Bent Larsen and Bobby Fischer enjoying themselves during the 1966 Piatigorsky Cup in Santa Monica, in the garden of the patrons Jacqueline and Gregory Piatigorsky.

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Nona Gaprindashvili and Mikhail Tal, the stars of the 1963/64 Hastings tournaments.

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Caruana is the only one of the stars to win with Black and is now co-leading another tournament!

While all the decisive results were pouring in, Caruana swiftly outplayed Xiong and is not in complete control. A victory will almost certainly propel him into a shared lead.
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Round 3 in US ch: Caruana beat Xiong, Zherebukh beat Robson, Shankland beat Izoria. All other games drawn. Caruana, So, and Akobian all lead with 2.5 out of 3. Rd 4 pairings: Robson-Shankland, Caruna-Izoria, Akobian-Xiong, So-Lenderman, Nakamura-Liang, and Zherebukh-Oniscuk.

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2018 U.S. Championship | Standings After Round 3

🔹 U.S. championship 2018- Round 3
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U.S. Championship 2018— results and ranking of the women's Championship Round 3

🔹 U.S. Womens Championship 2018- Round 3
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🔸Sharjah Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Wang,Hao (2707)
⚫️Sethuraman,S.P (2631)
🔸1-0

📘 White has the two-bishop advantage and more space. He also controls the open a-file, so he can convert his positional advantages to the material advantage.
29.Bf5
Intending 30.Bc2, restricting the black knight.
29...g6 30.Bc2 Kg7 31.Re1 Bb8 32.h4! f6 33.g4 Kf7 34.g5 f5 35.Kg2 +-

🔸Sharjah Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Mareco,Sandro (2645)
⚫️Jones,Gawain C B (2675)
🔸1-0

📘 Black has two problems in the position:
1-Having a bad Bishop.
2. Limited in space.
Gavin Jones decides to solve the first one.

20...Nh7! 21.Kh2 Bf6 22.Rac1 Bg5

🔸Sharjah Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Adly,Ahmed (2626)
⚫️Kovalev,Vladislav (2648)
🔸1-0

📘 8...d6!?
This sacrifice line in the Symmetrical English variation has been employed by Kovalev in a few games.
9.N×c6 b×c6 10.B×c6 Rb8 11.Bg2 Qa5 12.Qd2 Be6 13.b3 R×b3 14.a×b3 Q×a1 15.Nb5 a6 16.Na7 Bd7

🔸Sharjah Masters 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2615)
⚫️Safarli,Eltaj (2653)
🔸½-½

📘 34.Bf1
Parham decides to keep his bishop instead of the knight in the Knight + 4 pawns vs Knight + 3 pawns ending.
(34.B×c6! N×c6 35.b5 Ncb4 36.b×a6 N×a6 +/-)
34...N×b4 35.Bc4 Nd5 36.Nd8 Kf8 37.N×c6 N×c6 38.B×d5