Bogoljubow's tricky minority attack

by Oliver Reeh
2/5/2022 – In the diagram position Black's active rooks are hitting f2, his queen g5 is eyeing the Rc1 - and yet White unperturbedly continued 30. b4-b5! Can you spot the idea behind this advance?
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1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 0-0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Rc1 a6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Bd3 c6 10.0-0 Re8 11.Qc2 Nf8 12.Na4 Nh5 13.Bxe7 Rxe7 14.b4 g6 15.Nc5 Ng7 16.a4 Bf5 17.Qb3 Nfe6 18.Be2 Qb6 19.Nd2 Nxd4 20.exd4 Rxe2 21.Nf3 Rae8 22.Ne5 f6 23.Qf3 Rb2 24.Ncd7 Qd8 25.Ng4 Bxg4 26.Nxf6+ Kh8 27.Nxg4 Qe7 28.Ne5 Rf8 29.Qh3 Qg5 Bogoljubow's tricky minority attack In the diagram position Black's active rooks are hitting f2, his queen g5 is eyeing the Rc1 - and yet White unperturbedly continued 30. b4-b5! Can you spot the idea behind this advance? 30.b5! A very late minority attack, executed despite (or rather due to) Black's active rook b2! axb5?? 30...Rbxf2?? loses as well.
Rook strike on f2 - how does White win?
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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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