Sacrifices Are Everywhere! Aronian vs Navara

August 14, 2017 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Levon Aronian vs David Navara
St. Louis Rapid & Blitz (Rapid) (2017), St. Louis, MO USA, rd 1, Aug-14
Queen’s Indian Defense: Fianchetto. Check Variation Intermezzo Line (E15)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Bg2 d5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. O-O
Re8 11. Ne5 Bb7 12. Qc2 c5 13. dxc5 bxc5 14. Rad1 Qc8 15. e4 Bf8 16. f4 d4 17.Nd5 Nxd5 18. exd5 f6 19. Rde1 fxe5 20. fxe5 Nd7 21. e6 Nf6 22. Rxf6 gxf6 23. Qf5 Qd8 24. Re4 Re7 25. Rg4+ Kh8 26. Be4 Rc8 27. Rh4 Kg8 (27… Rcc7
28. Qxf6+ Bg7 29. Rxh7+ Kg8 30. Rxg7+ Rxg7 31. Qxd8#) 28. Rxh7 Bxd5 (28… Rcc7
29. Qxf6 Rxh7 30. Bxh7+ Rxh7 31. Qxd8) 29. Qg6+ Rg7 30. Qh5 Bxe4 31. Rh8# 1-0
Video Icon Attribution: By Georgios1972 (Levon Aronian) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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