When the dust has cleared

by Oliver Reeh
7/19/2019 – The diagram saw a board hoovering sequence: 22...Bxa3 23.Qxg6 hxg6 24.Bxa6 Bxb2 25.Bxb2 bxa6 26.Rxa6. Your first task is to imagine this final position. The second — to then see Black's win!
Analyses by Caruana, Nepomniachtchi, Anand, Kashlinskaya, Wojtaszek, Navara, Meier, Keymer etc. from recent top-class tournaments. Videos by King, Trent, Pelletier and Marin. 12 opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more!

Well calculated liquidation

Within just four moves queens, one pair of bishops and all queenside pawns will have disappeared — but not White's back rank weakness!

 
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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 e6 6.a3 Be7 7.e4 0-0 8.Nf3 Qa5 9.Bd2 Qh5 10.Be2 d5 11.cxd5 exd5 12.exd5 Nxd5 13.0-0 Rd8 14.Nd4 Qe5 15.Nf3 Qf5 16.Qa4 Be6 17.Nxd5 Rxd5 18.Bc3 Qg6 19.Rfd1 a6 20.Rxd5 Bxd5 21.Qf4 Re8 22.Qg3 The diagram saw a board hoovering sequence: 22...Bxa3 23.Qxg6 hxg6 24.Bxa6 Bxb2 25.Bxb2 bxa6 26.Rxa6. Your first task is to imagine this final position. The second - to see Black's win then!
Here we go: Please try to imagine the position following 22...Bxa3! 23.Qxg6 hxg6 24.Bxa6 Bxb2 25.Bxb2 bxa6 26.Rxa6. When you are done (and even know where to go with Black's rook then!), please play 22....Bxa3!
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Wild,A2253Gschnitzer,A23800–12019A334th GRENKE Open 20198.83

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.

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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  • "If you are thrown out of your preparation, you should react aggressively!"
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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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