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Playing with Material Imbalances - Part 2

Aug 1, 2013
22 min
15690 Views
GM Ben Finegold sacrifices the exchange again in another brilliant combination. He channels his inner 19th-century persona and acts like Morphy in his stylistic treatment of the Sicilian. The tactic is far from obvious, and is pleasing in that black has many options but no path to fully extricate his king. And like many games from long ago, we even end with multiple queen possibilities and stalemate traps. Now that's a full game!