🔸FIDE Berlin Candidates 2018
🔸Round 14
⚪️Kramnik,Vladimir (2800)
⚫️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2809)
🔸½-½

📘 22.Qf3!?
A deep and clever trap.
[22...Q×c4 23.R×d5!
A)23...e×d5?? 24.B×d5 +-
B)23...Q×a2 24.Rd8!+ B×d8 25.Qc3 f6 26.Qc5
C)23...f5 24.Rd1
C1)24...f×e4 25.Rd8+ B×d8 26.Qf8#
C2)24...Q×e4 25.Qc3 Bf8 26.B×f8 K×f8 27.Qf6 Kg8 28.Rd8#]
22...c6 23.Bd3 Nf6 =

⚫️#355 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Giri,Anish (2793)
🔸Svidler,Peter (2727)
🔸FIDE World Cup Baku 2015

📕 19...Bc8!
Improving the bishop, which has little to do on b7 in a Benoni set-up. The text-move is more natural than 19...Bc3 20.Bd2 Bxd2 21.Qxd2 Nf6 22.f4+/=.

⚪️#356 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Aronian,Levon (2805)
🔸Harikrishna,Pentala (2669)
🔸WchT 8th Ningbo

📘 23.Bd7!
This powerful move greatly limits Black's forces - now he cannot activate either of his rooks. 23...Rfd8 (23...Bxa2 24.b3) 24.Rc7 a5 (24...Bxa2 25.g6! fxg6 26.e6!) 25.a4!+/-

⚪️#357 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Giri,Anish (2793)
🔸Svidler,Peter (2727)
🔸FIDE World Cup Baku 2015

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 357

A: B×c6 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%

C: Nc2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%

B: N×c6 – 1
👍 10%

👥 10 people voted so far.

⚫️#358 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Smeets,Jan (2615)
🔸Naiditsch,Arkadij (2708)
🔸Tata Steel-B 2013

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 358

B: Ne6 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%

C: Ne4 – 2
👍👍 17%

A: N×g4 – 1
👍 8%

👥 12 people voted so far.

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