📘 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+/=
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+/=
📘 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!
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!
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 167
A: d5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%
B: Qc7 – 1
👍 8%
C: c5 – 1
👍 8%
👥 12 people voted so far.
A: d5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%
B: Qc7 – 1
👍 8%
C: c5 – 1
👍 8%
👥 12 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 168
B: Qd2 – 16
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
A: B×d5 – 1
▫️ 6%
C: Bf3 – 1
▫️ 6%
👥 18 people voted so far.
B: Qd2 – 16
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 89%
A: B×d5 – 1
▫️ 6%
C: Bf3 – 1
▫️ 6%
👥 18 people voted so far.
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🌸 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)
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♦️ 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.
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♦️ 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.
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🔸Round 9
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♦️ Dutch chess Grandmaster
♦️ Yesterday was birthday of Jan Timman
💢 Full name Jan Hendrik Timman
💢 Country Netherlands
💢 Born 14 December 1951 (age 65) Amsterdam, The Netherlands
💢 Title Grandmaster (1974)
💢 FIDE rating 2562 (December 2017)
💢 Peak rating 2680 (January 1990)
♦️ Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West".
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♦️ Jan Timman
♦️ Dutch chess Grandmaster
♦️ Yesterday was birthday of Jan Timman
💢 Full name Jan Hendrik Timman
💢 Country Netherlands
💢 Born 14 December 1951 (age 65) Amsterdam, The Netherlands
💢 Title Grandmaster (1974)
💢 FIDE rating 2562 (December 2017)
💢 Peak rating 2680 (January 1990)
♦️ Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West".
Review one of Timman's best game: 👇🏼👇🏼
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🔹 KRO Match (1985), Hilversum NED, rd 3, Dec-17
🔹 Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Smyslov-Breyer-Zaitsev Hybrid (C93)
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