🔸 Alexander Kotov - Ratmir Kholmov, URS (1971)
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🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Hou,Yifan (2654)
⚫️Vachier-Lagrave(2789)
🔸0-1

📘 30...Rd8!
Sacrificing the a5-pawn to seize the initiative.
31.N×a5 R×d2 32.Q×d2 Ba6 33.Bf1?
(33.Bf3 =)
33...B×f1 34.K×f1 Qa8! 35.Nc4 Q×e4 36.Kg1 Ne2+ 37.Kf1 Nd4 -+

🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Meier,Georg (2648)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2784)
🔸0-1

📘 10...g5!?
Caruana's novelty in the exchange variation of the Ruy Lopez.
11.Nf3
(11.B×g5 B×g5 12.Q×g5 Rg8 Black has an active position.)
11...Rg8 12.h4 Qg6 13.h×g5 Ng4 14.Nc3 h6

🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Meier,Georg (2648)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2784)
🔸0-1

📘 29...g4
Caruana has missed a golden opportunity.
29...Qh2+ 30.Kf1 Rd8! 31.Be3 R×c1 32.R×c1 Rd1+!! 33.R×d1 Bc4+ 34.Ke1 Bb4+ 35.Bd2 Qg1+ 36.Nf1 Q×f1#
30.f4 Q×f4 31.R×c4 b×c4 -/+

🔸Grenke Classic 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Meier,Georg (2648)
⚫️Caruana,Fabiano (2784)
🔸0-1

📘 The White king has been weakened, so he must play precisely.
32.Be3?
(32.Qa5! The Art of defense in Chess. 32...Qf3 33.Rd2 Rh3 34.Qc3 =)
32...Qf3 33.Rd6?? Rh3 34.R×e6 R×g3+! 35.f×g3 Q×e3+ 36.Kh2 Qf2+ 37.Kh1 Qf1+ 0-1
If 38.Kh2, then Qh3+ 39.Kg1 Bc5#

Fantastic photo!

⚪️#367 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kostic,B
🔸Capablanca,J
🔸Havana, 1919

📕 17.Nh2!
A prophylactic move to prevent Black from attacking on the kingside with ...h5.

⚫️#368 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Portisch,L
🔸Kramnik,V
🔸Biel, 1993

📕 27...Kh7!!
An excellent move with the aim of 28...Na4.
Kramnik was very proud of this move and gave it two exclamation marks in his annotations. It is indeed amazing that moving the king to h7 can have such a decisive bearing on the struggle on the queenside. 28.Ra1 the only move (28.Qxb4 Nxa2) 28...a5-/+.

⚪️#369 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Capablanca,J
🔸Blackburne,J
🔸St Petersburg, 1914

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 369

A: Be1 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

C: Rb1 – 2
👍👍👍 29%

B: a3
▫️ 0%

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