🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2791)
⚫️Svetushkin,Dmitry (2556)
🔸1-0

📘Two times world junior champion has sharp combinational vision!
21.N×e4 d×e4 22.N×b5! a×b5 23.Rd7 Qc4 24.R×b7 +-
Threatening 25.e6 f5 26.Bxf5

🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Markus,Robert (2644)
⚫️Bauer,Christian (2647)
🔸1-0

📘 16.Na2!
In stonewall, e5 is the Achilles' heel of black! White maneuvers the knight to d3 to play Nfe5 and f3, e4 afterwards.

🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Maze,Sebastien (2614)
⚫️Indjic,Aleksandar (2591)
🔸1-0

📘 11...Qb8!?
to defend d6 and play Bd8-b6.
Giri has also played this uncommon move in 2017.

🔸European Team Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Ftacnik,Lubomir (2546)
⚫️Pancevski,Filip (2489)
🔸0-1

📘 11...Kh8!?
A novelty. 11...h6 is the common move here. The idea of Kh8 is to play Rg8, and Qf8 to exchange the bad bishop. If white plays Qd2, black can consider h6, Nh5, and f5 to start an attack on the kingside.

🔸Iranian Championship semi-final 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Ramezani,Mahan (2056)
⚫️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2456)
🔸1-0

🔸Iranian Championship semi-final 2017
🔸Round 1
⚪️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2563)
⚫️Hamidi,Amir Mohammad (2185)
🔸1-0

⚫️#95 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Smyslov,Vassily
🔸Spassky,Boris
🔸Moscow 1973

📕 20...f5 may seem ok to you, but fails to the intermediate move h6:
21.h6! Qh8 22.ef5 gf5 23.Qe3! fg4 24.Qg5+ Kf7 25.Qe7+ and Qxc7+-
20...Bxg4?! unnecessarily gives up two bishops.
Considering the dynamic factors, 20...gxh5! is the correct move. After 21.Ne3 Bg4 or 21.Nxf6+ Kh8 black is ok.

⚪️#96 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tal,Mihail
🔸Botvinnik,Mikhail
🔸Moscow 1960

📕 18.h4! is an excellent multi-purpose move that increases white's advantage.
By playing h4, white pushes his passed pawn, defends Bg5, and prepares to play 19.Rh3 to activare the rook and to defend c3 to free the e2 knight.
18.Nf4? was weak in view of 18...Nxd4!

⚪️#97 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tal,Mihail
🔸Botvinnik,Mikhail
🔸Moscow 1960

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 97

A: Bc1 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 87%

C: Ba3 – 2
👍 13%

B: e5
▫️ 0%

👥 15 people voted so far.

⚪️#98 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2753)
🔸Polgar,Judit (2732)
🔸Sofia MTel Masters 2005

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 98

B: Ra2 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

C: f4 – 4
👍👍👍 29%

A: Nxf5
▫️ 0%

👥 14 people voted so far.