As someone who gave up on the King's Indian more than twenty years ago, I always root for the queenside attack. So FM Eric Rosen (who usually doesn't throw pieces to the wind) makes me happy in the following game. A piece gets sacked on 28, then an Exchange a few moves later...so I guess that's a deferred rook sacrifice.
The talented loser of this game, IM Daniel Naroditsky, is the author of the second third book I've ever read that was written by a teenager (I'm not sure that I finished Une Saison en Enfer, post pedantically amended to include Radiguet's Le Diable au Corps: oh you Frenchies). Naroditsky's Mastering Positional Chess is strongly recommended.
Black sacs back to reach a not-quite-tenable rook ending, and Eric gets to display his typical outstanding technique.
2 comments:
32......Rd b8 Blcak better?
I had the same thought. I considered the absurd 33.Qxb8+??!, with ideas like 33...Rxb8 34.a6 Bd4?! 35.b6 Bxb6? (or 35...Rxb6? 36.a7) 36.Rxb6 Rxb6 37.a7, but instead 34...f3 wins, e.g. 35.gxf3 Be5; 35.g3 Qd2; 35.a7 fxg2+ 36.Kxg2 Qh3+).
If White retreats his queen instead with 33.Qf2 or 33.Qg1, 33...Rxa5 is winning. I think White would have to play 33.Qc7, when Black can pretty much force a draw with 33...Rc8 34.Qb6 Rcb8 if he wants. But Black could play 33...Be5, similar to the game, when White no longer has Qg1 as a defense. I guess White can try 34.Rf3!? Bxf3 35.gxf3 Qh3 36.Be2, but then Black is a rook up, and with White's pawns only on the fifth rank, surely Black must be winning. This analysis is off the top of my engine-less head, so I may be all wet.
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