🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Rapid game 4
⚪️wesley So
⚫️Matthias Bluebaum
🔺1-0

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Rapid game 4
⚪️Anish Giri
⚫️Alexander Motylev
🔺1-0

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Rapid game 2
⚪️Alexander Grischuk
⚫️Jorge Cori
🔺1-0

🔹🔺 The interesting and tactical moments of the World Cup Round 2 Tie -Breaks 🔹🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 4
⚪️Samuel Sevian(2620)
⚫️Chao Li (2744)
🔺0-1

The American grandmaster blundered by playing:
1.Kc3?? Nd5+ 2.Kc4 Nb6+ 0-1

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 4
⚪️Etienne Bacrot (2715)
⚫️Xiangzhi Bu (2710)
🔺0-1

🔺Ng7??
White's blunder in an equal position allows black king to penetrate through e4. Correct continuation is 👇
1.Nf6! (with the idea of N.g4! and Kg5=)🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 4
⚪️ Radoslaw Wojtaszek(2745)
⚫️Alexander Onischuk (2682)
🔺0-1

🔺The uncommon move g4 has initially been played successfully by Garry Kasparov against Boris Spassky. The idea of this move is to launch an early attack to the kingside by playing Ng3 which also increases white's control over e4.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 5
⚪️Baadur Jobava (2687)
⚫️Yangyi yo (2744)
🔺1-0

🔺Jobava's interesting sacrifice came as a surprise:
1. N.f6! K.f6 2.d.e5 Kf7 3.e6!+ K.e6 4.e4 Ng7 5.Qa2+ Kd6 6.Rc1!
white has compensation for the material.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 5
⚪️Fabiano Caruana (2807)
⚫️Luka Lenic (2646)
🔺1-0

🔺Instead of the winning move Ra7 Caruana could finish off the game immediately by Rg5 and forced mate.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 3
⚪️Baskaran Adhiban(2677)
⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi (2751)
🔺½-½

🔺1.Rhf1
white has the upper hand after this move; however, he could have a decisive advantage after Nd8!!
1.Nd8!! R.d8 (B.d8 2.Re8#) 2.R.e7 Bc8 3.Q.d5! or b7 +-🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 3
⚪️Baskaran Adhiban(2677)
⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi (2751)
🔺½-½

Once more the decisive move Nd8 is ignored by the opponent of lucky Nepom!

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 2 Game 6
⚪️Wesley So (2810)
⚫️Matthias Bluebaum (2646)
🔺1-0

1...Qg5?? 2.Nf3 and R.e7

🔹#9
This is an important moment to choose a plan. The only open file is the d-file,whereas White can exert pressure along the half-open f-file. Moreover, White possesses the bishop pair, and the light squares may play an important role. 1.Qf1! A beautiful, multi functional move. White increases the pressure along the f-file, while the queen vacates the d1 -square for the queen's rook. In some cases, the queen can try to take the
black position under control from the beautiful c4-square. 🔹