Unity Chess Multiple Choice 501
public poll
C: Q×b6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 47%
@Shadowoffhollow, Jonas, @AbZarafshan, Nikhil, Mieke, @Sophia_Peng, Adhvaith
A: Rc1 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
@Hamed_85, @Hesamgrandterminator, @soheil_hooshdaran, Ramesh, Vincent, @AryanLeekha
B: Nc3 – 2
👍👍 13%
Gavin, @RichardPeng
👥 15 people voted so far.
public poll
C: Q×b6 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 47%
@Shadowoffhollow, Jonas, @AbZarafshan, Nikhil, Mieke, @Sophia_Peng, Adhvaith
A: Rc1 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%
@Hamed_85, @Hesamgrandterminator, @soheil_hooshdaran, Ramesh, Vincent, @AryanLeekha
B: Nc3 – 2
👍👍 13%
Gavin, @RichardPeng
👥 15 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 502
public poll
C: b4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
@Hamed_85, @Hesamgrandterminator, @Shadowoffhollow, Gavin, @AbZarafshan, Nikhil, Ramesh, Vincent, @RichardPeng, Adhvaith
A: Rac1 – 5
👍👍👍👍 33%
Jonas, Mieke, @Sophia_Peng, Lanya, @AryanLeekha
B: B×b7
▫️ 0%
👥 15 people voted so far.
public poll
C: b4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
@Hamed_85, @Hesamgrandterminator, @Shadowoffhollow, Gavin, @AbZarafshan, Nikhil, Ramesh, Vincent, @RichardPeng, Adhvaith
A: Rac1 – 5
👍👍👍👍 33%
Jonas, Mieke, @Sophia_Peng, Lanya, @AryanLeekha
B: B×b7
▫️ 0%
👥 15 people voted so far.
🅾️ #about_Svidler
♦️ Peter Svidler
♦️ Russian Chess Grandmaster
🔰 Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster. He is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. He is also a commentator and regularly contributes to Chess24.com.
🔘 Full name: Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler
🔘 Country: Russia
🔘 Born: 17 June 1976 ... Agae 42 (Today is his birth-day) 🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1994)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2753 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2769 (May 2013)
🔘 Ranking: No. 10 (January 2018)
🔘 Peak ranking: No. 4 (January 2004)
🔰 Svidler learned to play chess when he was six years old and had his first trainer in Viacheslav Stjazhkin. He made his tournament debut in 1989, scoring 5 points from 11 games at the USSR Junior Championship in Pinsk. He scored 7/11 for tied eighth place in the USSR Juniors in 1990 and 5/9 in Oakland. He became an International Master in 1991 and the following year tied for first place with Ragim Gasimov and Vadim Zvjaginsev in the last USSR Junior Championship in Yurmala, scoring 8/11.
Svidler twice attended the Botvinnik-Kasparov School. One of those sessions was during the Baleares Open in Mallorca in December 1989. He transferred to the Dvoretsky-Yusupov School upon the former's closure. Mark Dvoretsky said that Svidler had to get written consent from Kasparov's mother in order to avoid accusations of taking students from that school.
Svidler has competed in three World Championship tournaments—in the period with split title the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and 2005, and after reunification the World Chess Championship 2007. He also played in three Candidates Tournaments, in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Svidler assisted Vladimir Kramnik at the Classical World Championship matches in 2000 and 2004.
Eight-time Russian Champion (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2017), he has represented Russia at the Chess Olympiad ten times (1994-2010, 2014) winning five team gold medals, two team silvers and an individual bronze. Svidler won the Chess World Cup 2011, was runner-up in the World Blitz Championship in 2006 and won at Fontys Tilburg, Biel and Gibraltar. Svidler also tied for first at Dortmund, Aeroflot Open and Karpov Poikovsky.
♦️ A memorable game by Svidler against Levon Aronian which has won him in 24 moves!!👇
🔸 Levon Aronian vs Peter Svidler
🔸 Tal Memorial (2006), Moscow RUS, rd 3, Nov-08
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: General (D80)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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♦️ Peter Svidler
♦️ Russian Chess Grandmaster
🔰 Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster. He is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. He is also a commentator and regularly contributes to Chess24.com.
🔘 Full name: Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler
🔘 Country: Russia
🔘 Born: 17 June 1976 ... Agae 42 (Today is his birth-day) 🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1994)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2753 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2769 (May 2013)
🔘 Ranking: No. 10 (January 2018)
🔘 Peak ranking: No. 4 (January 2004)
🔰 Svidler learned to play chess when he was six years old and had his first trainer in Viacheslav Stjazhkin. He made his tournament debut in 1989, scoring 5 points from 11 games at the USSR Junior Championship in Pinsk. He scored 7/11 for tied eighth place in the USSR Juniors in 1990 and 5/9 in Oakland. He became an International Master in 1991 and the following year tied for first place with Ragim Gasimov and Vadim Zvjaginsev in the last USSR Junior Championship in Yurmala, scoring 8/11.
Svidler twice attended the Botvinnik-Kasparov School. One of those sessions was during the Baleares Open in Mallorca in December 1989. He transferred to the Dvoretsky-Yusupov School upon the former's closure. Mark Dvoretsky said that Svidler had to get written consent from Kasparov's mother in order to avoid accusations of taking students from that school.
Svidler has competed in three World Championship tournaments—in the period with split title the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and 2005, and after reunification the World Chess Championship 2007. He also played in three Candidates Tournaments, in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Svidler assisted Vladimir Kramnik at the Classical World Championship matches in 2000 and 2004.
Eight-time Russian Champion (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2017), he has represented Russia at the Chess Olympiad ten times (1994-2010, 2014) winning five team gold medals, two team silvers and an individual bronze. Svidler won the Chess World Cup 2011, was runner-up in the World Blitz Championship in 2006 and won at Fontys Tilburg, Biel and Gibraltar. Svidler also tied for first at Dortmund, Aeroflot Open and Karpov Poikovsky.
♦️ A memorable game by Svidler against Levon Aronian which has won him in 24 moves!!👇
🔸 Levon Aronian vs Peter Svidler
🔸 Tal Memorial (2006), Moscow RUS, rd 3, Nov-08
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: General (D80)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
@unitychess
FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2018 (open & girls under 20) will be held in Kocaeli - Gebze, Turkey from September 4th to 16th 2018.
#chessnews #WJCC2018
#chessnews #WJCC2018
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Grandmasters Nakamura and Vachier-Lagrave play a casual game ... without a board! GM Aronian looks on and comments.
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♦️ Tigran Petrosian
♦️ Soviet Armenian Grandmaster
🔸Born: June 17, 1929, Tbilisi, Georgia
🔸 Died: August 13, 1984, Moscow, Russia
@unitychess
♦️ Soviet Armenian Grandmaster
🔸Born: June 17, 1929, Tbilisi, Georgia
🔸 Died: August 13, 1984, Moscow, Russia
@unitychess
4...b6!?
An interesting pawn sacrifice which was introduced by English GM Jonathan Penrose in 1958.
5.d×c5 b×c5 6.Qd5 Nc6 7.Q×c5 Bb7 8.Nbd2 Nf6 9.Bg2 0-0 10.0-0 a5 11.Ne5 Rc8 12.Qb5 Rb8
An interesting pawn sacrifice which was introduced by English GM Jonathan Penrose in 1958.
5.d×c5 b×c5 6.Qd5 Nc6 7.Q×c5 Bb7 8.Nbd2 Nf6 9.Bg2 0-0 10.0-0 a5 11.Ne5 Rc8 12.Qb5 Rb8