Variation (B17)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess

▪️ Robert James Fischer - Tigran Petrosian, Bled 1961
▪️ PGN format
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess

Amsterdam, 4th September 1954. The 11th Olympiad, Preliminary Group 'D', Round 1; the match England v. Belgium.
Board 1: C. H. O'D. Alexander (ENG) v. A. O'Kelly (BEL)
Board 2: A. Dunkelblum (BEL) v. J. Penrose (ENG)

@UnityChess

In a November 3, 1934 speech at the Ealing Chess Club, Emanuel Lasker reportedly brought the house down with these words: "Chess was as universal as love but it had been said that the passion for chess has an advantage over the passion for love in that it lasted longer."

@UnityChess

“Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.”

🔸 Mikhail Tal

@UnityChess

Halfway through the #WTCC2019 with Russian leading solely with 9/10 points.
Round 5 saw only one draw: England vs India. Congrats to the winning teams:
Egypt🇪🇬 1,5-2,5 🇸🇪Sweden
China🇨🇳 2,5-1,5 🇮🇷Iran
England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2-2 🇮🇳India
Kazakhstan🇰🇿 1-3 🇷🇺Russia
Azerbaijan🇦🇿 3-1 🇺🇸USA