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📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 30

B: g4 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%

C: Qc2 – 3
👍👍👍 27%

A: b3 – 1
👍 9%

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🔹🔺 The interesting and tactical moments of the World Cup Round 6 Tie -Breaks 🔹🔺
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Lagrave Vachier
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺1-0
🔺14.Bc6
In the previous round in the classic section, MVL tried 14.h3 Bd7!
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Lagrave Vachier
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺1-0
🔺MVL prefered 39.Ref2+/-
Carlsen could have entered a technical endgame in this position by playing
39. f.g6 f.g6 40. N.e5 d.e5 41.Qf6 Q.f6 42.R.f6
White controls the only open file of the board which will allow him attack a5 or c5 weaknesses.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Wesley So
⚫️Liren Ding
🔺½-½
🔺7...Na5
Among top level grandmasters, Alexander Onischuk, the US champ of 2006, was the first who has defended the pawn by Na5 in 1996.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Wesley So
⚫️Liren Ding
🔺½-½
🔺13...Bc6!
Controling an important diagonal and transfering the bishop to d5.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Wesley So
⚫️Liren Ding
🔺½-½
🔺Instead on 39...Bf5?! Black could finish white off by playing 39...fg3 and 40...h5, making a second passed pawn.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 2
⚪️Levon Aronian
⚫️Lagrave Vachier
🔺1-0
🔺 Aronian was in a win or die situation! In a Tal style, he sacrifice a piece to open a file on black's king by playing 14.Bc4!?N
In previous games 14.Ne2 had been played three times.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Wesley So
⚫️Liren Ding
🔺½-½
🔺Black let white activate his pieces by playing 42...R.f3 43.Rb7+ Ke8 44.Nb4
He could first move his king to a safe and active position by playing 42...Kf7 -+ which prevents the activation of white's pieces.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 2
⚪️Levon Aronian
⚫️Lagrave Vachier
🔺½-½
8...e5

For the first time, in 1965, Leonid Shamkovich played this active line.

Iranian GM, Shahin Larpari Zangane also has 2 games in this line.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 3
⚪️Levon Aronian
⚫️Lagrave Vachier
🔺½-½

Black sacrificed 2 pawns for getting initiative and bishop pair.
🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 6 Rapid Game 4
⚪️Lagrave Vachier
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺½-½