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World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov, pictured in 1977.

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🔸XXV ProAm Copa Clarin Op Villa 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Flores,Di (2634)
⚫️Chiarot,C (2244)
🔸1-0
18.Bf4! [Activating the bishop with attack Black's queen.]

18...Qa8 19.Qf3! [△Ne4]

19...Red8 [¹19...Bxg5 20.Bxg5 h6 21.Bc1 Rcd8 22.Bb2 Nh7 23.a4! Rd7 24.a5± △c5]

20.Ne4 Be7 21.c5! [Another instructive move. After this move, Black's queen and bishop will be out of action for a long time and Black will suffer from a lack of space. Another benefit of this move is to establish an outpost in the territory of the opponent on the d6.]

21...Ba6 22.Bd6 Qb7 23.Qc3! [△b4]

23...Qd7 24.b4 Ng6 25.h4!‚ Bxd6 26.Nxd6 Rb8 27.Qf3 Bb5 28.h5+–
Pavel Ponkratov (2650) and Anastasia Bodnaruk (2389) are the 2019 Russian blitz champions. Congrats!
Levon Aronian beats Wang Hao to join Fabiano Caruana in the #IOMChess lead! They'll play in tomorrow's Round 8