Robert Ris' Fast and Furious: Rodshtein's impressive attack

by Robert Ris
9/19/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris analyses one of the many fascinating games played at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest. This time around, he has a look at a ramarkable attacking victory obtained by Israel's Maxim Rodshtein out of a Semi-Tarrasch. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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As so many amazing games are played at the Olympiad, it was not easy to pick one. But the game Maxim Rodshtein v. Vignir Vatnar Stefansson is my favourite attacking game played so far in Budapest.

In the Semi-Tarrasch, White quickly launched his h-pawn, made a rook lift and threw basically all his pieces in the direction of the black king. In order to avoid mate, Black had to give up his queen for a rook and a knight, but even in the conversion stage, Black didn't get any time to breathe, as the Israeli GM never stopped playing for the attack. Impressive stuff!

Question: Can you see the killer move for White?

Rodshtein, Maxim v. Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar - Chess Olympiad 2024
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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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