White must have seen *Insert a lot of moves* ahead, to check blacks king all way to h3 before brilliantly finishing him off with the Bishops....

He had to have seen this since the Knight sac on move 18?????

This is both GOTD and a good POTD material!

I never seen so much courage put on the altar of a long-sighted plan. Vlassov must have had total conviction.

I agree with <Finan>, Vlassov has got to have seen it all the way when he sacced that N on the 15th.

As I viewed the game for the first time, I was intrigued about the winning line after 19...Nxf4.

This is what Stockfish had to say on the matter (moves in <> denote the main line),

<19...Nxf4>

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<20. Ne5+>

(20. Nb4+ Ke7 21. Qg5+ f6 22. Qxf4 +0.40 at a depth of 26)

<20...Kd8>

(20...Ke7 21. Qb4+ Kf6 22. Qxf4+ )

<21. Qb6+ Qc7>

(21...Ke7 22. Qb4+ Kd8 23. Qxf4 )

<22. Nxf7+ Kd7 23. Bb5+ Kc8 24. Ba6+ Kd7 25. Rd1+ Nd5 26. Bb5+ Ke7 27. Qxc7+ Nxc7 28. Rd7+ Kf6 29. g5+ Kg6 30. Bd3+ Kh5 31. Rxc7> +4.72 at a depth of 26

LTJ

I particularly liked 20 Ne5. In order to attack, white does the very thing that you are not supposed to do in an attack - allow the queens to be swapped off. But in return he plays a reloader on b5 to flush the black king out.