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🔸Russian Championship Superfinal 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Volkov,Sergey (2645)
⚫️Riazantsev,Alexander (2650)
🔸0-1
📘 22.Qe1?? (Qd3=)
Volkov's suicide in an equal position.
22...Bd4+ 23.Kg2 Qg4+ 24.Kf1 Qh3+ 25.N×h3 B×h3# 0-1
🔸London Chess Classic 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Adams,Michael (2715)
⚫️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2789)
🔸½-½
📘 7.Ra3!
The art of prophylactic thinking! Adams prevents ...b7-b5.
🔸London Chess Classic 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Caruana,Fabiano (2799)
⚫️Anand,Viswanathan (2782)
🔸1-0
📘 A) 9.Ne2
An interesting idea by Caruana.
Ne2-->g4-->Ng3-->Nf5 then 0-0-0 and attacking on the kingside.
B)
Anand has played a different idea:
0-0-->Nd2-->Nc4-->N×d6 and eventually f4.
⚪️#155 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Tal,Mihail
🔸Bled 1961
📘 9.Be2!
Why prepare to fianchetto, and then develop the bishop to e2? because Circumstances changed with Tal's last move and Fischer is quick to adapt to the new environment. The bishop covers f3, as well as c4 while preparing Qd4.
9.Bg2 d6 10.Qd4 a6 11.0-0-0 axb5 12.Bxe5 Be7+/- Now if the bishop was on e2, white would take the b5 with the check!
9.Bg5? helping the knight on e5 from getting rid of the pin, is not a logical way.
⚪️#156 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Portisch,Lajos
🔸Havana ol (Men 1966
📘11.c4!
Black has two bishop advantage, so Fischer decides to close the position. In a single stroke, Fischer removes the fluidity from Black's queenside pawns, and secondly, fixes c5 as a stationary target.
Either 11.f4 or11.Be3 are faced with 11...c4!
⚫️#157(Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Agdestein,Simen (2575)
🔸Carlsen,Magnus (2675)
🔸NOR-ch playoff Oslo 2006
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 157

C: d5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%

B: d6 – 1
👍 11%

A: b6
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.
⚪️#158 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Carlsen,Magnus (2772)
🔸Radjabov,Teimour (2757)
🔸Nanjing Pearl 2009
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 158

A: Rfc1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%

B: Rac1 – 1
👍 11%

C: Nf3
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.
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The 13th round of the Hoogovens tournament, Beverwijk, January 1964. In the foreground Lajos Portisch is in play v. Paul Keres.

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Training camp, Armenia, 1979. Left to right: Artur Jussupow, Garry Kasparov, Lev Psakhis, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Klara Shagenovna Gasparian.

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The 1958 return match for the World Championship between Vasily Smyslov & Mikhail Botvinnik, which took place in the concert hall of the Hotel 'Sovietsky' in Moscow.

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