Free day at #FIDEWomenCandidates is the time for side events: young players took part in the blitz tournament in the center of Kazan and attended a masterclass of GM Sergey Shipov.

⚪️#232 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Asadli,Vugar (2471)
🔸Suleymanli,Aydin (2313)
🔸Baku Open 2018

13.axb5?! [13.Bxe7! Attempting to exploit the weak dark squares in the opponent's camp. 13...Nxe7 14.Nce4 Bxe4 15.Nxe4 Nf5 16.axb5 0–0 (16...cxb5 17.d5±) 17.Bxc4 cxb5 18.Bd3 Qxd4 19.Ng5! Qxh4 20.Bxf5 exf5 (20...Qxg5 21.Be4+–) 21.f4 Nc6 22.e6±; 13.Bf3!? Bxg5 14.hxg5 bxa4 15.Nge4 0–0 16.Nxa4 Qd8 17.Nac5 Nd7 18.Nb7 Qc7 19.Nbd6 Rab8 20.Nxc4 Rb4 21.Ned6 h4 22.Rc1 Rfb8 23.Be4±]

13...Bxg5 14.hxg5 cxb5 15.Bf3 Nc6 [15...Nxc3? 16.bxc3 Nc6 17.Ne4 Bxe4 18.Bxe4 Rd8 19.Ra2! Nxe5 20.Qe2 Ng4 21.f3 Ne5 22.Rfa1±]

16.Bxd5 exd5 17.Nxd5 Qd8 18.Qf3+/=

1–0

⚪️#232 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Westerberg,J (2534)
🔸Brynell,S (2409)
🔸Bistro Stella 2018

38.Qf6! [38.g3? Qg4 39.Qc7 Qxh5 40.Qxa7 Qd1+ 41.Kh2 Kg6 42.Qxb6 Qd2 43.Kg2 Qd5+ 44.Kh2 Qd2=; 38.Qc7? Kg7 39.h6+ Kg6 40.Qxa7 Qb1+ 41.Kh2 Qd1 42.Qxb6 Qh5+ 43.Kg3 Qg5+ 44.Kh2 Qh5+=]

38...Kg8 39.h6? [39.Qd8+ Kg7 40.h6+! Kxh6 (40...Kh7 41.Qf6 Qg4 42.Qxf7+ Kxh6 43.Qxe6+ Kg7 44.Qd7+ Kf6 45.g3+–; 40...Kg6 41.Qh8 Qg4 42.Qg7+ Kh5 43.Qxg4+ Kxg4 44.h7) 41.Qf6+ Kh5 42.Qxf7+ Kh6 43.Qxa7 b5±]

39...Qg4 40.h7+ Kxh7 41.Qxf7+ Kh8 42.Qxe6 Qd1+ 43.Kh2 Qh5+ 44.Kg1

½–½

🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Shuvalova,Polina (2441)
⚫️Morozevich,A (2656)
🔸1-0

39.Bb5! [Now the knight has no reasonable squares to go to.]

[39.Qe8? Qd4+ 40.Kh1 Nc5! △N×d3 41.Re7+ Rxe7 42.Qxe7+ Kg8 43.Be8 Qh4+ 44.Kg1 Qd4+=]

39...Nc5? [¹39...Nb8™ would put up more resistance, although White's position is still much better after 40.Qe8! Rf7 41.Kh2 Qc7+ 42.Qe5+ Qxe5+ 43.Rxe5±]

40.Rc1! [△R×c5]

40...Qf6 41.Rxc5+–

⚪️#233 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Aleksandrov,A (2599))
🔸Babazada,Khazar (2269)
🔸Baku Open 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 233
public poll

B) Bb3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @fantastic45, S.f, Nikhil, Majid, Alexander, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, Atharva, PR

C) B×b6 – 2
👍👍 17%
@RahmaniArapardaz, @hosssein_G

A) b3 – 1
👍 8%
@A_Wild_Richard

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚫️#233 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Fier,A (2553)
🔸Suleymanli,Aydin (2313)
🔸Baku Open 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 233
public poll

C) Q×a2 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%
S.f, Nikhil, Alexander, @Sophia_Giraffe, Atharva, Michael

A) Qd5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 27%
Masoud, @oalways, Majid

B) Rc8 – 2
👍👍 18%
@fantastic45, @A_Wild_Richard

👥 11 people voted so far.

Round 2 of the Keres Memorial tournament in Tallinn (Estonian SSR), February 1977.
Among the pairings: Tal-Ornstein, Unzicker-Velimirović, Gipslis-Bronstein, Romanishin-Nei, Vadasz-Gulko.

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