Unity Chess Multiple Choice 486
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B: Nd4 β 8
πππππππ 50%
@payam6661, @MohamadAsp, @Afshin3333, Ramesh, @fkmnchess, π―ΔΕΓΓΔπ―, @AryanLeekha, Kiran
A: g4 β 6
πππππ 38%
Kavian, @Shadowoffhollow, Gavin, Nikhil, Jayden, Saghana
C: Kh2 β 2
ππ 13%
@sen1995, Vincent
π₯ 16 people voted so far.
public poll
B: Nd4 β 8
πππππππ 50%
@payam6661, @MohamadAsp, @Afshin3333, Ramesh, @fkmnchess, π―ΔΕΓΓΔπ―, @AryanLeekha, Kiran
A: g4 β 6
πππππ 38%
Kavian, @Shadowoffhollow, Gavin, Nikhil, Jayden, Saghana
C: Kh2 β 2
ππ 13%
@sen1995, Vincent
π₯ 16 people voted so far.
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β June's Titled Tuesday | 5 Jun 2018
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πΈJune's Titled Tuesday was a fantastic success for Iranian players.
πΈAs evidenced by their success in the 2016 Olympiad and the emergence of prodigies like GM Alireza Firouzja, Iran is becoming quite a strong chess country.
πΈ With two trips (top male and top female) to the Chess.com Isle of Man International up for grabs, Iranians took home both. GM Pouria Darini and WGM Mitra Hejazipour were the victors.
β¦οΈ Read more and details ππΌππΌ
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β June's Titled Tuesday | 5 Jun 2018
CHESS.COM site
πΈJune's Titled Tuesday was a fantastic success for Iranian players.
πΈAs evidenced by their success in the 2016 Olympiad and the emergence of prodigies like GM Alireza Firouzja, Iran is becoming quite a strong chess country.
πΈ With two trips (top male and top female) to the Chess.com Isle of Man International up for grabs, Iranians took home both. GM Pouria Darini and WGM Mitra Hejazipour were the victors.
β¦οΈ Read more and details ππΌππΌ
π http://bit.ly/2xSzNh0
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Iranians Darini, Hejazipour Win IoM Trips In Titled Tuesday
June's Titled Tuesday was a fantastic success for Iranian players. As evidenced by their success in the 2016 Olympiad and the emergence of prodigies like GM Alireza Firouzja, Iran is becoming quite a strong chess country. With two trips (top male and topβ¦
π΅ #Nakamura_chess_quotes_001
πΉ Hikaru Nakamura
πΉ Japanese-American Chess Grandmaster
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πΉ Hikaru Nakamura
πΉ Japanese-American Chess Grandmaster
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π΅ #about_Nakamura
πΉ Hikaru Nakamura
πΉ Japanese-American Chess Grandmaster
β¦οΈ Hikaru Nakamura is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster. He is a four-time United States Chess Champion, who won the 2011 edition of Tata Steel Group A and represented the United States at five Chess Olympiads, winning a team gold medal and two team bronze medals. He has also written a book about bullet chess called Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate.
π Full name: Hikaru Nakamura
π Country: United States
π Born: December 9, 1987
Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
π Title: Grandmaster
π FIDE rating: 2769 (June 2018)
π Peak rating: 2816 (October 2015)
π Ranking: No. 6 (April 2018)
π Peak ranking: No. 2 (October 2015)
β¦οΈNakamura was born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, to a Japanese father, Shuichi Nakamura, and an American mother, Carolyn Merrow Nakamura, a classically trained musician and former public school teacher. When he was two years of age his family moved to the United States. Nakamura's parents divorced in 1990, when he was 3 years old. He began playing chess prior to the age of five and was coached by his Sri Lankan stepfather, FIDE Master and chess author Sunil Weeramantry.
β¦οΈNakamura's peak USCF rating was 2900 in August 2015.[3] In October 2015, he reached his peak FIDE rating of 2816, which ranked him second in the world. In May 2014, when FIDE began publishing official rapid and blitz chess ratings, Nakamura ranked number one in the world on both lists.
