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by Oliver Reeh
2/4/2023 – Yes, 24.Rxg7+! wins for White - but it's definitely a challenge to foresee the complete path to victory from the diagram position, even if it's initially paved with checks. Your perfect start to the (chess) weekend, right?
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 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nge2 Nf6 5.e5 Nfd7 6.f4 b6 7.a3 Be7 8.g3 c5 9.Bg2 Nc6 10.Be3 Ba6 11.f5 Bg5 12.Qd2 Bxe3 13.Qxe3 Rc8 14.0-0-0 Bxe2 15.Nxe2 Qc7 16.c3 cxd4 17.Nxd4 Nxd4 18.Rxd4 0-0 19.Re1 exf5 20.Bxd5 Nc5 21.Kb1 Rfe8 22.g4 fxg4 23.Rxg4 Qd7 Starting to finish Yes, 24.Rxg7+! wins for White - but it's definitely a challenge to foresee the complete path to victory from the diagram position, even if it's initially paved with checks. Your perfect start to the (chess) weekend, right?
Yes, 24.Rxg7+! wins! Before playing it, please try to work out the whole winning line - the first move without check will be the 28th!
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Willow,J2395Fodor,T25251–02022C154NCL 2022-232.1

 

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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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