🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 10
⚪️Le,Quang Liem (2737)
⚫️Dubov,Daniil (2694)
🔸1-0

📘 44...Bc7? (44...Nf4) 45.d4!!
World Blitz Chess Champion 2013 Le Quang Liem, finishes off the game with a few strong moves.
45...e×d4 6.e5! Rdd8
(46...f×e5 47.B×g5+ +-)
47.R×b6! B×b6 48.R×b6 Nf4 49.R×f6+ +-

🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Round 10
⚪️Motylev,Alexander (2673)
⚫️Peralta,Fernando (2559)
🔸1-0

📘 20.Bg6!!
39-year-old Motylev wins the game by sacrificing a rook and a bishop in the romantic style!
20...Be7 21.B×f7+! K×f7 22.Ng6 Re8 23.f4 Qa2 24.Rb2! N×b2 25.f5 Rg8 26.f6 g×f6 27.e×f6 B×f6 28.Ne5+ Ke7 29.Q×g8 Nb6+ 30.Qf7+ 1-0
Motylev was Russian champion in 2001 and European champion in 2014. He is also Sergey Karjakin's trainer and one of the coaches of the Russian national team.

🔸Gibraltar Masters 2018
🔸Playoff - Rapid Rd1
⚪️Rapport,Richard (2700)
⚫️Aronian,Levon (2797)
🔸0-1

📘46.Bc5??
Rapport's blunder. He could have defended by 46.Bd2 Re7 47.Kf1! and Black can not easily win. Now if 47...Re2?? 48.R×c2! +/-.
46...Rd7 47.Be3 N×e3 0-1

⚪️#285 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Najer,Evgeniy (2599)
🔸Pogorelov,Ruslan (2460)
🔸Moscow Aeroflot 2002

📕 15.g4!
Quite simply it starts to rather resemble an open Sicilian in which the fixed center denies black the customary counterplay. The ease with which the pawn-storm hits the spot is impressive.

⚪️#286 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Botvinnik,Mikhail
🔸Smyslov,Vassily
🔸World Championship 1954

📕 10.g4!
Goes without saying! The right moment cannot be missed. By pushing the knight from f6, White creates disharmony among black's pieces, which becomes a crucial factor when the position is opened.

⚫️#288 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Morozevich,Alexander (2742)
🔸Lautier,Joel (2687)
🔸Cannes NAO Masters 2002

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 288

B: d5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 46%

A: g5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍 38%

C: g6 – 2
👍👍 15%

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Boris Spassky (USSR) v. Georgi Tringov (Bulgaria), Rd. 7, Amsterdam IBM, 21st July 1970. The game was drawn in 21 moves.

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Winner of the 1975 Amsterdam IBM tournament - Yugoslav grandmaster Ljubomir Ljubojević. He had just secured first place by winning his final-round game v. Robert Hübner in only 22 moves.

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Edward Winter on Eliot Hearst (1932-2018).
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Anatoly Karpov and Victor Korchnoi during their match in the final of the 1974 Candidates (Moscow, October 1974).

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