⚪️#266 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tkachiev,Vladislav (2672)
🔸Conquest,Stuart (2563)
🔸EU-ch 2nd Ohrid 2001

📕 13.Bc6!
The best way to give up the pawn both in terms of exacting further tempi from black as he rounds it up, and of liquidating the b7 bishop just before it acquires a new lease of life. 13...Bxc6 14.dxc6 Qc8 15.b4! Qxc6 16.b5+/-.

⚪️#267 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hodgson,Julian M (2581)
🔸Wells,Peter K (2510)
🔸ch-GBR Scarborough 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 267

C: Bb5. – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%

B: Nc4 – 2
👍👍 18%

A: b3 – 1
👍 9%

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚫️#268 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Ni Hua (2568)
🔸Palliser,Richard (2337)
🔸Wch U20 Athens 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 268

A: Ra4 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%

B: Bd6 – 2
👍 14%

C: e×f4 – 2
👍 14%

👥 14 people voted so far.

Jacqueline Piatigorsky (1911-2012) represented the USA in the 1st Women's Chess Olympiad in Emmen in 1957. She was a Rothschild and sculptress specializing in birds. She was a top woman tennis player. She was the widow of famed cellist and chess patron Gregor Piatigorsky.

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Samuel Reshevsky, Jacqueline Piatigorsky, unknown, Jose Ferrer, Lina Grumette, and Bobby Fischer at the Outset of the 1961 Fischer—Reshevsky Match.

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📘 15.Qf3!
A strong move to prevent black from castling.
(15...0-0 16.b4 +-)
15..Qc6 16.Bd2 b6 17.e6!
Another powerful move by 15-year-old Iranian Grandmaster and 2016 Iran champion.
17...Kd8
(17...f×e6 18.R×e6! +-)
18.e×f7 +-