📕21.Bh4!
Kramnik demonstrates he has no need to fear the check on d3. If instead 21.Ke2, Black can choose between 21...Kd5, avoiding the pin on his knight that occurs in the game, or else 21...a5!? aiming to activate his bishop by 22...Ba6+ with a strong counterattack. After Kramnik's move, 21.Bh4, White is threatening to win a pawn with either 22.Nxh6 gxh6 23.Bxf6 or 22.Bxf6 gxf6 23.Nxh6.
21...Nd3+ 22.Ke2! Nxb2 23.Rhb1 Nc4 24.Bd3!+/-
Kramnik demonstrates he has no need to fear the check on d3. If instead 21.Ke2, Black can choose between 21...Kd5, avoiding the pin on his knight that occurs in the game, or else 21...a5!? aiming to activate his bishop by 22...Ba6+ with a strong counterattack. After Kramnik's move, 21.Bh4, White is threatening to win a pawn with either 22.Nxh6 gxh6 23.Bxf6 or 22.Bxf6 gxf6 23.Nxh6.
21...Nd3+ 22.Ke2! Nxb2 23.Rhb1 Nc4 24.Bd3!+/-
19.Nb1!
Petrosian intends to transfer his knight to c4 via a3, attacking black d6-pawn.
19...Rxc1 20.Rxc1 Rc8 21.Na3 Rxc1 22.Bxc1 h5 23.Nc4+/-.
Petrosian intends to transfer his knight to c4 via a3, attacking black d6-pawn.
19...Rxc1 20.Rxc1 Rc8 21.Na3 Rxc1 22.Bxc1 h5 23.Nc4+/-.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 383
A: Qe6 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
B: Nd8 – 1
👍 13%
C: Kg7 – 1
👍 13%
👥 8 people voted so far.
A: Qe6 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
B: Nd8 – 1
👍 13%
C: Kg7 – 1
👍 13%
👥 8 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 384
C: a6 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%
A: Bf8 – 4
👍👍👍👍 29%
B: Nf8 – 2
👍👍 14%
👥 14 people voted so far.
C: a6 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%
A: Bf8 – 4
👍👍👍👍 29%
B: Nf8 – 2
👍👍 14%
👥 14 people voted so far.
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🌹🌹 Congratulations!! 🌹🌹
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🔸Antoaneta Stefanova
🔸Bulgarian Chess Grandmaster
🌸 Today is birthday of Stefanova
🌹🌹 Congratulations!! 🌹🌹
@unitychess
#About_Estefanova
🔸 Antoaneta Stefanova
🔸 Bulgarian Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006. She has represented Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad in 2000 and the Women's Chess Olympiad since 1992.
💢 Country: Bulgaria
💢 Born: 19 April 1979 (age 38)
Sofia, Bulgaria
💢 Title: Grandmaster (2002)
💢 Women's World Champion: 2004–2006
💢 FIDE rating: 2479 (April 2018)
💢 Peak rating: 2560 (January 2003)
💢 Peak ranking: No. 2 woman (January 2003
♦️ Stefanova was born in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. When she was four years old, she received chess lessons from her father, Andon Stefanov, a designing artist.
♦️In 1989, Stefanova won the Girls U10 section at the World Youth Chess Festival in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. In 1992, she played, at the age of 13, in her first Chess Olympiad in Manila, Philippines. In the same year she became European under-14 girls' champion at the European Youth Chess Championship in Rimavská Sobota. Stefanova won the Bulgarian women's championship in 1995.
♦️In June 2002, she won the 3rd European Individual Women's Championship in Varna. Stefanova was awarded the title of Grandmaster at the FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Doha in July 2002. At the end of July 2002, she won the Wismilak International Chess Tournament, a category 8 (average rating 2446) round-robin tournament in Surabaya, Indonesia, scoring 9½/11 points with a performance rating of 2750.
♦️ A memorable game by Stefanova👇
🔹Antoaneta Stefanova vs Elisabeth Paehtz
🔹 Russian Club Championship: Women (2006), Sochi RUS, rd 1, Apr-20
🔹Trompowsky Attack: General (A45)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Antoaneta Stefanova
🔸 Bulgarian Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006. She has represented Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad in 2000 and the Women's Chess Olympiad since 1992.
💢 Country: Bulgaria
💢 Born: 19 April 1979 (age 38)
Sofia, Bulgaria
💢 Title: Grandmaster (2002)
💢 Women's World Champion: 2004–2006
💢 FIDE rating: 2479 (April 2018)
💢 Peak rating: 2560 (January 2003)
💢 Peak ranking: No. 2 woman (January 2003
♦️ Stefanova was born in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. When she was four years old, she received chess lessons from her father, Andon Stefanov, a designing artist.
♦️In 1989, Stefanova won the Girls U10 section at the World Youth Chess Festival in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. In 1992, she played, at the age of 13, in her first Chess Olympiad in Manila, Philippines. In the same year she became European under-14 girls' champion at the European Youth Chess Championship in Rimavská Sobota. Stefanova won the Bulgarian women's championship in 1995.
♦️In June 2002, she won the 3rd European Individual Women's Championship in Varna. Stefanova was awarded the title of Grandmaster at the FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Doha in July 2002. At the end of July 2002, she won the Wismilak International Chess Tournament, a category 8 (average rating 2446) round-robin tournament in Surabaya, Indonesia, scoring 9½/11 points with a performance rating of 2750.
♦️ A memorable game by Stefanova👇
🔹Antoaneta Stefanova vs Elisabeth Paehtz
🔹 Russian Club Championship: Women (2006), Sochi RUS, rd 1, Apr-20
🔹Trompowsky Attack: General (A45)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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@Stefanova-Paehtz 2006.pgn
617 B
🔹 Antoaneta Stefanova - Elisabeth Paehtz, Russian Club Championship: Women (2006)
🔹 PGN format
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🔹 PGN format
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Rd 1 at the US championship in St Louis: So beat Zherebukh and Akobian beat Onischuk. Draws: Liang-Caruana, Nakamura-Robson, Lenderman-Shankland, and Xiong-Izoria. Rd 2 pairings: Robson-Izoria, Shankland-Xiong, Caruana-Lenderman, Akobian-Liang, So-Onischuk, Nakamura-Zherebukh.
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📘 32.Q×a5??
Iranian international master Arash Tahbaz made a blunder in an equal position. 32.Qc2=
32...Nc6 33.Qc7 N×d4 34.Q×b8+ Kh7 35.Qb4 Q×d1+ 36.Ka2 Qd3 -+
Iranian international master Arash Tahbaz made a blunder in an equal position. 32.Qc2=
32...Nc6 33.Qc7 N×d4 34.Q×b8+ Kh7 35.Qb4 Q×d1+ 36.Ka2 Qd3 -+