Robert Ris’ Fast and Furious: A spectacular attack in Prague

by Robert Ris
6/24/2023 – After a two-week holiday, the Fast & Furious show is back with a spectacular game from the Prague Challengers event. The encounter features a sharp English opening and the two top seeds of the event, Benjamin Gledura and Erwin l’Ami. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

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After a two-week holiday, the Fast & Furious show is back with a spectacular game from the Prague Challengers event. The encounter features a sharp English opening and the two top seeds of the event, Benjamin Gledura and Erwin l’Ami.

White quickly launched a flank attack — a standard plan in the modern era and potentially very dangerous for Black to face. I illustrate the potential dangers by showing a few other model games.

Exercise: How would you continue the attack here as White?

Feel free to move the pieces on the live diagram!


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Robert is an International Master who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On the PlayChess server The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous DVDs and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He has started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.

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