β¦οΈ A memorable , tactical and dynamic game by Nakamura against Gelfand which known "I Am the One Who Naks" in chessgames.com site!!ππΌππΌ
πΈ Boris Gelfand vs Hikaru Nakamura
πΈ World Team Championship (2010), Bursa TUR, rd 5, Jan-09
πΈ King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Modern System (E97)
β¦οΈ Review and download PGN fileππΌππΌ
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πΉ Hikaru Nakamura
πΉ Japanese-American Chess Grandmaster
β¦οΈ Hikaru Nakamura is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster. He is a four-time United States Chess Champion, who won the 2011 edition of Tata Steel Group A and represented the United States at five Chess Olympiads, winning a team gold medal and two team bronze medals. He has also written a book about bullet chess called Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate.
π Full name: Hikaru Nakamura
π Country: United States
π Born: December 9, 1987
Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
π Title: Grandmaster
π FIDE rating: 2769 (June 2018)
π Peak rating: 2816 (October 2015)
π Ranking: No. 6 (April 2018)
π Peak ranking: No. 2 (October 2015)
β¦οΈNakamura was born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, to a Japanese father, Shuichi Nakamura, and an American mother, Carolyn Merrow Nakamura, a classically trained musician and former public school teacher. When he was two years of age his family moved to the United States. Nakamura's parents divorced in 1990, when he was 3 years old. He began playing chess prior to the age of five and was coached by his Sri Lankan stepfather, FIDE Master and chess author Sunil Weeramantry.
β¦οΈNakamura's peak USCF rating was 2900 in August 2015.[3] In October 2015, he reached his peak FIDE rating of 2816, which ranked him second in the world. In May 2014, when FIDE began publishing official rapid and blitz chess ratings, Nakamura ranked number one in the world on both lists.
β¦οΈ A memorable , tactical and dynamic game by Nakamura against Gelfand which known "I Am the One Who Naks" in chessgames.com site!!ππΌππΌ
πΈ Boris Gelfand vs Hikaru Nakamura
πΈ World Team Championship (2010), Bursa TUR, rd 5, Jan-09
πΈ King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Modern System (E97)
β¦οΈ Review and download PGN fileππΌππΌ
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9...eΓf3
Almost three decades have passed since Kasparov surprised Karpov by introducing the English Opening as a main weapon in the 1987 Seville match, but the theoretical discussion still seems far from reaching an end. In the first match of the game the surprise turned out to be a boomerang when Karpov reacted here with 9...e3!? , a novelty he had prepared for his earlier matches with Korchnoi but which he had never got the chance to use. Taken away from his analysed lines, Kasparov thought a lot before playing 10.d3 , eventually got into severe time trouble and lost. Based on the fact that Karpov did not repeat 9...e3 in later games, many commentators including Kasparov and some of his seconds claimed that 10.d3 was some sort of refutation of Karpov's idea. But then I wonder why in a much later game Kasparov,G (2827)-Sadvakasov,D (2585) Astana 2001 (Β½-Β½, 43) Kasparov deviated with 10.dxe3.
Be it as it may, the game Svidler,P (2757)-Karjakin,S (2760) Moscow 2016 (Β½-Β½, 50) played two rounds earlier than Caruana-Anand went 10.d3 and Black eventually came under serious positional pressure.
10.NΓf3 d5 11.d4 dΓx4 12.Bg5
Almost three decades have passed since Kasparov surprised Karpov by introducing the English Opening as a main weapon in the 1987 Seville match, but the theoretical discussion still seems far from reaching an end. In the first match of the game the surprise turned out to be a boomerang when Karpov reacted here with 9...e3!? , a novelty he had prepared for his earlier matches with Korchnoi but which he had never got the chance to use. Taken away from his analysed lines, Kasparov thought a lot before playing 10.d3 , eventually got into severe time trouble and lost. Based on the fact that Karpov did not repeat 9...e3 in later games, many commentators including Kasparov and some of his seconds claimed that 10.d3 was some sort of refutation of Karpov's idea. But then I wonder why in a much later game Kasparov,G (2827)-Sadvakasov,D (2585) Astana 2001 (Β½-Β½, 43) Kasparov deviated with 10.dxe3.
Be it as it may, the game Svidler,P (2757)-Karjakin,S (2760) Moscow 2016 (Β½-Β½, 50) played two rounds earlier than Caruana-Anand went 10.d3 and Black eventually came under serious positional pressure.
