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by Oliver Reeh
11/2/2024 – From the diagram position, the passed pawn d5 will eventually become the hero, but first White has to do something about his attacked queen d2. Your ingenuity is required!

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Topics: ChessBase Magazine, tactic column, Tactics
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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60m English New ideas in the Najdorf_E

‘New ideas in the Najdorf – a Power Play 18 Update’ aims to complement Daniel King’s popular DVD from last year ‘The Sicilian Najdorf - a repertoire for Black’. Such a dynamic and popular opening as the Najdorf is developing the whole time. On this download, Daniel King updates lines that were included on his DVD but also responds to viewers’ requests, considering lines that he omitted from his original repertoire. The lines examined on this update are: • 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 h3 e5 7 Nde2 • 5….a6 6 Bc4 in combination with the English Attack (Be3, f3 etc) • 5…a6 6 Be3 and the …a5 variation • 5…a6 6 Be2 and 9 Re1 • 5 f3 (instead of 5 Nc3) It isn’t necessary to have seen the original Najdorf DVD to understand the lines examined here – but it would help as they form part of a complete repertoire.

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Frits Fritschy Frits Fritschy 50 minutes ago
Black could have put up nore of a fight with 29... g5 30.Rxb7 Rde8 31.Qf2 gxh4 32.Qxh4 Re5, with about a +1 evaluation. White has a pawn, black has an e-file (and opposite colored bishops).
PJOD PJOD 4 hours ago
Thanks tip4success. My point was they had posted the game from last week's puzzle in the article rather than the one relating to the puzzle diagram. This has now been corrected.
tip4success tip4success 4 hours ago
@PJOD Here's the FEN diagram you can import to your favorite software:
PJOD PJOD 7 hours ago
Wrong game posted in the article?
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