⚪️#75 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2820)
🔸Adams,Michael (2712)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

25.d6!? [White has a better way to exploit Black's somewhat awkward piece coordination.]

[25.Nb5! Qf6 26.Qxf6 Nxf6 27.Nxa7 Kf8 28.Nb5 Re5 29.Nc3 Ke7 30.Kh2 Kd6 31.Rd4 Re1 (31...Nxd5? 32.f4 Rf5 33.g4 Rxf4 34.Rd2+–) 32.Rc4±; 25.Nc6 Re1+ 26.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 27.Kg2 Qe8 28.Nxa7 Nc5 29.Qf3 Ne6 30.Nc6 Ng5 31.Qf5 Bxc6 32.dxc6 Qxc6+ 33.Bd5 Qe8 34.h4 Nh7=]

25...Nf6 26.Kh2 Qb2 27.Nc2 Qc3 28.Nd4 Qb2 29.d7 Rd8 30.Nf5 Be4 [30...Rxd7 31.Rxd7 Nxd7 32.Nxh6+ Kh7 33.Nxf7+–]

31.Nd6 Bg6 32.Nc4 Qe2 33.Ne5 Kh7 34.g4 b5 35.Qe3 Qb2 36.Kg1 b4 37.Nxg6 1–0

⚪️#75 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Gomez,John Paul (2464)
🔸Ladva,Ottomar (2500)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

49.Nh5!? [49.Qa8+! Kh7 50.Qe4+ Kh8 51.Ngf5 Qd8 52.Nd5 Ra5 53.Nd6 Qf8 (53...Qxd6 54.Qe8+ Kh7 55.Ne7+–) 54.Ne7 Ra1 55.Nef5 Rc1 56.Qe3 Rc6 57.Qe5 Rc7 58.Ne8 Rc8 59.Nexg7 Qc5 60.Qf4; 49.Qe4 Ra5 50.h4 Re5 51.Qa8+ Kh7 52.Nh5²]

49...Rb3 50.Qe4 Qb7 51.Nd5 Rb5 52.Qe8+ Kh7 53.Qe4+ Kh8 54.Qe8+ [54.Nhf4 Qd7=]

54...Kh7 55.Qe4+ Kh8 56.Qe8+ ½–½

⚪️#76 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tomczak,Jacek (2614)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2779)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 76
public poll

A)Qa2 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 90%
@M_R_alizadeh2000, @ehsanmec, Seyed Hossein Ali, Nikhil, @h_a_d_I_1169, @Sophia_Peng, @RichardPeng, مجید, Sanjana

C)Rg6 – 1
👍 10%
Alok

B)Bd4
▫️ 0%

👥 10 people voted so far.

⚪️#76 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Volodin,Aleksandr (2457)
🔸Garcia,Jan Emmanuel (2439)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 76
public poll

A)d6 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 53%
@M_R_alizadeh2000, @flowchess, Seyed Hossein Ali, @h_a_d_I_1169, Alok, مجید, @Gm_Mr, @WataxPin, Sanjana

C)Kd3 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍 35%
Ss, @Mahernoz, @abas2048, @Kasra_Germany, @Sophia_Peng, Atharva

B)Bh3 – 2
👍👍 12%
Nikhil, @RichardPeng

👥 17 people voted so far.

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