🔸London Chess Classic 2017
🔸Round 7
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2760)
⚫️Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime (2789)
🔸0-1

📘 26...Qc8!
With the idea of Bd8-b6, activating the bishop.

⚪️#165 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2772)
🔸Van Wely,Loek (2700)
🔸Corus Wijk aan Zee 2001

📘 23.Rxc8!
Kramnik gives the open file away because he has a simple plan: promote his d-pawn. So in giving away the c-file he actually misplaces Black's rook, which needs to keep watch over White's soon-to-be surging passer.
23.Bg5 Re8+ 24.Kf1 h6 25.d6 (25.Be3 Nc4=/+) 25...Rxc1 26.Bxc1 Rd8=
23.Ng5? Nc4+/=

⚫️#166 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Topalov,Veselin (2711)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2802)
🔸Dortmund SuperGM 2001

📘 41...a5!
A multi-purpose move: 1. Black evades Nxa7.2. Black prevents b3-b4 and fixes a pawn target on b3.3. Black frees his own knight for ...Nd4 to go after White's pawns.
41...Nd4? 42.Nxa7 Nxb3 43.Nc8=
41...Kf5 42.Nd6+ Ke6 43.Nb5 Now, the position is returned to the initial situation and black can still go for ...a5!

⚫️#167 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Ivanchuk,Vassily (2711)
🔸Kasparov,Garry (2838)
🔸RUS-The World Moscow 2002

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 167

A: d5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%

B: Qc7 – 1
👍 8%

C: c5 – 1
👍 8%

👥 12 people voted so far.

⚪️#168 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Ivanchuk,Vassily (2779)
🔸Romanov,Evgeny (2624)
🔸RUS-chT Olginka 2011

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 168

B: Qd2 – 16
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%

A: B×d5 – 1
▫️ 6%

C: Bf3 – 1
▫️ 6%

👥 18 people voted so far.

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Remarkable 1928 footage of Efim Bogoljubow and Max Euwe.
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The participants of The Hague-Moscow World Championship of 1948 (from left to right): Euwe, Smyslov, Keres, Botvinnik and Reshevsky

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♦️ Natalia Pogonina
♦️Russian Woman Grandmaster

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♦️ Natalia Pogonina
♦️ Russian Woman Grandmaster

🌸 Full name Natalia Andreevna Pogonina
🌸 Country Russia
🌸 Born 9 March 1985 (age 32) ; Vladivostok, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🌸 Title Woman Grandmaster
🌸 FIDE rating 2469 (December 2017)
🌸 Peak rating 2508 (July 2014)

♦️ Natalia Andreevna Pogonina is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. She is the runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship 2015.
♦️ Pogonina was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2012 and 2014, and at the 2011 Women's European Team Chess Championship.

♦️ A memorable recent game of Natalia Pogonina👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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♦️ Valentina Gunina vs Natalia Pogonina
♦️ Russian Superfianls (Women) (2017), St Petersburg RUS, rd 9, Dec-12
♦️ Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (C45)

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♦️ Valentina Gunina vs Natalia Pogonina
♦️ Russian Superfianls (Women) (2017), St Petersburg RUS, rd 9, Dec-12
♦️ PGN format

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🔸70th ch-RUS 2017
🔸Round 9
⚪️Dubov,Daniil (2683)
⚫️Malakhov,V (2686)
🔸0-1