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%

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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
🔹 Download this game by PGN format👇🏼👇🏼

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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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🔸 Gerald Abrahams - Edmund Spencer, Liverpool, England - 1930
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🔸Shamkir Chess 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Giri,A (2777)
⚫️Carlsen,M (2843)
🔸0-1