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Bassem Amin-Aman Hambleton
PRO League INT Rapid 2018
How did White continue to build up?
Black no longer has the possibility of …h7-h6, to drive this knight away. Now, White wants to follow up with ♕d1-g4-h4.
13…♘f5
The somewhat awkward 13…♘e5 was better, preventing White’s plan, though White is still better after the persistent 14.f4 ♘5c6 15.♕g4.
14.♕g4 ♖e8 15.♕h3 ♘d6 16.♕h7+ ♔f8 17.♘xd6 ♕xd6 18.♘e4 ♕d4 19.c3
Planning to follow up with ♗c1-h6, but other moves were equally good here.
19…♕d8 20.♗g5 1-0
Boris Spassky-Sergey Avtonomov
Leningrad 1949
White to move
He actually broke through right away!
12…♘bxd5
12…♘fxd5 prevents the pin by ♗c1-g5, but allows 13.a3, and 12…♗xd5 13.♗g5 boils down to the same thing.
13.♗g5
‘Black’s position resembles a prisoner tied by his legs and arms’ – Krogius.
13…♗e7 14.♗xf6 gxf6 15.♘xd5 ♗xd5 16.♗xd5 exd5 17.♘d4 ♔f8 18.♘f5 h5 19.♖xd5 ♕xd5 20.♕xe7+ ♔g8 21.♕xf6 1-0
Anatoly Ufimtsev-Ilya Kan
Moscow 1945
The knight capture 14…♘xe4 fails to 15.♗xe4 ♗xe4 16.♘d2. What should Black play instead?
14…♗xe4 can be answered with 15.♘d2 as well, or with the simpler 15.♗e2. After the suggested continuation:
14…♘xe4 15.♗xe4 ♗xe4 16.♘d2
Black should just continue with: