52. h8=Q??
Missing a beautiful winning idea.
52. Rh6!!
However, the move is very difficult to find, especially in a rapid game.
52...Qxf2+ 53. Kh3 Qf1+ 54. Kh4 Qh1+ 55. Kg5 Qe1 56. h8=Q Qxe3+ 57. Kh4
52... Qxf2+ 53. Kh3 Qf5+ 54. Kg2 Qf3+ 55. Kg1 Qxe3+ 56. Kf1 Qf3+ 57. Ke1 Qxg3+ 58. Kd2 Qd3+ 59. Kc1 Qc4+ 60. Kb2 Qb4+ =

⚪️#505 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Rubinstein,A
🔸Mieses,J
🔸St. Petersburg, 1909

White has a lead in development and makes use of it to mount an energetic operation in the center.
19.Rd5!
Rubinstein presents Black with a difficult choice between playing down his main line and 19...Rc4. Neither equalizes.
19...Rxd5 20.exd5 Nd4+?
20...Ne7 was better.
21.Kd3 Ke7 22.f4!
White isolates and seriously weakens Black's e-pawn. White's king will be able to attack it, while at the same time giving extra support to his potentially dangerous passed d-pawn from the excellent blockading square e4.
22...f6 23.fxe5 fxe5 24.Ke4
An even better move would be 24.Ne4+/-
24...Kd6 25.Rf1+/-

⚫️#506 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Schlechter,C
🔸Rubinstein,A
🔸San Sebastian, 1912

25...e5!
This stunningly simple move opens the game for Black's rooks and king to swarm all over key space in the kingside and center. White's rooks lack space and White's king is too far from the center and kingside to do much about it.
26.dxe5
Could it be that Schlechter had now intended to play 26.Rg5, but then saw Igor Zaitsev's (presumably also Rubinstein's) wonderful refutation? Zaitsev gives 26...Rf6! 27.Rxf6 Kxf6. Black also wins the king and pawn endgame, due to his powerful king and 3-2 kingside pawn majority, after 28.Rxe5 Rxe5 29.dxe5+ Kxe5, and if 30.Kc2 Ke4 31.c4 g5 32.Kc3 f5 33.b4 h4 34.a4 g4 35.a5 f4 -+.
26...Rxe5 27.Re3?! Rxe3 28.fxe3 Re6-/+.

⚪️#507 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Rubinstein,A
🔸Tarrasch,S
🔸Carlsbad, 1923

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 507
public poll

A: Rc8 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 55%
Ramesh, @SteveWongso, Vincent, Bryson, @Hamidhamidian, @Sophia_Peng

B: Qc6 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍 36%
@Afshin3333, @ALACIQ, @Fibonaccimathematician, Srikar

C: R×d8 – 1
👍 9%
@AryanLeekha

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚫️#508 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Spielmann,R
🔸Rubinstein,A
🔸Baden-Baden, 1925

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 508
public poll

A: a5 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 44%
Ramesh, Bryson, Srikar, @AryanLeekha

B: c6 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍 33%
@SteveWongso, @Sophia_Peng, @Ostad112

C: h5 – 2
👍👍👍👍 22%
Vincent, @RichardPeng

👥 9 people voted so far.

🔹 Johannes Zukertort
🔹 German-Polish chess master

▪️ Born: September 7, 1842, Lublin, Poland
▪️ Died: June 20, 1888, London, United Kingdom

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💠 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018

♦️ Starting in 30 minutes
♦️ Read about tournament and games schedule👇👇

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💠 Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018
June 20-24, 2018


🔘 The Paris Grand Chess Tour is the 2nd of 5 stages of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour, in which 9 of the world's best players and wild cards will play for a total prize fund of $1.2 million.

🔘 The Paris event takes place in the studios of the CANAL+ TV channel in Boulogne-Billancourt and features Caruana, Nakamura, So, MVL, Anand, Aronian, Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Karjakin and wild card Kramnik.

🔘 The rapid event is a 10-player single round-robin and features 3 rounds each day on the first 3 days, with a time control of 25 minutes for all moves and a 10-second delay from move 1. The final 2 days are a blitz double round-robin, with 18 rounds of 5 minutes + 3-second delay blitz. Rapid games count double, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

🔹 ROUNDS SCHEDULE:

⌛️ Round 1 Jun 20, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round 2 Jun 20, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round 3 Jun 20, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round 4 Jun 21, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round 5 Jun 21, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round 6 Jun 21, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round 7 Jun 22, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round 8 Jun 22, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round 9 Jun 22, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round B1 Jun 23, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round B2 Jun 23, 2018 12:30
⌛️ Round B3 Jun 23, 2018 13:00
⌛️ Round B4 Jun 23, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round B5 Jun 23, 2018 14:00
⌛️ Round B6 Jun 23, 2018 14:30
⌛️ Round B7 Jun 23, 2018 15:00
⌛️ Round B8 Jun 23, 2018 15:30
⌛️ Round B9 Jun 23, 2018 16:00
⌛️ Round B10 Jun 24, 2018 10:00
⌛️ Round B11 Jun 24, 2018 10:30
⌛️ Round B12 Jun 24, 2018 11:00
⌛️ Round B13 Jun 24, 2018 11:30
⌛️ Round B14 Jun 24, 2018 12:00
⌛️ Round B15 Jun 24, 2018 12:30
⌛️ Round B16 Jun 24, 2018 13:00
⌛️ Round B17 Jun 24, 2018 13:30
⌛️ Round B18 Jun 24, 2018 14:00

✅ Today rapid games will starting after 30 minutes and live broadcasting in two sites are below:👇👇


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🛄 #Mamedyarov_chess_quotes_001

🔸 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster

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🛄 #about_Mamedyarov

🔸 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster

🔰 Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mamedyarov is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He is the No. 1 ranked Azerbaijani player and No. 3 ranked player in the world as of May 2018. Mamedyarov has competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011, in 2014 and in 2018.

🔘 Full name: Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov
🔘 Country: Azerbaijan
🔘 Born: 12 April 1985 (age 33)
🔘 Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (2002)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2808 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2814 (February 2018)
🔘 Ranking: No. 3 (May 2018)
🔘 Peak ranking: No. 2 (February 2018)

🔰 Mamedyarov has competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011 (eliminated in quarterfinals), in 2014 (becoming fourth) and in 2018 (becoming second). He is a two-time World Junior Champion and was World Rapid Champion in 2013.

🔰 A gold medalist at the 2012 Chess Olympiad on the third board, he is a three-time European Team Champion (2009, 2013, 2017). He is also a two-time winner of Tal Memorial (2010 and 2014) and Shamkir Chess (2016 and 2017) tournaments.

🔰 In 2011, Mamedyarov was the tournament organisers' nominee, qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012, where he lost to Boris Gelfand in the first round.
In the 2014 cycle, he qualified for the Candidates tournament by coming second in the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13. He finished fourth in the Candidates, with a score of 7/14.
He failed to qualify for the 2016 Candidates. He came sixth in the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, and was knocked out in the quarter finals of the Chess World Cup 2015 by eventual winner Sergey Karjakin.
In the 2018 cycle, he qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2018 by winning the FIDE Grand Prix 2017. He finished as a runner-up in Candidates one point behind Caruana, with a score of 8/14.

♦️ A memorable game by Memedyarov against Kramnik names "When the Shak Bites" in chessgames.com site!👇
🔸 Vladimir Kramnik vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
🔸 Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2008), Nice FRA, rd 3, Mar-17
🔸 Budapest Defense: General (A52)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇

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🔸 Vladimir Kramnik - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , Nice 2008
🔸 PGN format

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🔸Rapid Your Next Move Leuven 2018
🔸Round 2
⚪️Karjakin,Sergey (2782)
⚫️Grischuk,Alexander (2766)
🔸1-0