Short and sweet

by Oliver Reeh
8/22/2014 – Short games are often not particularly attractive. One side blunders or runs into an opening trap and the other side wins without much effort. However, some short games display many surprising ideas and tactics. The following game is an example. It was one of the shortest games from the Olympiad 2014 but contains a number of sweet tactical moments.

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Short and sweet

 

Short, but sweet
One of the shortest games of the Chess Olympiad 2014. Black's queen controls the diagonal to g1, so White must reckon with ...Ng3+, followed by the opening of the h-file. What would you play? 
A) 14.Bxg4
B) 14.Nh7 h5 15.Bxg4
C) 14.Nh7 h5 15.Nf6+ Ke7 16.Bxg4

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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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