“Knightmare” In Nimzowitsch Defense!

August 27, 2020 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Russian GM Sergey Smagin makes a Queen sacrifice which allows him to activate his pieces and on the other hand demoralize opponent’s position! The Black Queen gets bottled on the queen-side and White goes for the final blow! In the end of the video as usual you can solve the daily puzzle!
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Sergey Borisovich Smagin vs Dragutin Sahovic
Biel MTO op (1990), Biel SUI, rd 10, Aug-??
Nimzowitsch Defense: Scandinavian. Advance Variation (B00)
1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.c3 e6 5.Nd2 f6 6.f4 fxe5 7.fxe5
Nh6 8.Ndf3 Nf7 9.Ne2 Be7 10.Ng3 Bg4 11.Bd3 Ng5 12.Nxg5 Bxd1
13.Nxe6 Qb8 14.Nxg7+ Kd8 15.Kxd1 b5 16.Ne6+ Kc8 17.Nf5 Bf8
18.Rf1 Kb7 19.Bh6 Bxh6 20.Nc5+ Kc8 21.Nxh6 Ne7 22.Be2 Ng6
23.Nf7
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Introduction: 0:00
Critical Position: 1:57
Daily Puzzle: 6:14
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