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Round 1 games table
🔵 Prizes of FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018

The total prize fund is €420,000 / $515,000, which is the minimum prize fund stipulated by FIDE in the regulations . The amounts are net and cleared of local taxes.
⭕️ 1st place: €95,000
⭕️ 2nd place: €88,000
⭕️ 3rd place: €75,000
⭕️ 4th place: €55,000
⭕️ 5th place: €40,000
⭕️ 6th place: €28,000
⭕️ 7th place: €22,000
⭕️ 8th place: €17,000

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▪️ First win in Fide Berlin Candidates - Round 1:
▪️ Caruana 1 - So 0 !!
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▪️ Fide Berlin Candidates - Round 1:
▪️ Grischuk resigned against Kramnik
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▪️ Fide Berlin Candidates - Round 1:
▪️Mamedyarov beats Karjakin in a long game by Queen & Pawn Endgame!!
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Candidates2018 R1.pgn
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🔹 Fide Berlin Candidates games - Round 1
🔹 PGN format

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🔸Iranian Championship Final 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2592)
⚫️Gholami Orimi Mahdi (2299)
🔸½-½
📘 18...Bb7
White could have won a pawn with18...B×d4!19.B×d4 B×d3 =/+ (if 20.Q×d3??, then Re1+! -+)
19.b4 a5 20.N×d5! c×d5 21.b×a5 c5 22.c×b6 c4 23.Nf4+/=
🔸Iranian Championship Final 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Ghaem Maghami,Ehsan (2530)
⚫️Firouzja,Alireza (2558)
🔸1-0
📘 Four instructive moments of the 12-time Iranian national champion.
(Diagram 1) 11.Qd3! intending Be3 and Rd1.
(Diagram 2) 22.a4! Keeping the knight on c4 and gaining space on the queenside.
(Diagram 3) 30.Kg2! Ke8 31.b3! White reinforces his position before the final operation.
(Diagram 4) 38.B×a6! A timely tactical blow. 38...Qg6 (38...b×a6 39.Qc6+--->Qc7--->Q×d6 +-) 39.Bb5+ Kd8 40.Qb6+ +-
🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Kramnik,Vladimir (2800)
⚫️Grischuk,Alexander (2767)
🔸1-0
📘 11.Rc1 d6 12.Nb1!
An interesting regrouping in order to transfer the knight to c3 via b1-square.
12...Nbd7 13.Nc3
🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Kramnik,Vladimir (2800)
⚫️Grischuk,Alexander (2767)
🔸1-0
📘 18.Ng5!
Another attractive idea by Great Kramnik! The knight will go to f4 via h3.
18...Rc5 19.Nh3 b5 20.Nf4
♦️ The results of Fide Berlin Candidates 2018 - Round 1

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In analysis: Soviet grandmasters Evgeny Vasiukov (left) and Josif Dorfman (right). Looking on is the Spanish master Román Torán Albero.

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Lombardy-Fischer, Monte Carlo 1967.

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