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⚪️#531 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Morphy,P
🔸Bird,H
🔸London, 1858
22.Kh1!
This quiet move is the way to add fresh impetus to the white attack. It breaks the pin on f2, after which a fearsome new weapon is added to White's arsenal: the line-breaking f-pawn.
22...h5
Bird responds with a pawn advance of his own, but at best it can be supported by the queen and rook on h8, while all White's pieces are at hand to support the f-pawn.
23.f4 h4 24.f5 Qh5 25.Rf4! f6?? 26.Nxf6! gxf6 27.Rg4++-.
If the black king staggers away then a queen check on e7 will mate him in at most three moves.
⚪️#532 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Geller,E
🔸Korchnoi,V
🔸Havana, 1963
27.Ne2!!
I don't know what the reader thinks, but I'm always impressed by regrouping moves of this kind. Geller intends a breakthrough with Nf4 and e5-e6 and there is nothing that Black can do about it.
27...Ba5 28.Rf1 Qd7 29.Nf4 Kg8 30.e6! fxe6 31.Qg4!+-
⚪️#533 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Geller,E
🔸Smyslov,V
🔸5th matchgame, Moscow, 1965
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 533
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B: f5 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 79%
Jonas, Gavin, @Afshin3333, Ramesh, Jahanbakhsh, Mieke, @SinaKhansharifan, @RichardPeng, Adhvaith, Vedant, Michael

C: Qe1 – 3
👍👍 21%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Vincent, @Sophia_Peng

A: Rc2
▫️ 0%

👥 14 people voted so far.
⚪️#534 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Bronstein,D
🔸Keres,P
🔸Candidates Tournament, Budapest, 1950
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 534
public poll

A: Qd1 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 53%
Jonas, Gavin, @Afshin3333, Ramesh, Jahanbakhsh, فیروزه, Adhvaith, @Amjedchess

B: a4 – 4
👍👍👍👍 27%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, Mieke, @SiNa9849, @SophiaCat_does_Chess

C: Bg5 – 3
👍👍👍 20%
Vincent, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, Michael

👥 15 people voted so far.
A very interesting #rapidchess tournament is taking place in #Jerusalem.
Gideon Japhet Cup features 6 strong GMs: Ian Nepomniachtchi, Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Anna Muzychuk, Vassily Ivanchuk and Georg Meier.

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