⚪️#315 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Smyslov,Vassily
🔸Matanovic,Aleksandar
🔸EU-chT (Men) Hamburgo 1965

📘 24.a6!
A nice temporary pawn sac to ensure that White will be able to use the weakened c5 square for his pieces, rather than having to advance a pawn there. 24...Bxa6 25.Ba5 Rd7 26.cxb5 Nb3+/-

⚫️#316 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Taimanov,Mark
🔸Karpov,Anatoly
🔸Moscow 1973

📘 17...Rc4!
A great decision. Karpov with a pawn sacrifice tries to exploit the weakness of light squares in the black camp. 18.Qxa7 Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8 and White is completely tied up.

⚪️#317 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Golubev,Mihail (2532)
🔸Jirovsky,Petr (2351)
🔸Wichern op 5th Hamburgo 1999

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 317

B: Ne2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%

C: Na2 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 40%

A: Qg3 – 2
👍👍👍👍 20%

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⚫️#318 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Paehtz,Elisabeth (2306)
🔸Aseev,Konstantin N (2517)
🔸Cappelle la Grande 2000

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 318

B: e5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 60%

A: N×d3 – 2
👍👍 20%

C: Rfc8 – 2
👍👍 20%

👥 10 people voted so far.

Petrosian, Korchnoi & Vasiukov analysing the opening game of Tal-Botvinnik World Championship match, Moscow 1961.

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Reykjavík 1968; Mark Taimanov & Evgeny Vasiukov (who is 85 years old today) look on at the latter's game v. Friðrik Ólafsson. Vasiukov won this game; the Soviet grandmasters shared 1st-2nd places in this event, ahead of Ólafsson.

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A feel of the play and atmosphere in Moscow during the eighteenth game of the world title rematch between Tal and Botvinnik, May 5, 1961.

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Miguel Najdorf v. Robert Hübner, 7th round, Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1971 - a key game in the development of what would become known as the Hübner Variation in the Nimzo-Indian Defence.

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Rare April 1948 footage of Paul Keres, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Samuel Reshevsky and Vasily Smyslov during the Moscow part of the 1948 World Chess Championship.

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Smyslov v Reshevsky, World Championship, Moscow, Round 11, April 11, 1948.

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