Time for some updates on Carlsen's performance in 2019:
🥇 Performance rating: 2925
🎖 Score: 74,1 % (+14 =15 -0)
🏆 Performance with white: 3016 (+8 =5 -0)
🏅 Performance with black: 2860 (+6 =10 -0)

Leading by 1 point with 2 games to go. Caruana second

GM Fabiano Caruana won in the seventh round of the GRENKE Chess Classic against GM Arkadij Naiditsch #GRENKEchess.

Georg Meier after His Win Against Anand | GRENKE Chess Classic 2019 chess interview

🔸12th Kings Rapid 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Nisipeanu,LD (2674)
⚫️Parligras,M (2645)
🔸1-0

24.Nxe4! [Exchanging the pieces favors the side playing against the isolated pawn.]

24...Rxe4 [24...dxe4?! 25.f5 Rh6™ 26.g3 Qc6 27.Rc1 Qd7 28.Qg4 f6 29.Kg2+/=]

25.Qf3 Qf5 26.Rf2 h5 27.Rfd2 Bb4 28.Rd3! Rc6? [28...h4! 29.Kh1 h3 30.gxh3 Re7 31.Ba1! △R×d5 31...Qe4 32.Qxe4 Rxe4 33.Rc1+/=]

29.Bxg7! [The coordination of White's pieces causes this beautiful combination.]

29...Kxg7? [¹29...Bc5 30.Be5 Qg4 31.Rf1±]

30.Rxd5 Qh7 31.Rxh5 Rh6 32.Qg4+! Kf8 33.Rd8+! Ke7 34.Qh4++–

⚪️#201 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Iljiushenok,I (2533)
🔸Maletina,Tatiana (2270)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

20.Bxc6 [Temporarily keeping the light-squared bishop on the board, would give White better chances to put more pressure on the opponent's camp. 20.Bc4! Rd8 21.0–0 Kc8 22.a4 Bd5 23.f5 Bxc4 24.Qxc4 Bd6 25.Nf2 Bc7 26.Nxe4±; 20.c4? Nb4 21.Bxc6 Qxc6 22.0–0 f5 23.Be3 Bg7 24.Rad1 Rad8 25.a3 Nd3µ]

20...Qxc6 21.f5+/=

⚪️#201 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Iljiushenok,I (2533)
🔸Yudin,S (2507)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

40.Rd7? [40.Nc8+! Bxc8 (40...Kb8 41.Nd6+ Kc7 42.Nxb7 Rf4! 43.Rh8 Kxb7 44.Rxh5 Rxf3 45.a4+–) 41.Rxc8 Kb6 42.Rh8±; 40.Rf8? Rc4 41.Rh8 Rc7 42.Nf5 Bxf3 43.Nd4 Be4 44.Kc1 Rc5 45.Kd2 Bg6 46.c3 Rg5 47.Ke3 Rg4„]

40...Rf4 41.Nc8+ Kb8 42.Nd6 Bxf3 43.Rxf7

½–½

⚪️#202 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kokarev,Dm (2598)
🔸Sjugirov,S (2663)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 202
public poll

B) Nd5 – 15
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
@niimaebrahimi, @mahyarebrahimi1983, عباس, Gavin, Nikhil, @YaminiG, @Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, @AryanLeekha, Atharva, on the run faster then…, Ismail, @Miladdark79, Hansika, Pravin, Kasyap

A) a3
▫️ 0%

C) Na4
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

⚫️#202 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Morozevich,A (2656)
🔸Iljiushenok,I (2533)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 202
public poll

A) Qb5 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 82%
عباس, @Zamani9899, Nikhil, @Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard, @AryanLeekha, Ismail, Hansika, Kasyap

B) Rb5 – 2
👍👍 18%
Gavin, @YaminiG

C) Ra2
▫️ 0%

👥 11 people voted so far.

Sokolniki Park, Moscow, USSR, early 1980s. Future grandmasters Aleksei Dreev and Aleksei Vyzhmanavin play 'blitz' (5-minute chess), surrounded by spectators.

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"What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I completely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit."

🔸 David Bronstein

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Here we see Fischer and Ivkov playing a skittles game before the 1966 Piatigorsky cup.
Can you name rest of the players?

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