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by Oliver Reeh
9/5/2014 – Sometimes you just feel that you have a winning position, a winning move, a winning continuation. Chess intuition simply tells you that the win must be there, somewhere, even if it is well hidden and you cannot see it yet. But how to find the winning move, the winning continuation? Well, practice helps. And Oliver Reeh helps you to practice.

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Black's king is trapped on the edge of the board, and instead of settling for a draw (51.Qc8+ Kb5 52.Qd7+ Ka6 52.Qc8+ etc.) White could have moved in for the kill. How?

A) 51.Bc6
B) 51.Bd5
c) 51.b3

 

Solution

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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