A senseless sacrifice; but after:
5.Bxe7 Nxe7 Black is also clearly better thanks to his superior minor piece.
5.Bxe7 Nxe7 Black is also clearly better thanks to his superior minor piece.
Preventing Black's only active idea, ...Na5-c4. Besides which, a doubling of rooks with Rbc2 is enabled.
This simply drops a pawn. Preferable was 2...c6 with just a slight disadvantage – Yusupov.
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Radulov - Westerinen Helsinki 1972 White to move
1.Bxb7! Rxb7 2.Nc6!
With every exchange the inferiority of that rook will make itself more strongly felt.