⚫️#269 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Gueci,Tea (2184)
🔸Sedina,E (2263)
🔸78th ch-ITA Women 2018

26...Bxf3! [26...Na5 27.Re1 Bxf3 28.gxf3 Rxf3 29.Nxd5 exd5 30.e6 Rg3+ 31.Kh1 Rxh3+ 32.Kg2 Rff3 33.e7 Rfg3+ 34.Kf2 Rf3+ 35.Kg1 Rfg3+=; 26...Bg6 27.Rf1 Kh7 28.Rf2 h5 29.Nf1 h4 30.Bc1 R4f5 31.Kh2=]

27.gxf3 Rxf3 28.Re1 Rg3+ 29.Kh2 [29.Ng2 Rxc3–+]

29...Rff3 30.Nxd5 Rxh3+ 31.Kg2 Rhg3+ 32.Kh2 exd5 33.e6 Rh3+ 34.Kg2 Rhg3+ 35.Kh2 Rxc3 36.e7 Nxe7 37.Bxe7 Rge3 38.Rxe3 Rxe3 39.Bd6 Re2+ 40.Kg3 Rxc2 41.a5 b5 42.a6 c3 43.Bc5 Rb2 44.Bxa7 c2 45.Rc1 b4 46.Bc5 b3 47.a7 Ra2

0–1

🔸TCh-BEL 2018–19
🔸Round 5
⚪️Van den Doel,E (2604)
⚫️Admiraal,M (2491)
🔸1-0

17.Qa4! [Trying to gain the initiative. White prepares the queenside castling and pins the black knight on d7.]

[17.gxf5?! exf5! 18.Qg2 f4 19.Bd2 0–0–0 20.0–0–0²]

17...Qb4 18.dxe6! [18.Qxb4!? Bxb4 19.dxe6 Nf8 20.Bb5+ Nc6 21.0–0–0 fxg4 22.Rd4!±]

18...Qxa4 19.Nxa4 Bb4+ 20.Ke2 Nf6 21.gxf5!± [△Bg2]

⚪️#270 (Strategy-ًWhite to Move)
🔸Santeramo,Alessia (2064)
🔸Raccanello,Marianna (2030)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 270
public poll

C) f4 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 58%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, @RahmaniArapardaz, Max, Majid, Louis, Hansika, @Kingbosskasyap

A) Na7 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍 42%
@Ako1983, @soheil_hooshdaran, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, Christian, Arianna

B) e×d5
▫️ 0%

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚪️#270 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Yao,Stefano (2360)
🔸Loiacono,Antonio (2293)
🔸78th ch-ITA Women 2018

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 270
public poll

B) R×e5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%
@Ako1983, Hadi, @RahmaniArapardaz, Nikhil, Majid, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, Louis, @AnuragisGreat

C) Bf1 – 5
👍👍👍👍 38%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Max, @soheil_hooshdaran, Hansika, @Kingbosskasyap

A) B×b7
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

Found this while browsing online recently. No date, place or credit stated.
The only one in the photo that I can identify with certainty is Semyon Furman (centre). From the look of him, this is perhaps the early 1950s. (It could perhaps be Vladimir Simagin on the right?!)

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“Too many times, people do not try their best. They do not have the keen spirit, the winning spirit. And once you make it you have got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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Wijk aan Zee, 20th January 1975. In round 6 of the Hoogovens tournament, Luben Popov (Bulgaria) is in play v. Lajos Portisch (Hungary). Soviet grandmaster Semyon Furman can be seen standing on the left.

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Rare Footage of the moment when Kasparov won the title in 1985 against Karpov with a result of 13 to 11 and managed to hold the title for 15 years.

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17-year-old WGM Annie Wang 🇺🇸 won Panamerican Junior U20 Championship in the open section competing with the boys.⚡️She gets a direct IM title and a GM norm.

The championship just ended in Bolivia. Results:
http://chess-results.com/tnr458944.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&turdet=YES&flag=30&fbclid=IwAR2IfLlYgw1zE42A6F5kOdsQUy8yMUOW83T9J6i4dQqfaIoKG3LDl_REfwQ

The Baadur Jobava juggernaut rolls on!!

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Baadur Jobava v Parham Maghsoodloo is a highly entertaining Sicilian brawl.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/abu-dhabi-masters-2019/6/1/1