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The road of Levon Aronian's Success in FIDE World Cup championship Tbilisi, Georgia 2017
📗 Levon Aronian has the experience of attending four times in the Fide World Cup tournaments. The result was two championships and two times getting eliminated. In the following graph you can see these results.
Russian Super GM Dmitry Jakavenko eliminated him in World Cup 2007
Russian Super GM Evgeny Tomashevsky eliminated him in World Cup 2013
Ukrainian GM, Alexander Areshchenko eliminated him in 2015.
The interesting point is that Aronian won against Areshchenko in 2005 and Areshchenko did revenge 10 years later!
🔹🔺 The interesting and tactical moments
of the Isle of Man International 2017 (Douglas ENG) Round 3 🔹🔺
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Magnus Carlsen 2827
⚫️Jeffery Xiong 2663
🔺1-0
📘 14.Re1
With the idea of Nf3 and over-protection of the important central and advanced pawn.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Magnus Carlsen 2827
⚫️Jeffery Xiong 2663
🔺1-0
📘 16.h4!
One of the important ideas in this form is gaining space on the kingside. After castling of black, the idea of Qd2 and g4-g5 is possible too.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Magnus Carlsen 2827
⚫️Jeffery Xiong 2663
🔺1-0
📘 31...Kg8?? (Qd8= 32.Q.h6+ Ke7=)
32.Q.h6 +- Qb4 33.Kh1(idea Rg1) 1-0
Magnus Carlsen plays the Torre Attack against Jeffrey Xiong (USA)
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Hikaru Nakamura 2781
⚫️Alexei Shirov 2630
🔺½-½
📘 7.b4?!
The usual moves are Nbd2 and c3 here. the text move has been played 3 times in total, Among the lower rated players.
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Hikaru Nakamura 2781
⚫️Alexei Shirov 2630
🔺½-½
📘 11...f6!
A standard move to release black pieces by attacking on the white's advanced pawn which has gained huge space.
🔹🔺 The interesting and tactical moments
of the Isle of Man International 2017 (Douglas ENG) Round 4 🔹🔺
🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Rustam Kasimdzhanov 2676
⚫️Magnus Carlsen 2827
🔺½-½
📘 The philidor position!
The easiest way to guarantee a draw in the rook endings.
White keeps the rook in the 3rd rank, until black push the pawn to d3. Then the rook goes to h8 and start harassing the black king. The game is draw.