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“Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every Chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime” – Eduard Gufeld
Eliminating the Pawn Centre Again
Baris Esen - Evgeny Postny
Legnica 2013
Black to move
White is threatening to win material with 17.Bd6 The best way to deal with this is . . . to go your own way:
16...cxd4! 17.Nd6 Nxe5!
This was the idea behind the previous move.
18.Nxe8 Nxf3+ 19.Qxf3 Qxe8
Now we're down to the usual exchange sacrifice. Once again Black has two extra central pawns, though the d-pawn is further advanced, which leaves it vulnerable and also creates some weak squares.
Later White missed some more critical points and quickly lost the game.
Don't always automatically recapture a central pawn.
There may well be good reasons to let the opportunity pass you by! Clearly (re-) capturing is the natural thing to do.
Oleg Romanishin - Lucas Brunner
Altensteig 1992
White to move
18.d5! exd5? 19.e5!
Oops! It's so easy to forget about this, as recapturing with 19.exd5 is the natural thing to do or expect.
19...Ne8 20.Nxd5
Black also had to watch out for the 21.Nf6+ discovered check, winning the queen.
20...Kf8 21.Qh5 R4b5 22.Qxh7 f6 23.Qg8+
A nice finishing touch. Black resigned.
A Target on e4