10.NΓf3 d5 11.d4 dΓx4 12.Bg5
19. Nf6+!
A typical Knight sacrifice by Nakamura.
19...Kh8
19... gxf6 20. Rxf6 Qf8 21. Rxh6 Qg7 22. Be4 Kf8 23. Rh7 Qg4 24. Rxf7+ Bxf7 25. Qxg4 +-
20. d5 Bxd5 21. Bxd5 Rxd5 22. Nxe8 Rxe5 23. Qxf7 Qxe8 24. Qxe8+ Rxe8 25. Rae1 +-
A typical Knight sacrifice by Nakamura.
19...Kh8
19... gxf6 20. Rxf6 Qf8 21. Rxh6 Qg7 22. Be4 Kf8 23. Rh7 Qg4 24. Rxf7+ Bxf7 25. Qxg4 +-
20. d5 Bxd5 21. Bxd5 Rxd5 22. Nxe8 Rxe5 23. Qxf7 Qxe8 24. Qxe8+ Rxe8 25. Rae1 +-
20.Re2!
A deep strategic move in order to clear the e1-square for the knight. White intends to regroup his pieces more harmoniously: Ne1 >Bc2 > Bb3 >Nd3.
20...Raf8 21.Ne1 Ne7 22.Bc2 a5 23.Bb3 Rg7 24.Qd3 Bd7! 25.a4 Kh8 26.Qd2 h5 27.Nd3
A deep strategic move in order to clear the e1-square for the knight. White intends to regroup his pieces more harmoniously: Ne1 >Bc2 > Bb3 >Nd3.
20...Raf8 21.Ne1 Ne7 22.Bc2 a5 23.Bb3 Rg7 24.Qd3 Bd7! 25.a4 Kh8 26.Qd2 h5 27.Nd3
42...Ra8
White's most powerful move to finish the game was 42...Kg7! (with the idea of ...g4).
43.Ke2! Ra1 44.Kd3 b5 45.c4 bΓc4 46.KΓc4 Qf4! 47.Qe2?
47.QΓf4 offers more resistance.
47...Qc1+ 48.Kb5 Qc8 49.Kb6 Qb8+ 50.Kc6 Rc1+ 0-1
White's most powerful move to finish the game was 42...Kg7! (with the idea of ...g4).
43.Ke2! Ra1 44.Kd3 b5 45.c4 bΓc4 46.KΓc4 Qf4! 47.Qe2?
47.QΓf4 offers more resistance.
47...Qc1+ 48.Kb5 Qc8 49.Kb6 Qb8+ 50.Kc6 Rc1+ 0-1
15.Nb1!
The routine 15.Nf1 would have weakened White's fighting potential on the queenside β 15...cxd5 16.cxd5 Rac8 etc. But now he is planning an offensive with Nc3, Bd2, b2-b4 and so on.
15...Bf8?! 16.Nc3 c5?
And this is already a serious positional mistake (Tarrasch would have written 'decisive'), the direct consequence of Black's discomfort and psychological problems. Georgadze was aiming to avoid the 'dangerous' opening of the position and to play as solidly as possible, but here 'solidly' signifies passively. Even with a loss of time, he should have reverted to the plan with ...cxd5.
17.Ba4!
With this central pawn structure, it has become advantageous for White to exchange the light-squared bishops, especially since the prospects for the remaining dark-square bishops are so different.
The routine 15.Nf1 would have weakened White's fighting potential on the queenside β 15...cxd5 16.cxd5 Rac8 etc. But now he is planning an offensive with Nc3, Bd2, b2-b4 and so on.
15...Bf8?! 16.Nc3 c5?
And this is already a serious positional mistake (Tarrasch would have written 'decisive'), the direct consequence of Black's discomfort and psychological problems. Georgadze was aiming to avoid the 'dangerous' opening of the position and to play as solidly as possible, but here 'solidly' signifies passively. Even with a loss of time, he should have reverted to the plan with ...cxd5.
17.Ba4!
With this central pawn structure, it has become advantageous for White to exchange the light-squared bishops, especially since the prospects for the remaining dark-square bishops are so different.