🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 12
⚪️Grischuk,Alexander (2767)
⚫️Aronian,Levon (2794)
🔸½-½

📘 9.Bd2
Grischuk has chosen a sideline.
9...Kh8
Preparing for ...f5.
10.h3 Nd7 11.Nc3 Na5 12.Nd5 N×b3 13.a×b3 Bb7 14.c4 f5 15.Ba5 Rc8

🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 12
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2763)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2784)
🔸1-0

📘 17.B×d5!
A brave choice. Karjakin intends to keep the bishop on d5 with the exchange sacrifice.
17...B×d1 18.R×d1 Qc7 19.c4

🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 12
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2763)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2784)
🔸1-0

📘 39.B×f7!
Karjakin needs to prevent his opponent's counterplay so tries to simplify the position.
39...Qf5 40.R×d7+ K×d7 41.Q×f5+ R×f5 42.g6 Ke7 43.c×b5 Rh5 44.c4 R×h4 45.a4 +-

⚪️#349 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2783)
🔸Caruana,Fabiano (2791)
🔸Norway Chess 2014

📘 14.Be3!
This tactical sequence with a temporary rook sacrifice will spice things up a bit. (14.Nxa8 Nc3 15.Bg5 Nxe2+ 16.Kh1 Bf6 17.Bxf6 exf6 is a drawish endgame.)
14...Bf6 Nxa8 15.Nc3 Bxa7 16.Nxa2 Nc7+/=.

⚪️#350 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Aronian,Levon (2781)
🔸Jobava,Baadur (2668)
🔸Reykjavik 2015

📕 23.a5!
Given time to consolidate his position with Bb4, Black could hope to survive. Therefore Levon must act energetically. 23...bxa5 the only move. (If 23...Bb4, then 24.a6+ +/-.) 24.Bc5!.

⚪️#351 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Vachier Lagrave,Maxime (2791)
🔸Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2742)
🔸Saint Louis 2017

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 351

A: f3 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

B: Q×f5. – 3
👍👍👍👍 38%

C: Qe2
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#352 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2810)
🔸Aronian,Levon (2809)
🔸FIDE Candidates London 2013

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 352

A: e4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

C: Ne2 – 2
👍👍👍 29%

B: a3
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

Dusheti, Georgian SSR, 1968. USSR Women's champion Nana Alexandria, flanked by visiting grandmasters Salo Flohr and Max Euwe.

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Moscow, Feb 1975. The Women's Candidates' Final between Nana Alexandria & Irina Levitina.

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Alexandria went through, but lost the World Championship match (in Pitsunda/Tbilisi) v. her Georgian compatriot, Nona Gaprindashvili, by 8½-3½.

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