The mysterious rook

by Oliver Reeh
12/6/2019 – From the diagram position, White has a remarkable way to bring to bear his g1-rook without even moving it! Can you think of what followed?

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When showing this game a couple of weeks ago on TV ChessBase, I asked my co-host André Schulz if he could make any sense of White's rook on g1 — and he predicted exactly the coming scenario. Kudos!

 

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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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