🔸St Louis Winter A 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Hakobyan,Aram (2565)
⚫️Mikhalevski,V (2574)
🔸1-0

20.Rad1! [A finishing move. Black is completely helpless due to his back-rank weakness and his poor king's position.]

20...Bxf6™ [20...Rf8? 21.Qd3+– △Qh7]

21.Qxh6+ Kg8 22.Qxf6 Rf8 [22...Rd7 23.Nxf7! Qf4 24.Qg6+ Kf8 25.Ng5 Nd4 26.Rd3 Ke7 27.Rfd1 Qf6 28.Qh7+ Kd8 29.Ne4 Qe5 30.Qh4+ Kc7 31.Nf6 Rd8 32.Rxd4 Rxd4 33.Qxd4 Qxd4 34.Rxd4+–]

23.f4! [△Ne4]

23...e5 24.fxe5 Qb6 25.Rd6 Qa5 26.Nxf7+–

⚪️#178 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Muzychuk,M (2545)
🔸Wafa,Shahenda (2145)
🔸WCh Women 2018

17.g4!? [17.Be2! after this strong move, if Black keeps his king in the center, White can play f4–f5 and exploit the e8–h5 diagonal by the bishop and in case of ...0–0, White's rooks are connected for the attack. 17...g6 (17...Be7 18.Kb1) 18.Bd3 Nc5 (18...0–0 19.g3 Bxg3 (19...Be7 20.Rxh6+–) 20.Rxh6+–) 19.g4 Ne4 20.Qh2 Be7 21.Kb1 Qd7 22.f5 0–0–0 23.Nxb5 axb5 24.Bxe4 Qc7 25.Bf3 Bc5 26.Bd4 Bxd4 27.Rxd4 Bc6 28.Be2±; 17.Kb1 Nc5 18.Bd3 Be7 19.f5 Qc7 20.fxe6 Nxe6 21.Rdf1 Nxd4 (21...Qxe5 22.Nxe6 Qxe6 23.Re1 Qc6 24.Bd4+–) 22.Bxd4 Bc8 23.e6 Bxe6 24.Bxg7 Rg8 25.Bf6 0–0–0 26.a4 Rg4 27.Bxe7 Qxe7 28.axb5 axb5 29.Bxb5±]

17...g6 18.Bd3±

1–0

⚪️#178 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Vega Gutierrez,S (2389)
🔸Bodnaruk,A (2426)
🔸WCh Women 2018

33.Rf1 [33.Rxf8+! Nxf8 34.Rf1 Nh7 35.Rf7 Qg1+ 36.Bf1 Qd4+ 37.Qd2 Qxe4 38.Qg2 Qxg2 (38...Qd4+ 39.Bd3 Qa1+ 40.Ke2 Bg7 41.Qxg6 Qe5+ 42.Kf1+–) 39.Bxg2 g5 (39...Kg8 40.Bd5) 40.b4 Nf6 41.b5 Kg8 42.Ra7 g4 43.b6 h4 44.Ra8+ Kh7 45.b7 d5 46.b8Q Bxb8 47.Rxb8 h3 48.Bf1 Ne4 49.Ke2+–; 33.Bc4 Qg4+ 34.Kc1 Rxa8 35.Qxa8+ Kg7 36.Qa7+ Kh6 37.Bxe6 Bf4+! 38.Kb1 Qxe6 39.Qd4+/=]

33...Rxa8 34.Qxa8+ Kg7 35.Qc8 Nf4 36.b4 Qe7 37.b5 Qa7 38.Qc4 Ng2 39.Ke2 Qe3+ 40.Kd1 Qa7 41.Ke2 Qe3+ 42.Kd1

½–½

⚫️#179 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Galliamova,A (2432)
🔸Nakhbayeva,G (2367)
🔸WCh Women 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 179
public poll

B) Ng4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
@PouyaMO1360, Kavian, Gavin, Nikhil, @A_Wild_Richard, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, Kasyap

A) Nd7 – 5
👍👍👍👍 38%
@aadiib, M, @Sophia_Giraffe, Erdal, Matthew

C) b5
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚪️#179 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Hoang Thanh Trang (2448)
🔸Danielian,E (2426)
🔸WCh Women 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 179
public poll

A) Kc3 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 77%
@PouyaMO1360, farhad, Gavin, Nikhil, Babak, @A_Wild_Richard, @AryanLeekha, Hansika, @Nirvana9877, Kasyap

C) Kd3 – 2
👍 15%
@aadiib, @Sophia_Giraffe

B) Ke1 – 1
👍 8%
Masoud

👥 13 people voted so far.

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🔸St Louis Winter A 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Perelshteyn,E (2493)
⚫️Ali Marandi,C (2552)
🔸1-0

27.Qc3! [The only winning move that forces a simplification into a clearly winning endgame for White.]

[27.Qd3? Rd8! 28.Qe3 Ne6=]

27...Qf5 28.Rxe8+ Nxe8 29.Qc6! [△Qe4]

29...Kf8 30.Qe4 Qb5 31.Qd4+– [¹31.a4! △Rc8 31...Qd7™ 32.Qe5 f6 33.Qe4 f5 34.Qc6 Qe7 35.Rc3! Qh4 36.Re3 Qd8 37.Qb7 Nf6 38.Rc3+– △Rc8]

⚫️#179 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Galliamova,A (2432)
🔸Nakhbayeva,G (2367)
🔸WCh Women 2018

17...b5 [17...Ng4! In order to transfer the knight to the dream square on d3 via e5. 18.b3 (18.Bf1 b5 19.Be2 Nf6 20.e5 (20.f3 a5 21.Rxd8+ Kxd8 22.b4 a4µ) ) 18...Ne5 19.f4 Nd3 20.Rb1 Rd7 21.bxc4 Rhd8 22.Bf1 Nbc5 23.e5 Na4 24.Nxa4 Bxa4 25.Rxd3 Rxd3 26.Bxd3 Rxd3 27.Bb4 Kb7³; 17...Nd7 18.Be7 Rde8 19.Ba3 Ne5 (19...Rd8 20.Be7=) 20.Bf1! g5 21.b3=/+ /=]

18.b3 a5 19.Be7? [19.Rxd8+ Rxd8 20.e5 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 b4 22.exf6 gxf6 23.Bb2 bxc3 24.Rxc3 Nd6 25.Ba3²]

19...Rxd1+ 20.Nxd1 Nxe4?! [20...Kd7! 21.Bxf6 gxf6 22.bxc4 b4-/+]

21.a4!=/+

½–½