A-file alert!

by Oliver Reeh
6/17/2023 – Although White is a whole piece up in the diagram position, he is dead lost - he simply has castled to the wrong side. How would you hunt down White's king on c1?
88 times, IM Oliver Reeh leads you step by step through the most brillant game conclusions of the world champions - in interactive Fritztrainer format, enabling you to enter the winning moves yourself.
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1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Be3 d5 5.Nf3 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Nh6 7.d5 Nb4 8.Qd2 a5 9.a3 Qxd5 10.axb4 Qxe4 11.Bd3 Qe6 12.0-0-0? 12.0-0! 12...0-0! 12...axb4?? 13.Bb5+ Kf8 14.Qd8# 13.Bxh6 axb4 14.Qe3 A-file alert! Although White is a whole piece up in the diagram position, he is dead lost - he simply has castled to the wrong side. How would you hunt down White's king on c1?
How would you tackle White's long castled king?
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Nestorovic,N2422Popchev,M24100–12008B06Stara Pazova4

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Oliver Reeh has been working for ChessBase for many years as a translator and presenter of the internet show TV ChessBase, and he also looks after the tactics column in ChessBase Magazine, for which he has also been responsible as editor-in-chief since 2019. The International Master has contributed to the CB "MasterClass" series and is the author of the DVDs "Strike like the World Champions" and "Master Class Tactics - Train your combination skills!" Volumes 1 & 2. Oliver Reeh lives in Hamburg.

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