📘 17...Rc4!
A great decision. Karpov with a pawn sacrifice tries to exploit the weakness of light squares in the black camp. 18.Qxa7 Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8 and White is completely tied up.

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🔸Jirovsky,Petr (2351)
🔸Wichern op 5th Hamburgo 1999

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 317

B: Ne2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%

C: Na2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%

A: Qg3 – 2
👍👍👍👍 20%

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⚫️#318 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Paehtz,Elisabeth (2306)
🔸Aseev,Konstantin N (2517)
🔸Cappelle la Grande 2000

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 318

B: e5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%

A: N×d3 – 2
👍👍 20%

C: Rfc8 – 2
👍👍 20%

👥 10 people voted so far.

Petrosian, Korchnoi & Vasiukov analysing the opening game of Tal-Botvinnik World Championship match, Moscow 1961.

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Reykjavík 1968; Mark Taimanov & Evgeny Vasiukov (who is 85 years old today) look on at the latter's game v. Friðrik Ólafsson. Vasiukov won this game; the Soviet grandmasters shared 1st-2nd places in this event, ahead of Ólafsson.

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A feel of the play and atmosphere in Moscow during the eighteenth game of the world title rematch between Tal and Botvinnik, May 5, 1961.

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Miguel Najdorf v. Robert Hübner, 7th round, Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1971 - a key game in the development of what would become known as the Hübner Variation in the Nimzo-Indian Defence.

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Rare April 1948 footage of Paul Keres, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Samuel Reshevsky and Vasily Smyslov during the Moscow part of the 1948 World Chess Championship.

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Smyslov v Reshevsky, World Championship, Moscow, Round 11, April 11, 1948.

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❇️ Three days left to starting Candidates Tournament 2018 !!

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✅ Candidates Tournament 2018
💢 Location: Berlin, Germany
💢 Dates: Mar 10, 2018 – Mar 28, 2018

▪️ The 2018 Candidates Tournament is an 8-player event to decide the challenger who will play a World Championship match against Magnus Carlsen in November 2018 in London.
The 14-round double round-robin runs from 10-27 March in the Kühlhaus Berlin and features a prize fund in excess of €420,000.
Players have 100 minutes for 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1.
The tournament is organised by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon.

▪️ Rounds Schedule👇🏼👇🏼
Round 1 Mar 10, 2018 14:00
Round 2 Mar 11, 2018 14:00
Round 3 Mar 12, 2018 14:00
Round 4 Mar 14, 2018 14:00
Round 5 Mar 15, 2018 14:00
Round 6 Mar 16, 2018 14:00
Round 7 Mar 18, 2018 14:00
Round 8 Mar 19, 2018 14:00
Round 9 Mar 20, 2018 14:00
Round 10 Mar 22, 2018 14:00
Round 11 Mar 23, 2018 14:00
Round 12 Mar 24, 2018 14:00
Round 13 Mar 26, 2018 14:00
Round 14 Mar 27, 2018 14:00

🔸 Chief Arbiter Deventer, Klaus (GER) IA
🔸 Deputy Chief Arbiter Bond, Hal (CAN) IA,IO

▪️Players:
1. Sergey Karjakin (RUS, world championship 2016 finalist)
2. Levon Aronian (ARM, world cup 2017 winner)
3. Ding Liren (CHN, world cup 2017 finalist)
4. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE, grand-prix 2017 winner)
5. Alexander Grischuk (RUS, grand-prix 2017 runner-up)
6. Fabiano Caruana (USA, rating lists 2017)
7. Wesley So (USA, rating lists 2017)
8. Vladimir Kramnik (RUS, organiser's nominee)

▪️First reserve from the FIDE Grand-Prix standings is Teimour Radjabov (AZE)

▪️ The winner of the Candidates Tournament will challenge Magnus Carlsen for the FIDE World Championship title in the last quarter of 2018.

▪️ Official site: https://worldchess.com/

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