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Inside Chess magazine ran from 1988 to 2000 during which time it was one of the world's top chess magazines. A new column is posted the third Saturday of each month.
Since 1996
Inside Chess magazine ran from 1988 to 2000 during which time it was one of the world's top chess magazines. A new column is posted the third Saturday of each month.
Inside Chess 1997/15
Two Classical Sacrifices: Made and Unmade
by GM Leonid Shamkovich
The classical Bxh7+ sacrifice is one of the first, and most useful, "stock" sacrifices we all learn. Here are two examples of this recurring combinational theme.
Shamkovich,Leonid - Hunt,D
U.S. Amateur Team (ch), 1997
Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinnik [B14]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Be7
A fashionable move is 6...Bb4!?.
7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.0-0 Nxc3?!
9...0-0 10.Re1 Bf6 is better.
10.bxc3...
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