🔸Baku Open 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Gasanov,E (2502)
⚫️Aleksandrov,A (2599)
🔸1-0

24...Ndf6?? [Black overestimates his attacking chances and allows White to win material.]

[Instead, he should have played for equality with 24...Bxd1! 25.Rcxd1 Rh5 26.h3 Qg5 27.Ne2 Rh6=]

25.f3! Rh5 26.h3™ Bxh3 27.gxh3 [27.Nxh3!? Ng5 28.f4!‚ Nxh3 29.Bxh5 Qxh5 30.gxh3 Qxh3+ 31.Kg1+–]

27...Ng5 28.f4!+– [Black has insufficient compensation for his material deficit.]

[28.h4!? Nd7 29.Rb3 c5 30.f4 Ne4 31.Bxh5+–]

⚪️#249 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Guliev,L (2312)
🔸Fier,A (2553)
🔸Baku Open 2018

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 249
public poll

B) Nf1 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 85%
Jonas, Majid, @blossom_75, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Srikar, @Qwerty123Tseries, @Sadeghi_SE, Matthew, @Vicky143, Sidney

A) Nf3 – 1
👍 8%
@Steve1234567890qwerty

C) b4 – 1
👍 8%
@sepehr_j7

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚪️#249 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Moroni,L (2559)
🔸Garcia Palermo,C (2391)
🔸78th ch-ITA 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 249
public poll

B) Rb3 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
Jonas, Nikhil, Majid, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Srikar, @abist10102008Qwerty, Sadeghi

A) Rb4 – 3
👍👍👍 23%
Mohammad, @Steve1234567890qwerty, Matthew

C) R×b6 – 2
👍👍 15%
اوین, @Vicky143

👥 13 people voted so far.

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Move of the day :

21...Bf3!! -+ (mate in 4 moves is inevitable) 0-1

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July 1 FIDE rating list is out:

After his great blitz performance at
Norway Chess
, Maxime Vachier Lagrave
is the new blitz #1 with 2948, while
Magnus Carlsen
is #2 with 2920.

In standard, Magnus Carlsen is far ahead with superb 2872.

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New phobia - having an uncastled king against Ding Liren 👻😱🕷

With a relentless attack, Ding brings
Yan Nepomniachtchi's to heel and wins a nice game! 👏

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