Unity Chess Multiple Choice 498
public poll
A: d5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 70%
Gavin, @Afshin3333, Nikhil, Ramesh, فیروزه, @roshan_sethuraman, @RichardPeng
C: a4 – 2
👍👍 20%
@Sophia_Peng, Atharva
B: Be3 – 1
👍 10%
Mieke
👥 10 people voted so far.
public poll
A: d5 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 70%
Gavin, @Afshin3333, Nikhil, Ramesh, فیروزه, @roshan_sethuraman, @RichardPeng
C: a4 – 2
👍👍 20%
@Sophia_Peng, Atharva
B: Be3 – 1
👍 10%
Mieke
👥 10 people voted so far.
🔷 #about_Sokolov
🔹 Ivan Sokolov
🔹 Dutch Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Ivan Sokolov is a Dutch chess grandmaster. Sokolov won the 1988 Yugoslav Championship and in 1995 and 1998 the Dutch Championship. Before earning the GM title, he became a FIDE Master in 1985 and an International Master in 1986.
🔘 Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Netherlands
🔘 Born: June 13, 1968 (age 50)
Jajce, SFR Yugoslavia
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 FIDE rating: 2565 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2706 (January 2004)
♦️Ivan Sokolov was born on the 13th of June 1968 in Bosnia (formerly Yugoslavia). Awarded the GM title in 1987 and Yugoslav Champion in 1988 he was 1st= at Portoroz 1987, 1st= in Belgrade and 1st= in Saltsjöbaden. He also played on the Yugoslav Olympiad team in 1988. He now represents the Netherlands in Olympiads and various other team championships.
♦️Sokolov has said in one of his interviewes:
"I started to play chess in 1974 when I was six years old. I learnt the game from my father who was an amateur chess player. I joined the Chess Club Bosna where I remained a member for almost the next thirty years. As I improved at the game I participated in Junior tournaments, did well and this is more or less how it all began.'
♦️ Sokolov In 1987 and 1993 he won the Vidmar Memorial.
In 2000 he won the 1st European Rapid Chess Championship in Neum edging out on tiebreak Alexey Dreev and Zurab Azmaiparashvili.
♦️ GM Ivan Sokolov is Iran National Chess Team Coach now. He is a strong chess writer and chess games analyser!!
♦️ A memorable game by Sokolov against Kasparov in Wijk aan Zee 1999 which named "Put a Sok in It" in chessgames.com site!!
🔸 Ivan Sokolov vs Garry Kasparov
🔸 Hoogovens (1999), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 9, Jan-26
🔸 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Variation. Bernstein Defense (E58)
♦️ Review and download analysed by Sokolov PGN file👇👇
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🔹 Ivan Sokolov
🔹 Dutch Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Ivan Sokolov is a Dutch chess grandmaster. Sokolov won the 1988 Yugoslav Championship and in 1995 and 1998 the Dutch Championship. Before earning the GM title, he became a FIDE Master in 1985 and an International Master in 1986.
🔘 Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Netherlands
🔘 Born: June 13, 1968 (age 50)
Jajce, SFR Yugoslavia
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 FIDE rating: 2565 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2706 (January 2004)
♦️Ivan Sokolov was born on the 13th of June 1968 in Bosnia (formerly Yugoslavia). Awarded the GM title in 1987 and Yugoslav Champion in 1988 he was 1st= at Portoroz 1987, 1st= in Belgrade and 1st= in Saltsjöbaden. He also played on the Yugoslav Olympiad team in 1988. He now represents the Netherlands in Olympiads and various other team championships.
♦️Sokolov has said in one of his interviewes:
"I started to play chess in 1974 when I was six years old. I learnt the game from my father who was an amateur chess player. I joined the Chess Club Bosna where I remained a member for almost the next thirty years. As I improved at the game I participated in Junior tournaments, did well and this is more or less how it all began.'
♦️ Sokolov In 1987 and 1993 he won the Vidmar Memorial.
In 2000 he won the 1st European Rapid Chess Championship in Neum edging out on tiebreak Alexey Dreev and Zurab Azmaiparashvili.
♦️ GM Ivan Sokolov is Iran National Chess Team Coach now. He is a strong chess writer and chess games analyser!!
♦️ A memorable game by Sokolov against Kasparov in Wijk aan Zee 1999 which named "Put a Sok in It" in chessgames.com site!!
🔸 Ivan Sokolov vs Garry Kasparov
🔸 Hoogovens (1999), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 9, Jan-26
🔸 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Variation. Bernstein Defense (E58)
♦️ Review and download analysed by Sokolov PGN file👇👇
@unitychess
@Sokolov-Kasparov.pgn
1.6 KB
🔹 Ivan Sokolov - Garry Kasparov, Hoogovens (1999), Wijk aan Zee NED
🔹 PGN format
🔹 Analysed by Ivan Sokolov
🔹 From Sokolov's book, "The Strategic Nimzo Indian."
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🔹 PGN format
🔹 Analysed by Ivan Sokolov
🔹 From Sokolov's book, "The Strategic Nimzo Indian."
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Grandmaster Ossip Bernstein (born in Zhitomir, Russian Empire, 1882, died in France, 1962) pictured at the IBM 'B' tournament in Amsterdam, 5th June 1961.
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Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-American novelist and a composer of chess problems, playing chess with his wife Vera.
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" If you play the Caro-Kann when you're young, what are you going to play when you're older."
🔹 Bent Larsen
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🔹 Bent Larsen
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27. Nxh4?
The most accurate move is: 27.Ne5!=.
27... Bxd4 28. Qb1 Rb5 29. Bxd4+ Nxd4+ 30. Qe4 Qxe4+ 31. Rxe4 Nxb3 -/+
The most accurate move is: 27.Ne5!=.
27... Bxd4 28. Qb1 Rb5 29. Bxd4+ Nxd4+ 30. Qe4 Qxe4+ 31. Rxe4 Nxb3 -/+
Black has several ways to win the game and Tabatabaei chooses the most spectacular one.
50...K×f5! 51.h7 Ne4 0-1
52.h8=Q Ng5+ 53.Kh4 Rh2#
50...K×f5! 51.h7 Ne4 0-1
52.h8=Q Ng5+ 53.Kh4 Rh2#
29.Bc4!
The former World U-18 champion shows his calculation skills.
29...N×c4 30.d5! Qe7? 31.d×c6 N×e5 32.c×b7 Rb8 33.Qc5 1-0
The former World U-18 champion shows his calculation skills.
29...N×c4 30.d5! Qe7? 31.d×c6 N×e5 32.c×b7 Rb8 33.Qc5 1-0
37...Rd8?
37...Re8!
The only move to retain Black's advantage.
38.d×e4 R×e4 39.Rgg3 Q×h4 -/+
(39.R×e4 Q×e4 40.Q×e4 R×e4 -+)
38.d×e4 f4 39.Rd3 R×e4 =
37...Re8!
The only move to retain Black's advantage.
38.d×e4 R×e4 39.Rgg3 Q×h4 -/+
(39.R×e4 Q×e4 40.Q×e4 R×e4 -+)
38.d×e4 f4 39.Rd3 R×e4 =