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23...Qd7 24.e6
Black resigned.
Viswanathan Anand 2770
Michael Adams 2670
Madrid 1998

White to move
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Viswanathan Anand 2770 Michael Adams 2670 Madrid 1998 White to move
White has a bishop that has no good square. After his next move, however, such a square appears, and the black king is seriously weakened:
36.Nf6+! gxf6 37.Bxh4 Rg4 38.Bxf6 Ne3
Other replies are no better.
39.Rxc7
Black resigned.
Maxim Turov 2539
Valery Popov 2587
Russia 2006
Black to move
40...Rxg2+! 41.Nxg2 Rg6 42.Qe2 e3 43.Ra2 Kf7
A picturesque position. White is completely stalemated.
44.Rb2 Bd8
There is no defence against the transfer of the bishop to f2. White resigned.
Robert Byrne
Robert Fischer
New York ch-USA 1963
Black to move
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Robert Byrne Robert Fischer New York ch-USA 1963 Black to move
White has incautiously moved his rook from f1, where it defended the f2-pawn, and put his dark-squared bishop on a3, where it looks active but does not control any central squares. Black brilliantly exploits these circumstances:
15...Nxf2! 16.Kxf2 Ng4+ 17.Kg1 Nxe3 18.Qd2 Nxg2 19.Kxg2 d4
The long diagonal decides the game.
20.Nxd4 Bb7+ 21.Kf1 Qd7!
Byrne resigned: 22.Qf2 Qh3+ 23.Kg1 Re1+! (a small tactic to finish things off) 24.Rxe1 Bxd4 25.Qxd4 Qg2#.