🔸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!🔹

⚪️ #16 (Strategy - White To Move)

🔹#16
White should have taken up the struggle for the control of the open c-file immediately by playing 1.Na2! [1.e3?! Bb5!] If 1...Bb5 2.Rxc7 Rxc7 3.Rc1! holding the balance as a result of the exchange of the last pair of rooks.🔹

🔴 #8

P.Eljanov - M.Carlsen (2010)

1.Qxf7+!! Kxf7 2.Rxg7+ Ke8 3.Be2! Qb8 4.Rd1+- e4 5.Bh5+ Kd8 6.Rg8+ Ke7 7.Rxb8 Rxb8 8.Re1+- 1-0

⚪️ #17 (Strategy - White To Move)

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 17
anonymous poll

C: Kg3 – 14
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%

A: b4 – 5
👍👍👍 24%

B: h4 – 2
👍 10%

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