9.Ne2!
Clearing the way for the plan of Rc1 and c2-c4, when a line of attack is opened against the c7-pawn.
9...Be7?
Up until here, Karpov has played a competent, if rather uninspired, defence in the style of Petrosian. But now he puts the bishop on a square where it blocks in the knight on g8. Just how is the poor horse meant to get into the game, seeing that ...Nh6 can always be answered by Bxh6 breaking up Black's kingside pawns?
Experienced French players realize that in this type of scenario you either have to go right back with the bishop to f8, which is risky here as White is poised for a quick Rc1 and c2-c4 or else exchange with 9...Bxd2, which looks like the best idea. Karpov tries to keep his 'good' bishop but he wants more than the position is willing to give him. As a result, he will end up being horribly mangled. If you have ever wondered how a player like Morphy would fare in a modern chess tournament, with no knowledge of the development of the game since his own time, then Karpov's play in the present game makes for a pessimistic forecast. Karpov was the reigning World Champion, young, fresh, gifted with a fine grasp of strategy, in short on top of his game. Yet when he is forced into a pawn structure that is unfamiliar to him, with no theoretical knowledge to fill in the gaps in his understanding, he is completely at sea. If Morphy faced a modern player, he would be confronted with pawn structures and technical riddles that he couldn't solve over the board. The American was undoubtedly a genius in the field of chess. But if he were playing a modern elite player, his genius would be overwhelmed by a host of genii from later ages: the ideas of Steinitz, Rubinstein, Capablanca, Fischer, Kasparov and many others would be showing his opponent how to outwit him in the opening and middlegame. On the other hand, Morphy had a fantastic capacity for assimilating the ideas of players he met and using them to refine his own understanding of the game. If Morphy were given a year to study modern theory he would undoubtedly emerge as one of the best players in the world.
10.Rc1 b5
Karpov does his best to mute the power of the c2-c4 breakthrough, but it can't be prevented forever.
11.Nf4
With ideas of 12 Nh5.
11...h5 12.b3 Ba3 13.Rb1 a5 14.c4 c6 15.c5!+/-
Geller shows his excellent judgment. It seems paradoxical that he closes the queenside, but he is about to give his opponent an ultimatum: if you don't open lines for me I'm going to trap your bishop.
Clearing the way for the plan of Rc1 and c2-c4, when a line of attack is opened against the c7-pawn.
9...Be7?
Up until here, Karpov has played a competent, if rather uninspired, defence in the style of Petrosian. But now he puts the bishop on a square where it blocks in the knight on g8. Just how is the poor horse meant to get into the game, seeing that ...Nh6 can always be answered by Bxh6 breaking up Black's kingside pawns?
Experienced French players realize that in this type of scenario you either have to go right back with the bishop to f8, which is risky here as White is poised for a quick Rc1 and c2-c4 or else exchange with 9...Bxd2, which looks like the best idea. Karpov tries to keep his 'good' bishop but he wants more than the position is willing to give him. As a result, he will end up being horribly mangled. If you have ever wondered how a player like Morphy would fare in a modern chess tournament, with no knowledge of the development of the game since his own time, then Karpov's play in the present game makes for a pessimistic forecast. Karpov was the reigning World Champion, young, fresh, gifted with a fine grasp of strategy, in short on top of his game. Yet when he is forced into a pawn structure that is unfamiliar to him, with no theoretical knowledge to fill in the gaps in his understanding, he is completely at sea. If Morphy faced a modern player, he would be confronted with pawn structures and technical riddles that he couldn't solve over the board. The American was undoubtedly a genius in the field of chess. But if he were playing a modern elite player, his genius would be overwhelmed by a host of genii from later ages: the ideas of Steinitz, Rubinstein, Capablanca, Fischer, Kasparov and many others would be showing his opponent how to outwit him in the opening and middlegame. On the other hand, Morphy had a fantastic capacity for assimilating the ideas of players he met and using them to refine his own understanding of the game. If Morphy were given a year to study modern theory he would undoubtedly emerge as one of the best players in the world.
10.Rc1 b5
Karpov does his best to mute the power of the c2-c4 breakthrough, but it can't be prevented forever.
11.Nf4
With ideas of 12 Nh5.
