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🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Anand,Viswanathan (2767)
⚫️Matlakov,Maxim (2718)
🔸1-0
📘 16...N×g3!
Very accurate calculation and strong dynamic play by Matlakov.
17.h×g3 g4 18.Nh4 a×b5 19.a×b5 B×f2+ 20.K×f2 R×a1 21.Q×a1 N×c2 22.Qa4 Qf6+ 23.Kg1 Nd4 =
🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Adhiban,Baskaran (2655)
⚫️Carlsen,Magnus (2834)
🔸0-1
📘 White has the idea of Kf1 and bring the king closer to stop black connected passed pawns.
Carlsen prevents this plan beautifully.
32...Be6! 33.Kf1 Rc8! 34.R×c8 B×c8 35.Ke2 Ba6+ 36.Kf3 d3 0-1
🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Giri,Anish (2752)
⚫️Kramnik,Vladimir (2787)
🔸1-0
📘 28...Nd7?
Kramnik has made a blunder in a difficult position.
(28...Ra3 29.Rb1 Kg6 30.Rb7 Qe8 31.Q×e8 N×e8 32.N×e6+/- )
29.B×e7 N×b8 30.Bb4! probably he missed this move in his calculations.
⚫️#231 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Averbakh
🔸Keres
🔸Moscow, 1950
📕 1...Qd5!
White has a weak isolated d4 pawn. The d5 square is an excellent blockade position for any black piece. White's bishop has no good squares and his own pawns hinder his movement. It should be noted that Black has to exchange queens to prevent a possible attack on his king.
⚫️#232 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Korchnoi
🔸Karpov
🔸Merano, 1981
📕 11...Rb6!
With the idea of 12...Qd7 and then 13...Rd6 putting more pressure on the isolated d4-pawn.
⚪️#233 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov
🔸Kuzmin
🔸Leningrad, 1973
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 233

C: Bg3 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%

A: Re1 – 6
👍👍👍 26%

B: c3 – 4
👍👍 17%

👥 23 people voted so far.
⚫️#234 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Keres
🔸Tal
🔸Moscow, 1957
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 234

A: f5 – 18
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 72%

C: h6 – 4
👍👍 16%

B: Qh5 – 3
👍 12%

👥 25 people voted so far.
Viktor Korchnoi holding court in the analysis room at the Savoy Hotel during the World Chess Championship 1993.

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FIDE Interzonal tournament, Moscow, September 1982. Garry Kasparov shakes hands with Aleksandr Beliavsky before their game in the 6th round.

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World Champion Anatoly Karpov, photographed in play during a famous victory v. Iosif Dorfman in the 8th round of the 44th USSR-ch, Moscow, 7th December 1976.

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