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⚫️#202 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Morozevich,A (2656)
🔸Iljiushenok,I (2533)
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27...Qb5?! [27...Rb5! 28.Qh6 Nb4 29.Qxh3 Nd3 30.Qg2 Ne5 31.Be3 Rb3 32.f4 Rxe3 33.fxe5 Qe8 34.Qd5 Rxe5 35.Qc4 Qe7 36.Rf4 Kg7–+; 27...Ra2?! 28.Qxc5 Qxc5 29.Bxc5 Rg2+ 30.Kh1 Rc2 31.Ba7 g5-/+]

28.Qxc5 Qxc5 29.Bxc5 Rg2+ 30.Kh1 Rd2 31.Kg1 Rg2+

½–½

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⚫️#203 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Kryakvin,D (2588)
🔸Ponkratov,P (2630)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018

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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 203
public poll

A) b5 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
عباس, Jonas, Nikhil

B) Qf6 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
Dariush, @Sophia_Giraffe, @A_Wild_Richard

C) b6
▫️ 0%

👥 6 people voted so far.

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⚪️#203 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Sarana,A (2618)
🔸Demidov,M (2520)
🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 201

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Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 203
public poll

C) Kh5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
عباس, Jonas, Nikhil, @raienr, Farshid, @A_Wild_Richard, Michael

A) Ra7 – 3
👍👍👍 25%
Dariush, @SophiaCat_dotcom_slash_ChessCat, Mohan

B) c4 – 2
👍👍 17%
saadat, Isaac

👥 12 people voted so far.

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https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-grenke-chess-classic-round-8

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Grenke Chess Classic: Carlsen Checkmates Svidler; Caruana Still In the Race

Magnus Carlsen goes into the final round of the Grenke Chess Classic with a one-point lead. He checkmated Peter Svidler on Sunday but Fabiano Caruana also won his game and so the American GM still has a chance to tie for first and force a playoff. The final…

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Razor Sharp Magnus | Impressions Round 8 | GRENKE Chess Classic 2019

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Four photos of encounters that made it into Fischer's '60 Memorable Games'.
Petrosian-Fischer, Portorož Interzonal 1958 (½-½).
Smyslov-Fischer, Candidates, Belgrade 1959 (0-1).
Walther-Fischer, Zürich 1959 (½-½).
Fischer-Geller, Bled 1961 (1-0).

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Four photos of encounters that made it into Fischer's '60 Memorable Games'. Petrosian-Fischer, Portorož Interzonal 1958 (½-½). Smyslov-Fischer, Candidates, Belgrade 1959 (0-1). Walther-Fischer, Zürich 1959 (½-½). Fischer-Geller, Bled 1961 (1-0). @UnityChess

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"There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around."

🔸 Vishy Anand

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https://www.chess.com/blog/introuble2/solving-some-of-the-platov-brothers-endgame-studies

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Solving some of the Platov brothers endgame studies...

The photo has nothing to do directly with the Platov brothers. I've just tracked it while searching and thought it fits. Like setting positions and solving problems and studies from a book, in an old way. Anyway... Vassily & Mikhail Platov, via wikicommons…

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https://en.chessbase.com/post/vlastimil-hort-pricao-mi-gliga

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Hort stories: "Pricao mi Gliga..."

During the 1950s and 1960s Svetozar Gligoric was one of the world's best players and the Yugoslavian number one. Gligoric was also happily married, a successful journalist and writer, and had fought for the Yugoslavian partisans during World War II. Vlastimil…