YouRang: It was a nice little manuever by Gashimov (white) with the moves from <14.Bf4> thru <20...fxe6> [diagram]
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The material is basically even, but white enjoys more activity. In this position, white's knight looks stronger than black's bishop, which has relatively few useful squares to work with. Black's king is also more exposed, and black is now burdened with an isolated pawn on the e-file, which for the next few moves will be the target of white's attack, and black won't be able to save it. Later on, black, who was already worse off, blundered in a difficult situation the 34th move [diagram]
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Black played <34...h4?>, missing the knight's forking tactics: <35.Nf4!> attacking the Rd5 and threatening Ne6+, forking K+R. Black played <35...h3+ 36.Kf1 Rd6> to prevent Ne5+, but losing a defender of Pc5 [diagram]
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Here, white found <37.b4!> and black can't take the pawn because of: 37...cxb4? 38.Rxd4! Rxd4 39.Ne6+ again forking K+R and going up by a piece. So, black guarded c5 with the other rook: <37...Rf5 38.bxc5 Bxc5> [diagram]
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But now white plays <39.Ne6+!> anyway, winning the exchange: <39...Rxe6 40.Rxe6>. Black hoped to sac his bishop for a promotion threat: <40...Rxf2+ 41.Ke2 Rxh2 42.Rxc5 Rh1+ 43.Kf2> but resigned because it was hopeless after white creates 2R vs 1K mating threats with Rc7+. An interesting game. |