Featured is brilliant game between Peter Leko and Ehsan Ghaem Maghami from the 2001 World Team Championship. In response to the Sicilian Najdorf, Polugaevsky variation, Leko plays e5 to target the pinned knight and open the position for his better developed pieces. Ghaem Maghami’s 17th move b4 to try and keep the position closed seems correct since black needs time to catch up in development. However b4 is a blunder, and shortly thereafter we witness a fantastic sacrifice of a rook that is calculated out beautifully to a position where a queen will fall in full with check. But hang on, the queen will quickly return! 🙂
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Image of Peter Leko by Lennart Ootes
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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 b5 8. e5 dxe5 9. fxe5 Qc7 10. exf6 Qe5+ 11. Be2 Qxg5 12. O-O Ra7 13. Qd3 Rd7 14. Ne4 Qe5 15. Nf3 Qxb2 16. Qe3 Bb7 17. a4 b4 18. Rab1 Qxc2 19. Nfg5 Qc7 20. Rxb4 Bxe4 21. Nxe4 Bxb4 22. fxg7 Rg8 23. Nf6+ Kd8 24. Nxg8 Bc5 25. Nf6 Bxe3+ 26. Kh1 Kc8 27. Nxd7