⚪️#284 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gershon,Alik (2558)
🔸Zulfugaryi,Magomed (2430)
🔸Moscow Aeroflot 2002

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 284

C: g4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 62%

B: Nc1 – 4
👍👍👍👍 31%

A: b5 – 1
👍 8%

👥 13 people voted so far.

Jan Timman and Hans Bohmin, Biel, Switzerland, 1969.

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Florencio Campomanes (1927-2010) was the first non-European elected FIDE President (1982-1995). He undertook doctoral studies in political science at Georgetown U. in the early 1950s, but gave up his career to devote his life to chess. He won the Philippine ch in 1956 and 1960.

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"Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, Vahanyan, Romanishin" Leningrad 1977.

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Excellent footage from the 18th Chess Olympiad, Lugano, Switzerland, October/November, 1968.

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🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Dubov,Daniil (2694)
⚫️Antipov,Mikhail Al (2588)
🔸1-0

🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gupta,Abhijeet (2610)
⚫️Ivanchuk,Vassily (2726)
🔸1-0

🔹 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔹 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster

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🔹 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔹 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster

♦️ Shahriyar Hamid oglu Mamedyarov is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He is the No. 1 ranked Azerbaijani player and No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings as of February 2018.

▪️ Full name: Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov
▪️ Country: Azerbaijan
▪️ Born: 12 April 1985 (age 33) Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (2002)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2814 (February 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2814 (February 2018)
▪️ Ranking: No. 2 (February 2018)
▪️ Peak ranking : No. 2 (February 2018)

♦️ Grandmaster (2002). U16 Champion of Azerbaijan (2000); U18 Champion of Azerbaijan (2000); European U18 Champion (2002); Champion of Azerbaijan (2001 & 2002); World U18 Champion (2003); World Junior Champion (2003 & 2005); Candidate (2011 & 2014).

♦️A memorable game by Mamedyarov against Evgeny Najer in Sochi which known "Electric Shak" in chessgames.com site 👇🏼👇🏼

🔸 Evgeny Najer vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Russian Team Championships (2017), Sochi RUS, rd 4, May-05
🔸 Indian Game: Anti-Grünfeld. Alekhine Variation (D70)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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🔸 Evgeny Najer - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Sochi 2017
🔸 PGN format

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🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Ju,Wenjun (2572)
⚫️Gelfand,Boris (2697)
🔸0-1

📘 15...R×f3!
An excellent exchange sacrifice to demolish white's kingside pawn structure and weaken enemy's king.
16.g×f3 Nc6 17.Bb5 N×d4 18.Q×b4 N×f3+ 19.Kd1 e5 -+

🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Aronian,Levon (2797)
⚫️Sethuraman,S.P (2646)
🔸1-0

📘 30...Re8? (30...Kh8)
A strange blunder and neglect of white's threat on h6.
31.Q×h6 Rbd8 32.Rce1 Re7 33.Re3 1-0

🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Michalik,Peter (2553)
⚫️Cheparinov,Ivan (2699)
🔸0-1