One false move!

by Oliver Reeh
2/12/2022 – While you are looking at this rich diagram position - would you be so kind to show why 22...Kxc8?? loses the game for Black?
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 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.Nb3 Nf6 7.g4 d6 8.g5 Nd7 9.f4 h6 10.gxh6 Bxh6 11.Be3 Nde5 12.Be2 Bh3 13.Rg1 e6 14.Nb5 Qh4+ 15.Rg3 Bxf4 16.Bxf4 Qxf4 17.Qxd6 Rc8 18.Qc5 Bg4 19.Nd6+ Kd7 20.Rxg4 Nxg4 21.Rd1 Rxh2 22.Nxc8+ One false move! While you are looking this rich diagram position - would you be so kind to show why 22...Kxc8?? loses the game for Black? Kxc8?? The "natural capture" - but it loses! The cool 22...Ke8! 23.Nd6+ Kf8! (right into the discovered check, the kind of move one likes to play ... in the analysis) would have won vor Black, e.g. 24.Nc4+ 24.Nf5+ Kg8 24...Kg7 25.Qg1 Nf2-+ 22...Kc7 23.Qd6+ Qxd6 24.Nxd6+-
Please play 23.Qf8+! only once you've worked out White's win after 23...Kc7.
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Rodriguez Vila,A2485Leon Hoyos,M22811–02003B34American Continental 2nd2

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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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