Nimzovich was right

by Oliver Reeh
12/20/2019 – White was well in control until of the game in the diagram position he decided to attack the rook c8 with 22.Bh3? Why did this backfire?
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Original Nimzovich

"A passed pawn is a criminal which should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient." Actually, I enjoyed books like "My System" not least due to verbalizations like these!

 
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nb6 7.Ne2 c5 8.d5 e6 9.0-0 0-0 10.Nbc3 exd5 11.exd5 Bf5 12.Ne4 Bxe4 13.Bxe4 N8d7 14.Bg2 c4 15.Rb1 Rc8 16.Be3 Re8 17.Nc3 Ne5 18.Bd4 a6 19.b3 Nbd7 20.Ne4 Nf6 21.Nxf6+ Bxf6 White was well in control until of the game in the diagram position he decided to attack the rook c8 with 22.Bh3? Why did this backfire? 22.Bh3? An unfortunate diagonal shift. By the way, the interesting opening line 7.Ne2!? in the Fianchetto-Grünfeld will be featured in an article by Evgeny Postny in CBM 194!
The Rc8 is threatened. How should Black react?
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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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