🔸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

⚫️#387 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Bisguier,A
🔸Petrosian,T
🔸New York, 1954

23...Qd8!
In order to play ...e6-e5 without allowing White to hit the queen with Nd5.
24.Rf3 Bf8! 25.Rg3 e5! 26.f5 Nd4.

⚫️#388 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Matanovic,A
🔸Petrosian,T
🔸Kiev, 1959

18...b5!
The black b-pawn will be used as a battering ram against c3 in the style of the Fischer game.
19.g3 Rfd8 20.f4 b4=/+.

⚫️#389 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Johner,P
🔸Nimzowitsch,A
🔸Dresden, 1926

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 389

C: Qh7 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%

A: d5 – 1
👍👍 20%

B: Kh8
▫️ 0%

👥 5 people voted so far.

⚫️#390 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Sadvakasov,D
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Hoogeveen, 1999

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 390

A: Ne7 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 43%

B: Qe8 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 43%

C: Nb4 – 1
👍👍 14%

👥 7 people voted so far.

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