15...d5! [Sarana takes advantage of the situation and builds up the strong center.]

[If 15...0–0?! , then 16.Rfd1 Rc6 17.Rd2!² △Rad1]

16.Bg5 d4! [△R×c2]

17.Bxf6™ Bxf6 18.Rfd1 0–0! [Black does not hurry to exploit his positional advantage and consolidates his position first.]

[18...Qc6? 19.Ne4 0–0 20.c3 Rfd8 21.Rd3=]

19.g4 h6!-/+ [19...Rfd8!? 20.Rd3 Qc7! 21.Ne4 Qxc2 22.g5 Be7 23.f6 Bf8-/+]

⚫️#238 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gasanov,E (2502)
🔸Aleksandrov,A (2599)
🔸Baku Open 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 238
public poll

A) Qh5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
Nikhil, @BehroudR, Majid, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy

B) a5 – 3
👍👍👍👍 30%
@kord_sol, Nagaprasad, Jai

C) Rg6 – 2
👍👍👍 20%
@fantastic45, اوین

👥 10 people voted so far.

⚪️#238 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Al-Shamsi,Ousha (1429)
🔸Jalloul,M (1874)
🔸Emirates ch-Arab 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 238
public poll

B) Bd4 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 85%
@Jalalam_attar, Jonas, @shahriarmz88, Nikhil, @BehroudR, اوین, Nagaprasad, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Jai, Matthew, Florentino

A) f4 – 1
👍 8%
@SophiaCat_does_Chess

C) Kf1 – 1
👍 8%
@fantastic45

👥 13 people voted so far.

According to Stockfish the player who had the lowest number of blunders was Capablanca only 0.44% of his moves were blunders.
Bobby Fischer basically had the same result.

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"A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!"

🔸 Savielly Tartakower

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A Russian spectator lady trying very hard to make eye contact with Capablanca during a February 1935 simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad.

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Facts about new FIDE Women's Championship Challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina 🇷🇺:

✅ She is 20 years old.
✅ Her father Yuri is a FIDE Master and her first coach.
✅ She is at her peak rating right now (2537 in June 2019).

✅ Goryachkina is currently #8 rated women in the world.
✅ She won her first gold medal at the girls under 10 world championship in 2008.
✅ In 2013, she finished 2nd in Russian U19 Open championship competing with boys.
✅ She is 2-times Russian Women’s Champion (2015, 2017).
✅ In 2018 Goryachkina became a grandmaster.
✅ She has a slight fear of darkness and closed space.
✅ She likes detective series and movies.

The last free day at #FIDEWomenCandidates: a large simultaneous display on 50 boards took place on pedestrian Bauman street. Children and senior players faced GMs Alisa Galliamova, Sergey Shipov, and Evgeny Miroshnichenko.

Congratulations to Vladislav Artemiev on winning the Poikovsky tournament after squeezing out a 6-hour win over Fedoseev in the final game! At 2760.6 he's now world no. 11 on the live ratings