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🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Djukic,Nikola (2519)
⚫️Giri,Anish (2762)
🔸½-½
📘 12...Nf8
To kick the bishop out of g5 and play h4 afterwards!
13.a5
(13.B×f6 B×f6 14.Rfd1 Be7 15.Nd5 h4 16.Nec3 1/2-1/2 Kramnik,V (2809) -Giri,A (2771) London 2016)
13...N8h7 14.Be3 h4
🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Maze,Sebastien (2614)
⚫️Nabaty,Tamir (2661)
🔸½-½
📘 12...Nh7!?
With the typical plan of piece attack on the kingside by Qf6, Nf4, and Ng5.
The alternative is 12...c6 planning Qc7, Be6, Rad8, Rfe8 and d5 at an appropriate moment.
🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Steingrimsson,Hedinn (2576)
⚫️Mchedlishvili,Mikheil (2604)
🔸0-1
📘 15.Ra2!
A typical maneuver in this pawn structure which is named after Botvinnik. This structure is common in Rubinstein, and Saemisch variations of Nimzo Indian defence.
15...Nc4 16.Re2
And after preparations, white will mobilize his center by e4 or launch an attack on kingside by h4.
🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2791)
⚫️Svetushkin,Dmitry (2556)
🔸1-0
📘Two times world junior champion has sharp combinational vision!
21.N×e4 d×e4 22.N×b5! a×b5 23.Rd7 Qc4 24.R×b7 +-
Threatening 25.e6 f5 26.Bxf5
🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Markus,Robert (2644)
⚫️Bauer,Christian (2647)
🔸1-0
📘 16.Na2!
In stonewall, e5 is the Achilles' heel of black! White maneuvers the knight to d3 to play Nfe5 and f3, e4 afterwards.
🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Maze,Sebastien (2614)
⚫️Indjic,Aleksandar (2591)
🔸1-0
📘 11...Qb8!?
to defend d6 and play Bd8-b6.
Giri has also played this uncommon move in 2017.
🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Ftacnik,Lubomir (2546)
⚫️Pancevski,Filip (2489)
🔸0-1
📘 11...Kh8!?
A novelty. 11...h6 is the common move here. The idea of Kh8 is to play Rg8, and Qf8 to exchange the bad bishop. If white plays Qd2, black can consider h6, Nh5, and f5 to start an attack on the kingside.
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🔸Iranian Championship semi-final 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Ramezani,Mahan (2056)
⚫️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2456)
🔸1-0
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🔸Iranian Championship semi-final 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2563)
⚫️Hamidi,Amir Mohammad (2185)
🔸1-0
⚫️#95 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Smyslov,Vassily
🔸Spassky,Boris
🔸Moscow 1973
📕 20...f5 may seem ok to you, but fails to the intermediate move h6:
21.h6! Qh8 22.ef5 gf5 23.Qe3! fg4 24.Qg5+ Kf7 25.Qe7+ and Qxc7+-
20...Bxg4?! unnecessarily gives up two bishops.
Considering the dynamic factors, 20...gxh5! is the correct move. After 21.Ne3 Bg4 or 21.Nxf6+ Kh8 black is ok.
⚪️#96 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tal,Mihail
🔸Botvinnik,Mikhail
🔸Moscow 1960