🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Rapid game 1
⚪️Richard Rapport
⚫️Chao Li
🔺1-0

🔺Qa4
A rare opening variation to surprise the opponent.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Rapid game 1
⚪️Richard Rapport
⚫️Chao Li
🔺1-0

🔺1.e6+-
(1.a4!! A much stronger move Ra5 2.Rb1 +- )🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Rapid game 2
⚪️Fabiano Caruana
⚫️Evgeniy Najer
🔺0-1

🔺As white is back in development and his king is not safe, opening lines by c5 and f5 is a strong plan.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Rapid game 2
⚪️Fabiano Caruana
⚫️Evgeniy Najer
🔺0-1

When Caruanna gets mated in one move!!

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 game 2
⚪️Liren Ding
⚫️Santosh Gujrathi Vidit
🔺1-0

🔺1...b.c5? Black's carelessness (g6=) 2.d5! c.d5 3.B.f6 +-🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 game 2
⚪️Baadur Jobava
⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi
🔺1-0

🔺1...Rcd4?? Nepo will never forget this blunder that cost him the whole game and got him eliminated from the world cup!
2.Q.d4!+- R.d4 3.Ne8+🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Rapid game 3
⚪️Anish Giri
⚫️S.p Sethuraman
🔺1-0

🔺1.Be4! N.e4 2.Rh8+ K.h8 3.Q.g6 1-0🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Rapid game 4
⚪️S.p Sethuraman
⚫️Anish Giri
🔺0-1

🔺h5-Ng8-Nh6-Ng4
Giri's interesting idea of transferring the knight to the active position.🔺

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Rapid game 4
⚪️Alexander Grischuk
⚫️David Navara
🔺1-0

🔺1.Nd5-Nf4
Michael Adams' favorite idea in this opening. The idea is targeting the black Queen to move her from the active h5 square.🔺

⚪️ #15 (Strategy - White To Move)

🔹#15
Black’s position is preferable. Transferring the white knight to b5 seems to be the best way to achieve equality. 1.Nb1!🔹