📕 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%

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⚪️#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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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."

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🔹 Unity Chess Stamp Album
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🔹 Bobby Fischer
🔹 Chess Grandmaster and world Chess Champion

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🔹 Bobby Fischer
🔹 Chess Grandmaster and world Chess Champion

♦️ Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time.

▪️ Full name: Robert James Fischer
▪️ Country: United States
Iceland (2005–2008)
▪️ Born: March 9, 1943
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
▪️ Died: January 17, 2008 (aged 64)
Reykjavík, Iceland
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1958)
▪️ World Champion: 1972–1975
▪️ Peak rating: 2785 (July 1972 FIDE rating list)

♦️ Fischer made numerous lasting contributions to chess. In the 1990s, he patented a modified chess timing system that added a time increment after each move, now a standard practice in top tournament and match play. He also invented Fischerandom, a new variant of chess known today as "Chess960".

♦️ A memorable game by Fischer against Keres in Belgrade Candidates 1959 which known "Bled to Death" in chessgames.com site!!👇🏼
🔸 Paul Keres vs Robert James Fischer
🔸 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959), Bled, Zagreb & Belgrade YUG, rd 1, Sep-07
🔸 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. Main Line (B99)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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