11...h5 12.b3 Ba3 13.Rb1 a5 14.c4 c6 15.c5!+/-
Geller shows his excellent judgment. It seems paradoxical that he closes the queenside, but he is about to give his opponent an ultimatum: if you don't open lines for me I'm going to trap your bishop.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 527
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A: Be4 – 8
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B: c3 – 1
👍 10%
Jayden
C: h6 – 1
👍 10%
Gavin
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A: Be4 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
@Ako1983, Jonas, Kenneth, Ramesh, Jahanbakhsh, فیروزه, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha
B: c3 – 1
👍 10%
Jayden
C: h6 – 1
👍 10%
Gavin
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 528
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B: Qd3 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 46%
@Shadowoffhollow, Jonas, Ramesh, Jayden, @Hamidhamidian, Atharva
C: e5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 31%
@Ako1983, @hosssein_G, Jahanbakhsh, @AryanLeekha
A: Bf6 – 3
👍👍👍👍 23%
Gavin, @RichardPeng, @esauwoira13
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B: Qd3 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 46%
@Shadowoffhollow, Jonas, Ramesh, Jayden, @Hamidhamidian, Atharva
C: e5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 31%
@Ako1983, @hosssein_G, Jahanbakhsh, @AryanLeekha
A: Bf6 – 3
👍👍👍👍 23%
Gavin, @RichardPeng, @esauwoira13
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Fischer vs Larsen, the front cover of the September 1971 Chess Life & Review. Taken from E. Winter's "Chess Seconds"
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✴️ #about_Sveshnikov
🔸 Evgeny Sveshnikov
🔸 Russian chess grandmaster and Author
🔰 Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov is a Russian grandmaster of chess and a chess author.
Full name: Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov
Country: Soviet Union Russia
Latvia (2002–2015)
Born: 11 February 1950 (age 68)
Cheliabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title: Grandmaster (1977)
FIDE rating: 2464 (June 2018)
Peak rating: 2610 (January 1994)
🔰 Sveshnikov played in his first USSR Chess Championship when he was 17 years old. He was awarded by FIDE the titles International Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1977.
🔰 In earliest international competition he was a joint winner at Decin 1974, shared first place (with Lev Polugaevsky) at Sochi 1976 and won category 8 tournaments at Le Havre 1977 and Cienfuegos 1979. At Novi Sad in 1979, he shared second prize with Efim Geller behind Florin Gheorghiu. At Wijk aan Zee in 1981, he shared 3rd place and in 1983, was joint champion of Moscow. Sveshnikov won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010.
♦️ A memorable game by Sveshnikov👇
🔸 Evgeni Ellinovich Sveshnikov vs Vsevolod Dzjuba
🔸 Olaine Open Rapid (2017), Olaine LAT, rd 5, Nov-26
🔸Sicilian Defense: 2.b3 Variation (B20)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Evgeny Sveshnikov
🔸 Russian chess grandmaster and Author
🔰 Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov is a Russian grandmaster of chess and a chess author.
Full name: Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov
Country: Soviet Union Russia
Latvia (2002–2015)
Born: 11 February 1950 (age 68)
Cheliabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title: Grandmaster (1977)
FIDE rating: 2464 (June 2018)
Peak rating: 2610 (January 1994)
🔰 Sveshnikov played in his first USSR Chess Championship when he was 17 years old. He was awarded by FIDE the titles International Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1977.
🔰 In earliest international competition he was a joint winner at Decin 1974, shared first place (with Lev Polugaevsky) at Sochi 1976 and won category 8 tournaments at Le Havre 1977 and Cienfuegos 1979. At Novi Sad in 1979, he shared second prize with Efim Geller behind Florin Gheorghiu. At Wijk aan Zee in 1981, he shared 3rd place and in 1983, was joint champion of Moscow. Sveshnikov won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010.
♦️ A memorable game by Sveshnikov👇
🔸 Evgeni Ellinovich Sveshnikov vs Vsevolod Dzjuba
🔸 Olaine Open Rapid (2017), Olaine LAT, rd 5, Nov-26
🔸Sicilian Defense: 2.b3 Variation (B20)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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25.h4!
White has a bishop pair in an open position. With this move, he starts pushing his kingside majority and gains space on the kingside where he plans to attack.
25...h6 26.Qb8 Kh7 27.Qf4 Nd6 28.g4 +/=
White has a bishop pair in an open position. With this move, he starts pushing his kingside majority and gains space on the kingside where he plans to attack.
25...h6 26.Qb8 Kh7 27.Qf4 Nd6 28.g4 +/=
50...c3??
Karjakin has just got rid of a difficult position, ruins everything with this blunder.
50...Bc6 or Ke8 =
51.d7 1-0
If 51...Ke7, then 52.f6+.
Karjakin has just got rid of a difficult position, ruins everything with this blunder.
50...Bc6 or Ke8 =
51.d7 1-0
If 51...Ke7, then 52.f6+.
71.Qb6??
Fabiano Caruana blundered in a drawn ending.
71.Qf7
A)71...g5+ 72.Kg4 R×g3+ 73.Kf5 g×f4 74.Q×f6+ Kh7 75.Qf7+ =
B)71...R×g3 72.Qf8+ Kh7 73.Qf7+ = White draws by perpetual check.
71...R×g3 0-1
72.Q×f6 followed by 72...Rh3+ 73.Kg4 Rdg3#
Fabiano Caruana blundered in a drawn ending.
71.Qf7
A)71...g5+ 72.Kg4 R×g3+ 73.Kf5 g×f4 74.Q×f6+ Kh7 75.Qf7+ =
B)71...R×g3 72.Qf8+ Kh7 73.Qf7+ = White draws by perpetual check.
71...R×g3 0-1
72.Q×f6 followed by 72...Rh3+ 73.Kg4 Rdg3#