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Levon Aronian vs Jon Ludvig Hammer
Norway Chess (2013), Sandnes NOR, rd 6, May-14
Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
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May-14-13
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  HeMateMe: This type of position is pretty common in typical club games, too. Race between two center pawns v. one outside pawn. Instructive tactic on how to win with the center pawns.
May-14-13  dumbgai: Looks like an opening disaster for Hammer. Dominguez played 13...Bxf3 14. Bxf3 Bxd4: Pelletier vs L Dominguez, 2008
May-14-13  Ulhumbrus: After 21 Qd5 it looks like an exciting battle between White's centre and Black's passed a pawn.

Instead of 21..a2, 21...Rae8?? looks like a blunder which loses immediately.

The capture 22 Rxe8 clears the diagonal h4-d8 for White's queen's bishop to come to g5 and support the coronation of the d pawn.

In addition it draws Black's remaining rook on to the square e8 so that d7 attacks the rook and so comes with tempo.

May-14-13  Eyal: <Instead of 21..a2, 21...Rae8?? looks like a blunder which loses immediately.>

21...a2 also loses by force to 22.Rxf7! Rxf7 (22...a1Q 23.Ra7+ Kh8 24.Rfxa1) 23.Qxa8+ Rf8 (23...Bf8 24.e6) 24.Qd5+ Kh8 25.Bd4. In order to defend against the threat of Rxf7 created by 21.Qd5! and not lose immediately as he did in the game, Black has to move the rook away from the a-file to a different square on the 8th rank than e8, but that's a concession that probably leads to a loss anyway.

May-21-13  Zenchess: Instead of 13...Nc6?, 13...Bxf3! and 14...Bxd4 lead to a Black advantage. I have no idea what Black was thinking in this game.
May-29-13  tonsillolith: Very nice. The move <19. gxf3> actually serves to protect the White king rather than weaken his defenses, in that it gives the king some luft in case White needs to capture Black's queened pawn and allow back-rank check.

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