Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic

Author:Vladimir Vukovic [Vukovic, Vladimir]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: [Kobo], Chess, Non Fiction, Tactics
ISBN: 9781857448306
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

This position comes from an analysis of the game Capablanca-Nimzowitsch, Bad Kissingen 1928. White mates as follows:

1 Nfg5! fxg5

Deflecting the pawn from f6.

2 Nf6!

Blocking the f7-pawn.

2 ... Bxf6 3 Be4

and Black has no way of stopping mate on h7.

White here overcame the resistance of Black’s f-pawn on the diagonal b1-h7 by making sacrifices which deflected one pawn and blocked the other.

This position arose in the game Steinitz-L. Paulsen, Baden-Baden 1870. It is White’s move, and he is faced with the task of finding the most effective attacking plan against Black’s castled position. To this end he played:

1 b6!

White gives up a pawn in order to weaken Black’s castled position and open up the a- and b-files. This kind of pawn sacrifice is instructive and typical. Its advantage lies in the fact that Black has no way of blocking the pawn structure but is forced to capture in order to avoid getting into worse difficulties.

1 ... axb6 2 Rxf6!

The castled position has been effectively weakened and the situation is ripe for the further thrust a5, that being the logical method of following up 1 b6!, but Steinitz sees that, before playing a5, he can strengthen his attack still further by sacrificing the exchange.

2 ... Qxf6 3 Bg4+ Kb8 4 Nd5 Qg7 5 a5

Now the force of this move is even greater than before.

5 ... f5

If 5 ... b5, then 6 a6 b6 (or 6 ... bxa6 7 Qa5 Qxd4+ 8 Bf2) 7 a7+ Kb7 8 Nxc7 Kxc7 (or 8 ... f5 9 Ne6) 9 Qc3+ Kb7 10 Bd7 with a decisive attack.

If 5 ... c5, then White plays 6 axb6 Qxd4+ 7 Qxd4 cxd4 8 Nc7 followed by 9 Ra8#.

6 axb6 cxb6 7 Nxb6 Ne7

Black must parry the threat of 8 Qc3.

8 exf5 Qf7 9 f6! Nc6

Or 9 ... Qxf6 10 Qc3 Nc6 11 Ra8+ Kc7 12 Nd5#.

10 c4 Na7 11 Qa2 Nb5 12 Nd5 and White won after 12 ... Qxd5 13 cxd5 Nxd4 14 Qa7+ Kc7 15 Rc1+ Nc6 16 Rxc6#

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