Unity Chess Multiple Choice 484
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A: Qa4 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
@payam6661, @Shadowoffhollow, 🔇, @MrAmrb, Hamid.S, Mohammad, Nikhil, @SteveWongso, Sanjana, Venkat, Adhvaith, Kiran
B: b4 – 3
👍👍 18%
Mohammad, Alexander, @RichardPeng
C: a4 – 2
👍 12%
Meisam, @Sophia_Peng
👥 17 people voted so far.
public poll
A: Qa4 – 12
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
@payam6661, @Shadowoffhollow, 🔇, @MrAmrb, Hamid.S, Mohammad, Nikhil, @SteveWongso, Sanjana, Venkat, Adhvaith, Kiran
B: b4 – 3
👍👍 18%
Mohammad, Alexander, @RichardPeng
C: a4 – 2
👍 12%
Meisam, @Sophia_Peng
👥 17 people voted so far.
🔹 American Grandmaster, Fabiano Caruana
🔹 Altibox Chess Championship by beating Wesley So in last round!!
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🔹 Altibox Chess Championship by beating Wesley So in last round!!
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🔹 Caruana, Fabiano (2822) - So, Wesley (2778)
🔹 Altibox Norway Chess | Stavanger | Round 9 | 7 Jun 2018 | ECO: C65
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🔹 Altibox Norway Chess | Stavanger | Round 9 | 7 Jun 2018 | ECO: C65
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@Caruana-So round9.pgn
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🔹 Fabiano Caruana - Wesley So, Altibox Norway Chess 2018
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🔹 Annotated by GM Robert Hess
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🔹 PGN format
🔹 Annotated by GM Robert Hess
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🛄 #Capablanca_chess_quotes_004
🔹 Jose Raul Capablanca
🔹Cuban chess master
🔹Third World Champion
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🔹 Jose Raul Capablanca
🔹Cuban chess master
🔹Third World Champion
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🛄 #about_Capablanca
🔹 Jose Raul Capablanca
🔹Cuban chess master
🔹Third World Champion
♦️ José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927
🔘 Full name: José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera
🔘 Country: Cuba
🔘 Born: 19 November 1888
Havana, Cuba
🔘 Died: 8 March 1942 (aged 53)
New York City, New York, U.S.
🔘 World Champion: 1921–1927
♦️Capablanca’s win at San Sebastian in 1911 provided the results and the impetus for Capablanca to negotiate with Lasker for a title match, but some of Lasker’s conditions were unacceptable to Capablanca, especially one requiring the challenger to win by two points to take the title, while the advent of World War I delayed the match.
In 1920, Lasker and Capablanca agreed to play the title match in 1921, but a few months later, former was ready to surrender the title without a contest, saying,
"You have earned the title not by the formality of a challenge, but by your brilliant mastery."
A significant stake ($25,000, $13,000 guaranteed to Lasker) was raised that induced Lasker to play in Havana where Capablanca won the Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921) - without losing a game - after Lasker resigned from the match when trailing by 4 games, the first time a World Champion had lost his title without winning a game until the victory by Vladimir Kramnik in the Kasparov - Kramnik World Championship Match (2000).
From 1921 to 1923, Alekhine, Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch all challenged Capablanca, but only Alekhine could raise the money stipulated in the so-called “London Rules”, which these players had signed in 1921.
A group of Argentinean businessmen, backed by a guarantee from the president of Argentina, promised the funds for a World Championship match between Capablanca and Alekhine, and once the deadline for Nimzowitsch to lodge a deposit for a title match had passed, the title match was agreed to, beginning in September 1927. Capablanca lost the Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927) at Buenos Aires in 1927 by +3 -6 =25 in the longest title match ever, until it was surpassed by the legendary Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1984).
♦️ A memorable game by Capablanca against Nimzowitsch which content the informative opposite-colored bishops endgame👇🏼
▪️ Aron Nimzowitsch vs Jose Raul Capablanca
▪️ Exhibition Game (1913), Riga RUE, Dec-30
▪️ Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo. Canal Variation (C50)
♦️ Review and download analysed by Capablanca PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Jose Raul Capablanca
🔹Cuban chess master
🔹Third World Champion
♦️ José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927
🔘 Full name: José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera
🔘 Country: Cuba
🔘 Born: 19 November 1888
Havana, Cuba
🔘 Died: 8 March 1942 (aged 53)
New York City, New York, U.S.
🔘 World Champion: 1921–1927
♦️Capablanca’s win at San Sebastian in 1911 provided the results and the impetus for Capablanca to negotiate with Lasker for a title match, but some of Lasker’s conditions were unacceptable to Capablanca, especially one requiring the challenger to win by two points to take the title, while the advent of World War I delayed the match.
In 1920, Lasker and Capablanca agreed to play the title match in 1921, but a few months later, former was ready to surrender the title without a contest, saying,
"You have earned the title not by the formality of a challenge, but by your brilliant mastery."
A significant stake ($25,000, $13,000 guaranteed to Lasker) was raised that induced Lasker to play in Havana where Capablanca won the Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921) - without losing a game - after Lasker resigned from the match when trailing by 4 games, the first time a World Champion had lost his title without winning a game until the victory by Vladimir Kramnik in the Kasparov - Kramnik World Championship Match (2000).
