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2018 U.S. Championship |Result and Standings After Round 4
Pgn_20180418_Men_Champ_USA (1).pgn
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🔹 U.S. championship 2018- Round 4
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U.S. Championship 2018— results and ranking of the women's Championship Round 4
chusaw18-1.pgn
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🔹 U.S. Womens Championship 2018- Round 4
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▪️ Isaac Boleslavsky
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Writer

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#about_Boleslavsky

▪️ Isaac Boleslavsky
▪️ Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Writer

♦️ Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet chess grandmaster. He was also a chess writer.

▫️ Full name: Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky
▫️ Country: Soviet Union
▫️ Born: June 9, 1919
Zolotonosha, Ukrainian SSR
▫️ Died: February 15, 1977 (aged 57)
Minsk, Belarussian SSR, USSR
▫️ Titl:e Grandmaster
▫️ Peak rating: 2560 (July 1971)

♦️ Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age nine. In 1933, Boleslavsky became schoolboy champion of Dnipropetrovsk. Three years later, he won third prize in the 1936 USSR All-Union Junior Championship, held in Leningrad.
♦️ In 1938, at nineteen, he won the Ukrainian Championship; the following year, he won the Ukraine SSR championship, qualified to play in the USSR Chess Championship at the age of 20, and gained his national chess master title. He earned a degree in philology at Sverdlovsk University.
♦️ In 1940, Boleslavsky played in the 12th USSR championship final in Moscow. He won eight of his last ten games and tied for fifth/sixth place with Mikhail Botvinnik, but lost their personal meeting.
♦️ In 1946, his daughter Tatiana was born; she later married David Bronstein. Boleslavsky and Bronstein had become friends in the late 1930s, and remained so throughout their lives. In 1946, Boleslavsky played abroad in an international tournament for the first time in Groningen and tied for sixth/seventh place.
In 1950 Boleslavsky was one of the inaugural recipients of the International Grandmaster title from FIDE.

♦️ A memorable game by Boleslavsky👇🏼
🔹 Isaac Boleslavsky vs Vasily Smyslov
🔹 Budapest Candidates (1950), Budapest HUN, rd 6, Apr-20
🔹 Slav Defense: Alapin Variation (D16)

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@Boleslavsky-Smyslov 1950.pgn
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🔸 Isaac Boleslavsky - Vasily Smyslov, Budapest Candidates (1950)
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🔸Sharjah Masters 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Kryvoruchko,Yuriy (2703)
⚫️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2615)
🔸½-½
📘 7...Kh8
With the idea of ...Ng8 and ...f5.
The other usual moves are:
A) 7...Na5 8.Ba2 c5
B) 7...h6 8.Nbd2 Nh7 —->Ng5
C) 7.Be6--->Qd7
8.h3 Ng8 9.Nc3 f5
🔸Sharjah Masters 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Kryvoruchko,Yuriy (2703)
⚫️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2615)
🔸½-½
📘 11...N×d5?
The correct continuation is: 11...Ng8 12.Qh5 B×g5 13.B×g5 Qd7.
12.N×h7! Nf6 13.N×f6 g6 14.Nd5 +/-
🔸Shamkir Chess 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Navara,David (2745)
⚫️Mamedov,Rauf (2704)
🔸½-½
📘 17.B×f7+!
A tactical play and brave sacrifice by David Navara.
He is an eight-time Czech champion and won the European Blitz Chess Championship in 2014.
17...K×f7 18.Qg3 Bg7 19.f×g6 h×g6 20.Bg5 Nc6 21.R×f6+! K×f6 22.Rf1 N×d4 23.B×f6 Q×f6 24.R×f6+ K×f6 25.Qh4+ Ke5 26.Qh7
With a double-edged game.
⚫️#389 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Johner,P
🔸Nimzowitsch,A
🔸Dresden, 1926
📘16...Qh7!
This is the idea: putting the black queen on h7 adds vital steel to the restraint of g2-g4. If the white king stepped into a time warp and remerged on b2, Black's queen maneuver would be ridiculous: the straightforward Rg1 and g2-g4 would break the blockade of the g4-square when Black would face a fearsome attack on his king. But unfortunately for White, his king is on h2, which gives him more than a pause for thought when it comes to advancing g2-g4.
⚫️#390 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Sadvakasov,D
🔸Karpov,A
🔸Hoogeveen, 1999