⚪️#340 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Comp Deep Blue
🔸Kasparov,Garry (2785)
🔸New York man vs machine New York 1997

📕 35.Bxd6!
So delightfully simple. Making way for an invasion on b6 which in conjunction with the a-file will make Black's position creak at the seams. 35...Bxd6 36.axb5 axb5 37.Be4!+- intending Qb6.

⚪️#341 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2765)
🔸Anand,Viswanathan (2735)
🔸Las Palmas 1996

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 341

A: d6 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 86%

B: Ba3 – 1
👍 14%

C: Bf5
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

⚪️#342 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2751)
🔸Kasparov,Garry (2812)
🔸Frankfurt 1999

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 342

A: B×c6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 78%

B: Ba4 – 2
👍👍 22%

C: Bc4
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

Candidates' Tournament R8: Grischuk Outwits Kramnik.

https://goo.gl/ARszML

2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament | Round 8 Standings

After 8 rds at the Candidates, it is Caruana ahead with 5.5 out of 8.
In Rd 8, Grischuk beat Kramnik, Mamedyarev is in 2nd with 5

🔹 Fide Berlin Candidates games - Round 8
🔹 PGN format

@UnityChess

Re. So vs Caruana; this position is from Emanuel Lasker v. Edward Lasker, New York 1924. The game was drawn.

@UnityChess

Tbilisi, 1977 - the 6th game of the Women's Candidates' quarter-final match between Nana Alexandria (playing White) and Maia Chiburdanidze.

@UnityChess

Left to right: David Bronstein, Tigran Petrosian and Nona Gaprindashvili, Tengiz Giorgadze, and Yuri Averbakh. Photographed in Tbilisi, USSR, early 1960s.

@UnityChess

Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, at Kasparov vs Karpov return match gala opening.

@UnityChess

On page 14 of New In Chess 2/1999, Garry Kasparov was asked "What was the best thing you ever did?" His reply: "Becoming world champion. An incredible sensation, unbelievable."

@UnityChess

🔹 Unity Chess Stamp Album
@unitychess