The right rook

by Oliver Reeh
8/30/2019 – In the diagram position Black should have played 16...♜fd8! — can you spot how after 16...♜ad8? White wins by force?

Analyses by Caruana, Giri, So, Vidit, Wojtaszek, Gelfand, McShane, Yu Yangyi, Nielsen, the Muzychuk sisters and many more. Plus videos by King, Sokolov and Williams. 11 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire plus lots of training sessions!

Two rooks for one square

Two questions can be helpful to determine the right rook:

A) Where will the other rook go? And

B) how can you use the square the rook comes from?

 
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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 b6 3.g3 Bb7 4.Bg2 e6 5.Bb2 c5 6.c4 Be7 7.0-0 0-0 8.e3 d5 9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.d4 cxd4 11.Nxd4 Nc6 12.e4 Ndb4 13.Nxc6 Nxc6 14.Nd2 Bc5 15.e5 Qe7 16.Ne4 In the diagram position Black should have played 16...Rfd8! - can you spot how after 16...Rad8? White wins by force? Rad8? 16...Rfd8!
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Analyses by Caruana, Giri, So, Vidit, Wojtaszek, Gelfand, McShane, Yu Yangyi, Nielsen, the Muzychuk sisters and many more. Plus videos by King, Sokolov and Williams. 11 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire plus lots of training sessions!


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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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