📕 17...b2!
A powerful idea! - in effect, Black secures the bishop on a6 for the time being. The weakness of d3 provides a measure of compensation for White's powerful pawn on c6. 18.Bxb2 Nc5.
A powerful idea! - in effect, Black secures the bishop on a6 for the time being. The weakness of d3 provides a measure of compensation for White's powerful pawn on c6. 18.Bxb2 Nc5.
📕 16.Nc4! Ba6 17.Nxd6!
Of course! With a clearly defined plan of advancing in the center, the d6 pawn is key to Black's defence and its removal is well worth the exchange. 17...Bxf1 18.Qxf1+/-.
Of course! With a clearly defined plan of advancing in the center, the d6 pawn is key to Black's defence and its removal is well worth the exchange. 17...Bxf1 18.Qxf1+/-.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 331
A: Bg5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
C: b4 – 1
👍👍 20%
B: Nd3
▫️ 0%
👥 5 people voted so far.
A: Bg5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
C: b4 – 1
👍👍 20%
B: Nd3
▫️ 0%
👥 5 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 332
anonymous poll
B: Qd2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
A: Bd4 – 2
👍👍👍 29%
C: Bb2
▫️ 0%
👥 7 people voted so far.
anonymous poll
B: Qd2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
A: Bd4 – 2
👍👍👍 29%
C: Bb2
▫️ 0%
👥 7 people voted so far.
Rd 4 at the Candidates in Berlin: Fabiano Caruana beat Kramnik as Black in 66 moves and Aronian beat Karjakin as Black in 68 moves. Black has now won more games than White (4 wins for Black and 3 wins for White). Caruana (2784) leads with 3 out of 4 and now favorite to win.
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Mikhail Steinberg (b. 1952, Kharkov), who was the youngest ever Master of Sport in the USSR, aged 14. Pictured here on the way to becoming European Junior Champion at Groningen (1966/67). Sadly, Steinberg died in 1976, of leukemia.
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Hungarian grandmaster and former FIDE World Championship Candidate, Zoltán Ribli (b. 1951) - pictured at the Amsterdam IBM tournament in July 1974.
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Efim Geller v. Arshak Petrosian, in the 7th round of the 52nd USSR-ch final, Riga, January 1985.
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