Thursday Quiz 25.4.19

By Yelena Dembo | April 25, 2019 - 07:39 |April 26, 2019 Exercises, Our Middlegame and Endgame Collection, Quiz

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White to play

The solution is: 17.Nd6+! Qxd6 [17…exd6 18.Bxf6 d4 19.Qxd4 Nc6 20.Qf4+-] 18.Qxc8+ Kf7 19.Bb5!+- Bg7 [19…Qb6 20.Be8+ Kg7 21.Rab1 Qa6 22.Bb5] 20.Qxb7 Rd8 [20…a6 21.Ba4] 21.Qxa8 Qb4 22.Rab1 Qxh4 23.Be2 f5 24.g3 1-0

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