The king's discipline

by Oliver Reeh
3/8/2019 – The good news for Black in the diagram position is that 20...Nxf3+ 21.Bxf3 Qxf3! leads to victory. The downer is White has many checks which must be answered with the right king moves to bring the game home. Will you manage?
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Nerves of steel

Moving around with the king on a full board, with many enemy pieces to give check, is easy enough on the computer screen, yet a nightmare in any practical game - but who am I telling this?

 
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1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Be2 Bb7 9.0-0 a6 10.e4 b4 11.e5 bxc3 12.exf6 cxb2 13.fxg7 Bxg7 14.Bxb2 c5 15.Qd2 Rg8 16.Rab1 Bd5 17.dxc5 Bxb2 18.Rxb2 Qf6 19.c6 Ne5 20.c7 The good news for Black in the diagram position is that 20...Nxf3+ 21.Bxf3 Qxf3! leads to victory. The downer - White has many checks which must be answered with the right king moves to bring the game home. Will you manage? Nxf3+ In the game Black preferred the bird in the hand playing 20...Rxg2+ 21.Kxg2 Bxf3+ 22.Bxf3 Qxf3+ 23.Kg1 Qg4+ 24.Kh1 Qf3+ with perpetual check. 21.Bxf3 Qxf3 Here might be the moment to pause for a while and ponder on the position. White's pinned pawn g2 cannot capture the queen f3. But this means that Black's rook g8 must not leave the g-file, so White can start several attemps to deflect it. And White has three attackers to give checks - rook b1, pawn c7 and the queen. Ready to enter the jungle? 22.Rb8+
Where must Black's king go?
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Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine

Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by tactic expert Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine, where you will also find openings articles and surveys, endgames, and of course annotations by the world's top grandmasters.
 

Highlights of this issue

  • CBM 184Tata Steel — Analysis by Giri, Anand, Vidit, Svidler, Nielsen, Adhiban, Hübner and more
  • "One of the best games from 2018" — Go king hunting with Simon Williams — Move by Move!
  • Black has all the fun — Rainer Knaak presents the forcing piece sacrifice 5…Bc5 in the Ponziani Opening
  • Counter the King's Gambit immediately — Daniel King’s video instruction shows you what to do with Black after 2...exf4 3.Nf3 d5!?
  • Aggressive against the Dutch — Romain Edouard recommends the immediate provocation 2.Bg5!
    ...and much more!

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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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