⚪️#420 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Short,N
🔸Kasparov,G
🔸Amsterdam, 1996

White has a clear static advantage. His isolated e5-pawn is a strength rather than a weakness as it controls key squares in the heart of Black's camp, denying access to the defender's pieces. Additionally White has more territory under his control as well as the advantage of the two bishops. Therefore the plan should be to prevent counterplay, improve the position to its maximum and then the winning combination should come about by itself. So the first part of the plan is to prevent counterplay. The only way for Black to gain any is to eliminate the bishop on d4, hence White's next.
19.b4! (19.Qe3? Rxd4! 20.cxd4 Qxc2-+) 19...Ng7 20.g4!+/-
Not to be allowed is ...Ng7-f5xd4 etc. Now Black's counterplay has been nipped in the bud, leading us to the improvement phase.

⚪️#421 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Timman,J
🔸Portisch,L
🔸Antwerp 1989

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 421

B: Ba2 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

C: a4 – 2
👍👍👍 25%

A: Rf1 – 1
👍 13%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#422 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Portisch,L
🔸Timman,J
🔸Antwerp 1989

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 422

B: Qc4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

C: d6 – 2
👍👍👍 29%

A: a4
▫️ 0%

👥 7 people voted so far.

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