From 1921 to 1923, Alekhine, Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch all challenged Capablanca, but only Alekhine could raise the money stipulated in the so-called “London Rules”, which these players had signed in 1921.
A group of Argentinean businessmen, backed by a guarantee from the president of Argentina, promised the funds for a World Championship match between Capablanca and Alekhine, and once the deadline for Nimzowitsch to lodge a deposit for a title match had passed, the title match was agreed to, beginning in September 1927. Capablanca lost the Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927) at Buenos Aires in 1927 by +3 -6 =25 in the longest title match ever, until it was surpassed by the legendary Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1984).
♦️ A memorable game by Capablanca against Nimzowitsch which content the informative opposite-colored bishops endgame👇🏼
▪️ Aron Nimzowitsch vs Jose Raul Capablanca
▪️ Exhibition Game (1913), Riga RUE, Dec-30
▪️ Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo. Canal Variation (C50)
♦️ Review and download analysed by Capablanca PGN file👇🏼
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@Nimzowitsch-Capablanca 1913.pgn
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🔹 Aron Nimzowitsch - Jose Raul Capablanca , Exhibition Game (1913), Riga
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🔹 Notes by Capablanca
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🔹 PGN format
🔹 Notes by Capablanca
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12...Qe8!
Moving the queen away from the opponent's rook and protecting the b5-pawn.
13.e4
13.d5! e×d5 14.Nd4 Qe5 15.e4 d×e4 16.a×b5 a×b5 17.N×c6 N×c6 18.R×a8 R×a8 19.Q×e4 Q×e4 20.B×e4
(½-½ Wojtaszek-R - Giri-A Shakmir 2018 )
13...g6 14.h4 Nd7 15.a×b5 a×b5 16.R×a8 Q×a8 17.d5
Moving the queen away from the opponent's rook and protecting the b5-pawn.
13.e4
13.d5! e×d5 14.Nd4 Qe5 15.e4 d×e4 16.a×b5 a×b5 17.N×c6 N×c6 18.R×a8 R×a8 19.Q×e4 Q×e4 20.B×e4
(½-½ Wojtaszek-R - Giri-A Shakmir 2018 )
13...g6 14.h4 Nd7 15.a×b5 a×b5 16.R×a8 Q×a8 17.d5
29.R×b4?
29.a3!
The only way to keep the equality.
29...Nc5 30.R×b4 a×b4 31.B×d4 =
29...a×b4 30.Bd2 b3! 31.a×b3 Rf3 32.b4 Rd3! 33.Re1 Kf7 34.Bc1 R×h3 -+
29.a3!
The only way to keep the equality.
29...Nc5 30.R×b4 a×b4 31.B×d4 =
29...a×b4 30.Bd2 b3! 31.a×b3 Rf3 32.b4 Rd3! 33.Re1 Kf7 34.Bc1 R×h3 -+
20.R×b7!
Choosing a tactical way to simplify the game and forcing a rook endgame with good drawing chances.
20...K×b7 21.Rb1+ Kc8 22.B×c6 B×f6 23.B×d7+ K×d7 24.e×f6 Re8+ 25.Kd3 Re6 26.Rb4 R×f6 27.Ke3 Re6+ 28.Kd3 Rf6 ½-½
Choosing a tactical way to simplify the game and forcing a rook endgame with good drawing chances.
20...K×b7 21.Rb1+ Kc8 22.B×c6 B×f6 23.B×d7+ K×d7 24.e×f6 Re8+ 25.Kd3 Re6 26.Rb4 R×f6 27.Ke3 Re6+ 28.Kd3 Rf6 ½-½
7.Qa4+
An attempt to disrupt Black's natural development and prevent c7-c5. This move was introduced in 1923 by Lasker in his game against Marshall.
7...Nc6 8.e3 0-0 9.Be2 d×c4 10.0-0 Bd7 11.B×c4
An attempt to disrupt Black's natural development and prevent c7-c5. This move was introduced in 1923 by Lasker in his game against Marshall.
7...Nc6 8.e3 0-0 9.Be2 d×c4 10.0-0 Bd7 11.B×c4
29.Bd1!
Black's problems are obvious. His two knights – both the 'bad' one and the 'good' one – are in a kind of impasse.
29...Ra3?!
The final oversight in a very difficult position.
30.g3 Nh5 31.Qb2 Qa8
Alas, the control of the a-file is of no importance.
32.Bxh5 Bxe3 33.Rxe3 gxh5 34.Kg2
The exchange of a couple of pairs of minor pieces has not brought Black any relief. To his 'bad' knight has been added a catastrophic weakening of the pawns covering his king.
Black's problems are obvious. His two knights – both the 'bad' one and the 'good' one – are in a kind of impasse.
29...Ra3?!
The final oversight in a very difficult position.
30.g3 Nh5 31.Qb2 Qa8
Alas, the control of the a-file is of no importance.
32.Bxh5 Bxe3 33.Rxe3 gxh5 34.Kg2
The exchange of a couple of pairs of minor pieces has not brought Black any relief. To his 'bad' knight has been added a catastrophic weakening of the pawns covering his king.