🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Gordievsky,Dmitry (2630)
⚫️Romanov,Evgeny (2621)
🔸1-0

📘 43.Nf5+!
A spectacular finish!
43...R×f5
(43...Kh7 44.Rg7+ Kh8 45.Rd7)
44.Rg6+! 1-0
(if 44...K×g6 then, 45.e×f5+ K×f5 46.c7)

⚪️#305 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hebden,Mark (2549)
🔸Davies,Nigel R (2502)
🔸Gibraltar Masters Catalan Bay ENG 2004

26.d5!
Emphasising the lack of coordination in Black's position by sticking a wedge between the two wings.

⚪️#306 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Miles,Anthony J (2545)
🔸Michaelides,Evan (2280)
🔸Lone Pine op 1980

📘 14.Ra2!
Frees the queen and ensures that any exchange of bishops should lead to pressure against b7.

⚪️#307 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Prokopchuk,Evgeny (2440)
🔸Brodsky,Michail (2515)
🔸RUS-Cup4 Perm 1997

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 307

C: Qc2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%

A: Re1 – 3
👍👍👍👍 33%

B: Bf4 – 1
👍 11%

👥 9 people voted so far.

⚪️#308 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Motwani,Paul (2455)
🔸Hempson,Peter W
🔸BCF-ch Blackpool, 1988

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 308

A: a4 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%

B: b3 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 36%

C: h3 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

The participants in the 1958 championship of the RSFSR.

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Seated, 1st row: V. Korchnoi (Leningrad), R. Nezhmetdinov (Kazan), arbiters Magergut, Bogatin & Cherkes, S. Furman (Leningrad), E. Stoliar (Leningrad).

2nd row: L. Polugaevsky (Kuibyshev), I. Veltmander (Izhevsk), G. Bastrikov (Sverdlovsk), G. Borisenko (Leningrad), V. Zagorovsky (Voronezh), V. Sergievsky (Cheboksary), B. Vladimirov (Leningrad). V. Zhilin (Rostov-on-Don), I. Efimov (Saratov), L. Shamkovich (Rostov-on-Don).

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This was the tournament in the famous game Polugaevsky-Nezhmetdinov (24...Rf4!!, etc.) was played.

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Silver medal winners at the 24th Olympiad in Malta - Hungary. Left to right: József Pintér, Iván Faragó, István Csom, Gyula Sax, Zoltán Ribli, Lajos Portisch.

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Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik during the opening ceremony of their first world championship match, March 1960.

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▪️ Alexander Kotov
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Author

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