⚪️#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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"Do not calculate complicated lines before you are absolutely sure it is necessary."

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Havana, 26th Aug 1965. Ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov is pictured in play v. Bobby Fischer in the 2nd round of the Capablanca Memorial.
The American's moves were famously transmitted via telex, as he had been unable to obtain a visa.

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Robert James Fischer 🆚 Vasily Smyslov

Havana (1965), Havana CUB, rd 2, Aug-26
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Anderssen Variation (C77) ·

1-0

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I can see Tal's confidence and he is determined to win ... 😎

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The Group A of the 2019 #SummerChessClassic, held from 18-28 June in the St. Louis Chess Club, features Polish GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2729) as top seed fighting for the $12000 first prize.

#FIDEWomenCandidates Round 7 results:
🇷🇺 Kosteniuk 1/2-1/2 A. Muzychuk 🇺🇦
🇷🇺 Goryachkina 1/2-1/2 M. Muzychuk 🇺🇦
🇷🇺 Lagno 1/2-1/2 Dzagnidze 🇬🇪
🇷🇺 Gunina 1-0 Tan Zhongyi 🇨🇳

Aleksandra Goryachkina leads the event with 5,5/7, 1,5 ahead of Dzagnidze & Lagno.