Test your IQP-IQ

by Oliver Reeh
2/26/2022 – The diagram shows a seemingly normal position with an isolated pawn on d4. However, White has played the loosening move b2-b4, and this allows Black to get the advantage. What can Black do?
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.
 
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1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 a6 5.c3 cxd4 6.cxd4 dxe4 7.Nxe4 Nf6 8.Bd3 Bb4+ 9.Nc3 0-0 10.0-0 Nc6 11.a3 Be7 12.Bf4 b5 13.Rc1 Bb7 14.Bb1 Rc8 15.Qd3 g6 16.Bh6 Re8 17.Rfd1 Qd6 18.b4 Red8 19.Bg5 Test your IQP-IQ The diagram shows a seemingly normal position with an isolated pawn on d4. However, White has played the loosening move b2-b4, and this allows Black to get the advantage. What can Black do?
How can Black get the advantage?
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Omer,R2492Joshua,R24380–12018D27Collegiate Super Final4.2

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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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