🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 game 1
⚪️Liren Ding (2777)
⚫️ Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (2693)
🔺½-½

🔺The Indian grandmaster missed a beautiful winning combination by playing the weak Rdb8. He could have won by playing:
1...Qg4+ 2.Kh1 Be5!! 3.Re1 (N.e5? Qh4+ 4.Kg1 Q.g5+ 6.Kh1 Q.c1) Kg7!
4.Bg2 Rh8+ 5.Kg1 Rh2!! 6.N.h2 B.h2+ 7.K.h2 Rh8+ 8.Kg1 Nf4 0-1🔺

🔹#11
A position Karpov has been (with
his last few moves) aiming for: White
(due to Black's b-file pressure) cannot
transfer his knight to as. Black has to
finish his development and .... then it looks like (more-or-less) a regular balanced hedgehog doesn't it? Here, however (due to the knight being developed to d2) White has a plan usually
never applicable or available in a (normal hedgehog'. White's rook on e1 will, by means of a 'rook lift>, come to target the black queenside! 1.Re3!± Yes! With his knight developed to d2, the 3rd rank is an <open highway' for White's ei-rook to access the
queensidd Black is in deep trouble! This strategy is worth remembering, as you may easily find yourself
in a situation in which you can use it! 🔹

🔹#12
How to regroup for White? 1.Ne1! White's bishop aims for g4 striking along the h3-C8 diagonal (and at Black's knight on d7), while his
knight heads to d3 increasing pressure on Black's c5 pawn. Black now needs to be smart, keeping a central
. . . d4-break possibility (to maintain the dynamic balance). 🔹

🔴 #6

S.Karjakin - P.Eljanov (2010)

1.Ng5!! Rxf4 2.Rb8!+- 1-0

⚫️#13 (Strategy - Black To Move)

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 13
anonymous poll

C: Ng8 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 53%

B: f5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍 42%

A: a6 – 1
👍 5%

👥 19 people voted so far.

⚪️ #14 (Strategy - White To Move)

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 14
anonymous poll

A: Rfc1 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%

B: Bd2 – 7
👍👍👍👍👍 35%

C: Rd1 – 3
👍👍 15%

👥 20 people voted so far.

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Game 2
⚪️Vladimir Kramnik
⚫️Vassily Ivanchuk
🔺0-1

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Game 2
⚪️Vladimir Fedoseev
⚫️Hikaru Nakamura
🔺1-0

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Game 2
⚪️Maxim Matlakov
⚫️Levon Aronian
🔺1-0

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 3 Game 2
⚪️Peter Svidler
⚫️Alexander Onischuk
🔺1-0