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A tactic a day keeps the losses at bay!
[FEN “rqbr1bk1/1p1n1ppp/p2p1n2/3NpNB1/4P3/1B3Q2/PPP2PPP/R4RK1 b – – 0 14”]
How should White respond to 14…Re8?
Gresser,Gisela Kahn – Kattinger,Ingeborg
GER, 1963
Sicilian Najdorf [B90]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 Qc7 7.Bb3 e5 8.Nde2 Be7 9.0-0 0-0 10.Bg5 Nbd7 11.Ng3 Rd8 12.Nf5 Bf8 13.Nd5 Qb8 14.Qf3 Re8
15.Nh6+!! 1-0 15…Kh8 (15…gxh6 16.Nxf6+ forces mate in six at most, i.e., 16…Kh8 17.Qf5) 16.Nxf7+ Kg8 when both the spectacular 17.Nd8 and the more prosaic 17.Bxf6 lead to a win.
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