Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna by Emmanuel Neiman

Author:Emmanuel Neiman
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9789056914509
Publisher: New in Chess
Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Locked-in Piece/Square Clearance

Botvinnik,Mikhail

Stepanov,G

Leningrad ch-city 1930

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 c6 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 Be7 7.Bd3 h6 8.Bh4 0-0 9.0-0 a6 10.a4 dxc4 11.Bxc4 Nd5 12.Bg3 N7f6 13.Qc2 Bd7 14.e4 Nb4 15.Qe2 Qa5 16.Ne5 Rad8 17.f4 Bc8 18.f5 exf5

The simple act of noticing that an important piece could be trapped is enough to induce us to imagine any tactical idea. Here, Black’s queen has no retreat to d8 because of the rook, and b6 or c7 are not always available. The game was virtually over after just one move, the electric

19.Bxf7+!

This is a combination on the theme of square clearance. White simply thought, ‘if my knight was on c4, the queen would be lost’. And lost it was.

19…Rxf7 20.Nc4

Everything is clear, though Black played on a little. Most of the players who continue such a hopeless game have a secret motivation: to avoid the doubtful ‘honour’ of being part, on the receiving end, of a miniature (that is, a game of less than 22 moves).

20…b6 21.Nxa5 bxa5 22.exf5 Rxd4 23.Be5 Rd3 24.Rad1 Bc5+ 25.Kh1 Rxd1 26.Qxd1 Nfd5 27.Nxd5 Nxd5 28.Qc1 Bf8 29.Bd4 c5 30.Bxc5 Rc7 31.Bxf8 Rxd 32.Rxc1 Bxf5 33.Bd6 Be4 34.Bc7

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