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Two weeks ago, we talked about the problems that can arise when a knight is on the edge of the board. Yet, a ‘knight on the rim’ does not necessarily have to be bad. In fact, there is a variation in the King’s Indian Defence in which a knight on a5 is even affectionately called the ‘Panno knight’, named after Argentine grandmaster Oscar Panno.
Said knight appears in the Fianchetto Variation after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 d6 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.d5 and Na5. Panno demonstrates that the knight does play an important role in the upcoming middlegame.
In the diagram, which comes from this variation, we see that Black plays on two wings. White has just captured a knight on g4 with Bf3xg4. Which nice intermediate move did he miss?
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