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19.b5
Otherwise Black would play . . . Na7-b5 .
19...a5 20.Kf2 b6 21.b4 a4 22.Nxa4 Bxb5 23.Nc3 Rxa1 24.Ra1 Bc4 25.Bc7 f6 26.Na4 Rf7 27.Bxb6
And eventually White managed to squeeze out a win.
Removing a Defender
Robert Hovhannisyan-Avetik Grigoryan
Yerevan 2013
Black to move
When exchanging a piece you can try to eliminate an active piece of your opponent, but when attacking you can also try and remove one of your opponent's strongest defensive pieces. So what would you play in the diagram position?
30...Qf5!
The difficulty here is maybe that, when conducting an attack on the king, you are disinclined to opt for an exchange of queens. Yet in this case, Black's attack continues with great force. The pawn on g2 is deprived of a defender and ... h4-h3 is a nasty threat.
31.Qxf5 exf5 32.Ra3 Nc4 33.Bxc4 bxc4 34.Re6
34...c3
But now 34...Bxg2+ 35.Kh2 Be4 was a pretty serious alternative.
35.Rxf6 h3 36.Rxh6 hxg2+
36...Rxg2+ seems more forcing, but Black won easily anyway.
"It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of the knowledge; it is a battle of nerves."
David Bronstein
Here White continued with 12.Ng5. What would be his idea and should it work out?