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Sergei Movsesian-Alexey Dreev Solin 2006 White to move Give back the piece or…?
25.Qxb5! axb5 26.Rxa8 Qc7 27.Rxf8 Bxf8 28.Be6
You might have been afraid of Black’s marching central pawns. However, White easily manages to coordinate his pieces.
Already Black’s central pawn mass has come to a standstill; the white pieces continue to improve their positions.
32…Nh5 33.Ra1 Qb7 34.Nh4 Nf6 35.Ng6 Ne4 36.Bf4 Bxf4 37.Nxf4 Qb8 38.g3 d3 39.Bd5 Qe5 40.Ra8 g5
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Hikaru Nakamura-Maria Muzychuk Gibraltar 2016 White to move
16.fxe4 b4 17.Nxd5!
19…0-0 20.Rg1 Qc7 21.Bc4 Ba6 22.d6 Bxd6 23.Qxg6+ Kh8 24.Qxh6+ Nh7 25.Ng5 Ndf6 26.Rdf1
This position had already occurred a couple of times in practice. White did not manage to win a single one of these games, and indeed Black appears to have a safe fortress. Obviously White will not be able to create a passed pawn on the queenside. Without that, making progress on the kingside turns out to be impossible.