📕 This is a really interesting position and difficult to evaluate. Luckily we do not need to do so to find the best move! But anyway, let us resort to one of the old methods of evaluation. Where should the pieces be placed? White, for sure, wants the queen's rook on d1, while the queen could go to d7 or d2 and the bishop – who knows? White needs to somehow break a hole in Black's centre, or forever live with a bad bishop. But in the position White is under attack.
17.Rfb1!
The only move that helps White in his quest to obtain his favorite piece placement. Now the idea is Qg5-d1-d2 followed by f2-f3 and Rb1-d1 (maybe), with Bg3-f2 and b2-b4 in some positions. Less good is 17.Rab1 Qc4!.

⚪️#405 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Gelfand,B
🔸Kasparov,G
🔸Linares, 1994

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 405

C: Bg5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

A: Nge2 – 4
👍👍👍👍 36%

B: Nb5
▫️ 0%

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⚫️#406 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Kacheishvili,G
🔸Svidler,P
🔸World Junior Ch., Szeged, 1994

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 406

B: e6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

A: c5 – 3
👍👍👍 27%

C: Ned7 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

Shankland Wins U.S. Championship; Women Go To Playoff.

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🔹 U.S. championship 2018- Round 11
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🔹 U.S. Womens Championship 2018- Round 11
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GM (2011) Sam Shankland (1991- ), now rated 2701, wins the 2018 U.S. chess championship. He won 6, drew 5, and lost none. He scored 1/2 point ahead of Fabiano Caruana. He scored better than 3 of the top 10 players in the world - Caruana (2822), So (2778) and Nakamura (2769).

🔹 Chess Positions on Stamps
🔹 Game story by Botvinnik
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🔹 Botvinnik v Capablanca, AVRO, 1938 , Nimzo-Indian Defense (E40)
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🔸 Unity Chess Club Weekly Tournament, April 29th, 2018

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✅ #Abrahams_chess_quotes_002

🔹 Gerald Abrahams
🔹 English Chess Master and Chess Author

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✅ #about_Abrahams

🔹 Gerald Abrahams
🔹 English Chess Master and Chess Author

♦️ Gerald Abrahams was an English chess player, author, and barrister.

▪️ Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
▪️ Died: March 15, 1980
▪️ Books: 👇🏼
🔴 The chess mind
🔴 Technique in chess,
🔴 Not only chess, MORE
🔴 The Pan book of Chess
🔴 Test your chess
🔴 Teach yourself chess

♦️ Gerald Abrahams is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams–Noteboom Variation, or the Noteboom Variation:👇🏼👇🏼

⚙️ 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4
7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7
(ECO D31)

♦️ In 1933 he was third at Hastings in the British Championship, after Mir Sultan Khan and Theodore Tylor.
Abrahams was known as a strong blindfold player. In 1934 he took on four strong Irish players, playing blindfold, at the Belgravia Hotel in Belfast, winning two games and drawing two.
In the Anglo-Soviet radio match of 1946 he scored one win and one draw against Viacheslav Ragozin on board 10.

♦️ A memorable and informative Tactical short game by Abrahams 👇🏼
🔹 Gerald Abrahams vs. Edmund Spencer
🔹Liverpool, England - 1930
🔹 Slav Defense: Schlechter Variation (D15)


♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇🏼

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