🔴 #21

V.Topalov - R.Ponomariov

🔺 #21👇👇

1.Nxf6 Bxf6 2.d4!! Qxa2 [2...Bxd4 3.Bb1+- f5 4.Rxa5] 3.Rxa2+- 1-0

⚪️ #46 (Strategy - White To Move)

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 46

A: Ne2 – 53
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 78%

C: g4 – 13
👍👍 19%

B: Qe3 – 2
▫️ 3%

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⚪️ #45 (Strategy - White To Move)

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 45

C: Kg3 – 60
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%

A: Qf4 – 3
▫️ 5%

B: Ne1 – 3
▫️ 5%

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🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 1
⚪️ Alekseenko,Kirill (2583)
⚫️ Zakaryan,David (2343)
🔺1-0

📘 5.g4
An interesting move, but not popular. In this variation, White usually does not castle and instead start an early pawn storm with g4-g5-h4-h5.

Carlsen once had a successful result against Caruana in the blitz tournament in Norway, in 2017.

🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 1
⚪️ Alekseenko,Kirill (2583)
⚫️ Zakaryan,David (2343)
🔺1-0

📘 15.Kf1
Improving the position of the king by transferring it to g2 and making a connection between the major pieces in the back rank.

🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 3
⚪️ Jary,Sergey (2297)
⚫️ Savchenko,Boris (2585)
🔺1-0

📘 19.Nd1
Transferring the knight to the active d3 square and controlling the strong c5 and e5 squares.

🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 3
⚪️ Jary,Sergey (2297)
⚫️ Savchenko,Boris (2585)
🔺1-0

📘 53...Rh7?? (Qa6 or Qb7 =)
54.Ng6! Black is getting checkmated!
54...Kf7 55.Rc7+ K.g6 56.Q.e6+ Kh5 57.Q.f5# 1-0

🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 3
⚪️ Fedoseev,Vladimir (2733)
⚫️ Motylev,Alexander (2675)
🔺1-0

📘 4...Qxf3??
Motylev's strange blunder.
[34...Rb1+= 35.Rf1 Qd4+ 36.Kh1 Qd5+ 37.Kg1 Qd4+ 38.Kh1 Qd5+ 39.Kg1] 35.Bf4++- Ka8 36.Qc8+ = 1-0

🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 4
⚪️ Andreikin,Dmitry (2705)
⚫️ Khismatullin,Denis (2628)
🔺0-1

📘 26.Ng1
With the idea of sending the knight to the outpost f5 square.