📘 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.

🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 5
⚪️ Kamsky,Gata (2676)
⚫️ Goryachkina,Aleksandra (2478)
🔺1-0

📘 52...Rg6?? (Rg4= 53.R.h5 R.a4)
53.Kf7! Rg5 54.Rd4+ Kc7 55.e6! 1-0

🔸RUS-chT Rapid Men 2017 Sochi
🔸Round 9
⚪️ Artemiev,Vladislav (2696)
⚫️ Morozevich,Alexander (2665)
🔺1-0

📘 20.R.h6!
Black resigned. There are 2 threats of Rh7 and Rg6-Rf1 that are not defendable. Now if:
20...K.h6 21.Rh1 Kg7 22.Rh7+ --->R.e7 +-

GM Elshan Moradiabadi
game analysis of the
World Cup September 2017

🔸TCh-RUS Rapid 2017

⚪️Motylev,Alexander (2675)
⚫️Kezin,Roman (2455)
🔸1-0

🔸TCh-RUS Rapid 2017

⚪️Savchenko,Boris (2585)
⚫️Moiseenko,Vadim (2543)
🔸Round 2
🔸1-0

🔸GM Elshan Moradiabadi game analysis of the Isle of Man International 2017

🔸Anand,Viswanathan (2794)
🔸 Hou,Yifan (2670)