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🔹Tata Steel Masters Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 8 - Sunday the 21st:👇🏼👇🏼

🔸Hou, Yifan - Caruana, Fabiano
🔸Adhiban, B. - Karjakin, Sergey
🔸Wei, Yi - Matlakov, Maxim
🔸Giri, Anish - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
🔸Kramnik, Vladimir - So, Wesley
🔸Svidler, Peter - Anand, Viswanathan
🔸Carlsen, Magnus - Jones, Gawain C B

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🔹 Tata Steel Challengers Playing Schedule
🔹 Round 8 - Sunday the 21st:👇🏼👇🏼

🔸Bok, Benjamin - Van Foreest, Lucas
🔸Gordievsky, Dmitry - Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi
🔸Bluebaum, Matthias - L'Ami, Erwin
🔸Xiong, Jeffery - Harika, Dronavalli
🔸Korobov, Anton - Amin, Bassem
🔸Girya, Olga - Krasenkow, Michal
🔸Van Foreest, Jorden - Tari, Aryan

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🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 Israeli chess Grandmaster

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🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 Israeli chess Grandmaster

♦️Boris 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 name: Boris Abramovich Gelfand
🔹Country: Soviet Union Israel
🔹Born: 24 June 1968 (age50) 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)

♦️ 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).

♦️ A memorable game by Gelfand which he wrote one of his Favourite Variation games in " My Most Memorable Games" book👇🏼👇🏼

▪️ Boris Gelfand vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️ Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996), rd 2, May-22
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)

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▪️ Boris Gelfand vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️ Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996), rd 2, May-22
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)

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▪️ Boris Gelfand - Vassily Ivanchuk, Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996)
▪️ PGN format
▪️ Dounload full annotated by Gelfand in PDF format👇🏼👇🏼

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▪️ Boris Gelfand - Vassily Ivanchuk, Dos Hermanas , ESP(1996)
▪️ PDF format
▪️ Full annotated by Gelfand

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🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Hou,Yifan (2680)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2804)
🔸0-1

📘 Mamedyarov with active play and putting pressure on the light square achieves a better position.
18...Na5! 19.Qd3 c6 20.Rbb1 Qf5! 21.a4 g5 22.Nh5 Q×d3 23.R×d3 Nd5 =/+

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Wei,Yi (2743)
⚫️Svidler,Peter (2768)
🔸½-½

📘 Svidler has built a fortress. He can easily keep the position with waiting moves like Kg7-f8-g8 or Rf6. Trading the rooks also lead to a draw.

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Jones,Gawain C B (2640)
⚫️Adhiban,Baskaran (2655)
🔸1-0

📘 35.Nf6!
Gawain Jones calculates 8 moves deep combination.
35...B×f6 36.Q×e8+ Kh7 37.Q×f7 h×g3+ 38.f×g3 Qb8 39.Q×f6 Q×a7+ 40.Qh4+ Kg8 41.Qd8 Kf7 42.Q×d3 +-

🔸Tata Steel Masters 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Anand,Viswanathan (2767)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2811)
🔸1-0

📘 31.Kg1!
Anand calmly secures his king before any operation.
31...Ra4 32.h3 +/-

⚪️#233 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Karpov
🔸Kuzmin
🔸Leningrad, 1973

📕 1.Bg3!
Black has an isolated d-Pawn thus White should exchange minor pieces. The exchange of the dark-squared bishops removes the defender of the weakened squares c5 and e5.

⚫️#234 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Keres
🔸Tal
🔸Moscow, 1957

📕 1...f5!
This is a concrete approach to the position. Though Black has a weak pawn on e6, he gives White minimal activity possibilities and exploits the wrong arrangement of white pieces in the c2-c4-d4-d2 rectangle.