▪️ Irving Chernev - David Gladstone, USA Ch 1944
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GM Nigel Short (1965- ) is running for FIDE president for the 2018-2022 cycle. He is running against present president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and another presidential candidate, deputy president Georgios Makropoulos. Election is on October 3 during the Batumi Chess Olympiad.

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Nils Grandelius (3/4) solely leads the TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament with only one round to go.

Vidit Gujrathi and Tari Aryan are the runner-ups with 2.5/4 points.

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🔹 2018 Tepe Sigeman & Co | Round 4
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🔸Russian Team League 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Drygalov,Andrey (2431)
⚫️Matlakov,Maxim (2704)
🔸0-1

18.h3?
White's carelessness which is exploited very well by Matlakov.
18...B×h3! 19.g×h3 Q×h3
Black has now the idea of transferring the bishop to e3 via h6.
20.Qg5 d3 21.Qg2 Q×g2 22.K×g2 d×e2 23.Rf2 Rf4 24.R×e2 R×c4 -+

🔸Russian Team League 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Najer,Evgeniy (2667)
⚫️Shirov,Alexei (2652)
🔸0-1

18.c5!
An excellent positional pawn sacrifice to clear the c4 square for his knight.
18...d×c5 19.Nbd2 Nbd7 20.Nc4 Ne8 21.Ba4 Nd6 22.B×d7 Q×d7 23.Nc×e5 +-

🔸Russian Team League 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Fedoseev,Vladimir3 (2706)
⚫️Najer,Evgeniy (2667)
🔸1-0

39...f3??
The only way to continue fighting is 39...Kf7.
40.R×c8+ B×c8 41.Qe8+ 1-0

🔸Russian Team League 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Potkin,Vladimir (2574)
⚫️Gelfand,Boris (2695)
🔸1-0

26...B×d5? (26...N×d5)
A blunder. Gelfand has overlooked his opponent's next move.
27.Ba6! B×a2?
A)27...Rcd8 28.N×g6 +/-
B)Bb7 28.Rd7 +-
28.B×c8 R×c8 29.Rd7 Qc3 30.Re3 Qa1+ 31.Kh2 +-

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

📕White would have a clear advantage if he could drive the knight away from e5 with f2-f4. White's forces are almost all in place for this, so White played...
26.Rf1! Qg5?! This proves to be less good. 27.Ne2! Nf4 28.Nxf4 Qxf4 29.g3 Qf3 30.Ng4! Qxd1 31.Nf6+ Kh8 32.Rfxd1+/-

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