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
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?
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.
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Here White continued with 12.Ng5. What would be his idea and should it work out?
Yury Shulman-Mackenzie Molner
Wheeling 2014
Wheeling 2014