⚪️#229 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Botvinnik
🔸Alekhine
🔸The Netherlands, 1938

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 229

B: N×d5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 77%

C: Ne5 – 3
👍👍 23%

A: a4
▫️ 0%

👥 13 people voted so far.

⚪️#230 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Huebner
🔸Ivkov
🔸Germany, 1975

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 230

A: Qg5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%

C: N×d4 – 5
👍👍👍👍 33%

B: Rc4
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

European Junior Championship, Groningen, 27th December 1967. The eventual winner, Anatoly Karpov (USSR) faces Heinz Schaufelberger (Switzerland). Max Euwe makes the ceremonial first move.

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Boris Spassky vs Miguel Najdorf ,Buenos Aires 1979.

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Savielly Tartakower interviewing Paul Keres after winning the AVRO tournament 1938. Tartakower won in 1949 at Beverwijk, Paul Keres (shared with Iivo Nei) in 1964 also at Beverwijk.

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Iivo Nei, winner at the Hoogovens tournament, Beverwijk, 1964.

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🔸3rd IIFL Wealth Mumbai 2018
🔸Round 7
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2570)
⚫️Deepan Chakkravarthy J (2473)
🔸1-0

🔸Andranik Margaryan Memorial 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Minasian,Artashes (2484)
⚫️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2572)
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💢 Alexander Khalifman
💢 Russian chess grandmaster

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💢 Alexander Khalifman
💢 Russian chess grandmaster


♦️ Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman is a Russian chess grandmaster.
He was FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999.


▪️ Full name: Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman
▪️ Country: Soviet Union Russia
▪️ Born: 18 January 1966 (age 52) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ World Champion: 1999–2000 (FIDE)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2614 (January 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2702 (October 2001)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 12 (January 2003)

♦️ Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman, born in Leningrad, was taught chess by his father when he was six years old. He achieved the IM title in 1986 and became a GM at the New York Open in 1990. He is best known for becoming FIDE World Champion in 1999 by winning a knockout tournament in Las Vegas. He lost the title in the next knockout, held the following year in New Delhi. Viswanathan Anand eliminated him in the quarterfinals.

♦️ Khalifman's other successes include the Russian Championship of 1996 and first place in Essent 2000 with 5.5 points out of 6. In 2010 he came =1st (2nd on count back) with 7/9 in the Minsk Open in Belarus, and won the International Bavarian Open in Bad Wiessee in Germany with 7.5/9 (+6 =3). He came 4th at the Aeroflot Open (2012) with 6/9.

♦️ Alexander Khalifman have written several books which one of the most important of his books is "Openings series for white and black [According to champion's games]" content about 20 volumes.

♦️ A memorial games by Khalifman against Almasi which played in Spanish, Marshal Attack!!

▪️ Zoltan Almasi vs Alexander Khalifman
▪️ Ubeda (1997), Ubeda ESP, rd 3, Feb-??
▪️ Spanish Game: Marshall Attack. Modern Variation (C89)

♦️ Review and download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼

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▪️ Zoltan Almasi vs Alexander Khalifman
▪️ Ubeda (1997), Ubeda ESP, rd 3, Feb-??
▪️ Spanish Game: Marshall Attack. Modern Variation (C89)

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▪️ Zoltan Almasi - Alexander Khalifman, Ubeda (1997)
▪️ PGN format

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🔹 Today Tata Steel 2018 , Round 6 will played
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🔸Andranik Margaryan Memorial 2018
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2570)
⚫️Moiseenko,Vadim (2554)
🔸1-0

📘 54...Kf7??
There are three reasons that the Black king has been placed in an improper position:
1- The f-file has blocked for the Black rook.
2- Black will also lose a tempo with the sequence e6.
3- The king moves away from h6-pawn and gives a tactical opportunity to the opponent.
[54...Kg7!
A)55.Ra8 Rf4! 56.e6 Rf8=
B)55.e6 Rh3 56.d4 Re3 57.Kd6 g4 = ]
55.Rh8! Rh3
(55...Kg7 56.e6! +-)
56.e6 Kf6 57.Rf8+ Ke7 58.Rf7+ Ke8 59.d4 g4 60.Rh7 Kf8 61.e7+ 1-0