📕 22.g4!
A very strong move to restrict Black bishop. A pawn move of this type doesn't dazzle us like a storming piece sacrifice or an 'acrobatic' piece maneuver.On the other hand, it plays a vital role in the defeat of the strongest ever Grandmaster of the former East Germany. You should try to find these quiet, unobtrusive pawn moves in your own games as they are the hallmark of positional understanding.

⚪️#206 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2729)
🔸Aronian,Levon (2756)
🔸Turin ol (Men 2006

📕 17.Bxd7!
Kramnik loves the bishop pair, but he is astute enough to know when it should be renounced in favor of a more definite positional edge. 17...Rxd7 18.Nd5! Nxd5 19.cxd5 Structurally speaking, it is the black pawns which are the more compact mass, being divided into only two clusters or 'islands', In contrast, the white pawns are split into three islands, including an isolated pawn on d5 and doubled pawns on the f-file. But when we forget about structure and think about dynamics, we see that the 'scruffy' white pawn on d5 is working hard for the white pieces in providing an outpost for the rook on c6. Meanwhile, the 'neat and tidy' black pawns aren't doing any work; on the contrary, the pawn on e7 is a target.

⚪️#207 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Pelletier,Y
🔸Sebag,M
🔸French Team Championship, 2007

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 207

B: Ne1 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%

A: Ne3 – 1
👍 13%

C: g3 – 1
👍 13%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#208 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kasparov,G
🔸Beliavsky,A
🔸Moscow 1983

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 208

B: Kf2 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 87%

A: a5 – 2
👍 13%

C: Nc4
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

The participants in the 1978 USSR Young Masters' Championship, which took place in Vilnius 40 years ago this month.

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40 years ago this month - the opening Hoogovens tournament at Wijk aan Zee, January 20th, 1978. Viktor Korchnoi faces Genna Sosonko; in the background, Ulf Andersson faces Jan Timman.

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Kasparov vs Kamsky , Linares 1993.

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" Gata Kamsky " Linares 1993

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🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Bacrot,Etienne (2725)
⚫️Bocharov,Dmitry (2583)
🔸1-0

🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Ivanchuk,Vassily (2726)
⚫️Vidit,Santosh Gujrathi (2715)
🔸0-1

🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 ChessGrandmaster


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🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 ChessGrandmaster


♦️ Boris Abramovich Gelfand is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.
A six-time World Championship Candidate, he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him Challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.

♦️Full property of Gelfand:👇🏼👇🏼

🔹Full name: Boris Abramovich Gelfand
🔹Country: Soviet Union Israel
🔹Born: 24 June 1968 (age 50) Minsk, Belarussian SSR, Soviet Union
🔹Title: Grandmaster (1989)
🔹FIDE rating: 2697 (January 2018)
🔹Peak rating: 2777 (November 2013)
🔹Ranking: No. 46 (December 2017)
🔹Peak ranking: No. 3 (July 1990)

♦️ Gelfand's chess career: 👇🏼👇🏼

🔹 IM (1987)
🔹GM (1989)
🔹Soviet Junior Champion (1985)
🔹European Junior Champion (1989)
🔹Olympiad Gold Medalist (1990)
🔹World Cup winner (2009)
🔹Candidate (1991, 1994, 2002 (Dortmund - PCA), 2007, 2011 and 2013)
🔹World Championship Challenger (2012)

♦️ In 1998 Gelfand won the 35th Rubinstein Memorial - Polanica-Zdroj POL ....
One of Gelfand's games from this international tournament against Alexey Shirov 👇🏼👇🏼

♦️ Chess Informant Best Games:👇🏼👇🏼

▪️ Boris Gelfand vs Alexey Shirov
▪️ Rubinstein Memorial 35th (1998), Polanica-Zdroj POL, rd 4, Aug-20
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)

♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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