A short Nordic drama

by Oliver Reeh
9/6/2019 – With 36...Qd2 in the diagram Black's queen approaches the enemy king and attacks its "best friend", the knight on d3. Please evaluate the position, and then make the right choice for White!

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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...within the next two moves. The lucky winner will be White!

 
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1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.exd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Qd2 0-0 7.0-0-0 Re8 8.f3 c6 9.Bd3 b5 10.Re1 Nbd7 11.Nge2 Nb6 12.Ng3 b4 13.Nd1 Be6 14.Kb1 Nc4 15.Qc1 a5 16.Bf5 Qd7 17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.Nf2 a4 19.Nd3 b3 20.cxb3 axb3 21.axb3 Na5 22.Qc3 Reb8 23.b4 Nc4 24.Bxf6 Bxf6 25.Nc5 Qa7 26.Kc2 Qf7 27.Ra1 e5 28.Qd3 exd4 29.Nf5 Ne3+ 30.Nxe3 dxe3 31.Qxe3 Qg6+ 32.Nd3 Qxg2+ 33.Kb3 Rxa1 34.Rxa1 Qxh2 35.Qe6+ Kh8 36.Qxc6 With 36...Qd2 in the diagram Black's queen approaches the enemy king and attacks its "best friend", the knight on d3. Please evaluate the position - and then make the right choice for White! Qd2
Black has attacked the Nd3. How would you continue as White?
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Westerberg,J2545Hobber,A22822019C01Nordic Chess Championship 20192

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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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