"Relationships between chess players are constantly evolving. The opponent that I played against in this game is named Mikol Zlotnikov. He is a very solid Russian International Master. And, he was actually the first International Master that I ever beat. I think that I was 11 or 12 years old and it happened at the New York Open, a long time ago. And, I beat him in a very interesting game that I was very proud of, and, that many people came to me and told me that it was an amazing thing that such a young boy beat an international Master. And he was, of course, very upset about the game.

But then about 2 weeks before I played this game, which you are about to see, I lost to him in a very difficult struggle in the Marshall chess Club. So when I set down to play against him in Washington DC, in a very large open tournament, I was remembering the game that I had lost only a few weeks before and I was ready to get some serious revenge. It's very important to be able to rise against an opponent who beat you the last game. If you start from a psycological disadvantage, then you are in trouble. But, if you are energized by the loss, if you are ready to rise to the challenge, you have a very good chance.

And, now we see that his position is finished. What is my threat?

First of all I want to utilize the idea of the pin to defender. I want to play Bxf2. His B can't take on f2 because of the pin on the K. The only move is Rxf2. And then I would simply play Qxg3+ followed by taking on f2, because my N defends the piece, and the story's over. My other threat is Nxg3. After fxg3, I'll play Qe2+. He loses a R. The K can't move anywhere to defend the R because my B controls the dark squares. And if the R moves to f2, I simply take it and win. Do you think he can defend these threats?