⚪️#605 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸askett,J
🔸Shipov,S
🔸Hastings, 1999

12.Ng5!
Grandmaster Jim Plaskett implied that his opponent probably already had a lost position. His view certainly seems justified by the game continuation:
12...Nf6 13.Nb6 Qc7 14.Nc4! fxe4 15.Ne6 Qc8 16.f5!
The defence for Black is not easy, White is not ready to trade is superstrong knight e6 for some material advantage.
16...Rg8 17.Nb6 exd3 18.cxd3 Qb8 19.fxg6 Bh8 20.g7! Bxg7 21.Bg5+-
This energetic move neatly combines the defense of g2 square with the development and attack.

⚫️#606 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Hawes,J
🔸Ward,C
🔸Jersey, 2000

At first glance, the position seems finely balanced with arguably White's kingside offensive plan being the easier to implement, but...
9...Nd4!
The move is very awkward:
10.Nxd4 cxd4 11.Nd1 dxe4 12.dxe4 Bb4+ 13.Bd2 Bxd2+ 14.Kxd2
When the white king has been embarrassed and he is left with a bad bishop and a worse pawn structure too.
14...0-0 15.Ne2 e5! 16.f5
16.fxe5 Nd7-/+
16...a5 17.Rhc1 Ba6-/+

⚫️#607 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Brochet,P
🔸Hebden,M
🔸French Team Championship, 1998

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 607
public poll

C: g5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 67%
Esmaeil, @Sophia_Peng, مجید, Atharva, Zhenrui, Sanjana

B: Rb8 – 3
👍👍👍👍 33%
Evan, @RichardPeng, Raymond

A: h5
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

⚪️#608 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Ward,C
🔸Gligoric,S
🔸Malta, 2000

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 608
public poll

C: f4 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 90%
@mahyarebrahimi1983, شیدا, @ALI_MRF2017, Evan, @RichardPeng, مجید, Zhenrui, Sanjana, Raymond

A: Rae1 – 1
👍 10%
@Sophia_Peng

B: c4
▫️ 0%

👥 10 people voted so far.

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