Not quite unexpectedly II

by Oliver Reeh
7/24/2020 – With his forces fully mobilised, White shatters any faint hope that Black had to survive with his exposed king. Go for it!

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.

One tempo

If in the diagram position Black already had his queen’s rook on c8, he would actually be okay! 

 
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1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.Nf3 e6 6.cxd4 d6 7.Bc4 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Re1 Nc6 10.exd6 Qxd6 11.Nc3 Rd8 12.Bb3 b6 13.Ng5 Nf6 14.Qf3 Bd7 15.Nce4 Nxd4 16.Qh3 Qc7 17.Nxf6+ Bxf6 18.Qxh7+ Kf8 19.Bd2 a5 20.Rac1 Qb7 21.Qh5 Bc6 With his forces fully mobilised, White shatters any faint hope by Black to survive with his exposed king. Go for it!
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Pirrot,D2313Stojanovski,S22091–02020B22Schachfestival 2020-Open6.5

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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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