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  • White: A rated class A player.
  • Black: A rated Master.
  • Where: A tournament in Salt Lake
  • City.
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  • The Sicillian Defense as we have
  • already seen.
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  • Develops and prepares d4.
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  • Black would like to be able to play
  • Nf6 without e5 being too much of a
  • nuisance.
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  • This unusual line prepares to go into
  • a gambit.
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  • Black Develops.
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  • White Develops.
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  • Attacks the pawn that can't be
  • defended by Nc3.
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  • This sets a trap ...
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  • ... that Black falls for by taking
  • the pawn.
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  • Now the knight on c6 can't move
  • because then Qa4+ would fork the king
  • and the knight on e4.
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  • Since he is going to lose the knight
  • anyway, the master decides to take a
  • pawn.
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  • White captures the knight
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  • He has to move this knight.
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  • Now that White is winning, he wants
  • to trade as many pieces as possible
  • to simplify the position.
  •  Doubling the pawns also doesn't
  • hurt.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • White pursues a goal of forcing
  • pieces to trade off.
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  • Blocks the check.
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  • Guards the bishop and prepares to
  • trade off both the bishop and the
  • queen.
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  • Black is under no obligation to trade
  • pieces, so he makes an opening for
  • his bishop.
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  • White doesn't have to be in a hurry
  • to trade pieces.  Instead he
  • attacks a pawn while developing.
  •  This will force Black to defend
  • the pawn.
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  • Black defends the pawn while
  • developing his rook.
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  • This knight move sets a very subtle
  • trap .....
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  • ... that Black falls for.
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  • Now the exchanges start.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • With queens off the board White
  • should win.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • And now the trap becomes apparent.
  •  White threatens both the fork
  • Nb6+ and to win the pawn on e5.
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  • This stops the fork.
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  • White grabs his booty.
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  • Develops and attacks the knight.
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  • White goes wrong here.  Much
  • better is Nf3.
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  • Now the master fights back!
  •  White can't take the pawn
  • because his knight would drop.
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  • The bishop must retreat.
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  • This move puts White in a real bind.
  •  Black threatens to win the
  • bishop with f4 and/or win the knight
  • on e5 as well.
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  • But White fights back with a counter
  • threat of d7+.
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  • Captures the pawn.
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  • Threatens Nxd6+ forking the king and
  • rook.
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  • Prevents the fork.
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  • Captures the pawn with check.
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  • Black might like to win the knight
  • and bishop for a rook.   Now
  • White merely needs to play Rad1 and
  • he has a won game.  He is not
  • worried about f4 because he can play
  • Nf7+ winning the rook.
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  • But instead White makes a major
  • blunder by capturing this pawn.
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  • This rook move pins the knight to the
  • king and there is no good way to
  • defend the knight.
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  • White thinks that if he can get both
  • his rooks active that he might still
  • have winning chances.
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  • Gets out of check and attack the
  • knight.
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  • Here comes the other rook.
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  • There goes the knight.
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  • White hopes that if he can penetrate
  • Black's position with his rooks that
  • he can get some advantage.
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  • Check.  Material is even.
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  • As we are nearing the endgame, White
  • would rather have the king in the
  • center of the board.
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  • Black fights back by attacking a pawn
  • on the 7th rank.   Just playing
  • b3 will not work because the pawn on
  • c3 will drop.
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  • White is hoping for Rxd6, Bxd6 where
  • he will have an advantage because of
  • his rook on the 7th rank and the
  • relative weakness of the Black
  • pawns.
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  • But Black defends accurately.
  •  Now Rxb6 Rxb6 is bad for White
  • because of the weakness of his b2
  • pawn.  Also bad is Rxf6 Bxf6
  • where he has both a pawn and a rook
  • hanging.
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  • Unfortunately the rook must retreat
  • to a more defensive position.
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  • Now Black forces a trade of that
  • annoying rook on the 7th rank.
  •  The game is now even but
  • eventually the strong expert was able
  • to win in the endgame when White fell
  • into time trouble.
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