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  • From one of my tournament games:
  • I played b5 here which is not the
  • best.
  • Black to Move

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  • The move f4 for black prevents white
  • from playing to the same square,
  • and gives black a little more space.
  • Black to Move

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  • Fritz likes Qf6 with the f3 fork
  • threat. So now after Qf3, the move
  • b5 can be played like in the actual
  • game. The difference here is,
  • as Silman says, why let your opponent
  • expand on one side of the board
  • when you can expand on both?
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  • Black to Move

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  • exf4 prevents the creation of a white
  • passed pawn on the d file.
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  • Black to Move

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  • It should be obvious that White is
  • about to lose.
  • Black to Move

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  • Black to Move

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  • Black to Move

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  • Although other moves still win, Qa4
  • is the fastest. The queen is
  • going to go to c2 and then to b1 and
  • the game is over.
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  • Black to move

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  • e5 is the strongest move allowing
  • black to rid himself of his backward
  • pawn
  • and maybe create a passed pawn by
  • playing e4. White can't take the
  • pawn
  • because of Nxe5 winning a piece.
  • Later the e5 pawn advance lead to
  • other
  • tactical complications.
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  • Black to move

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  • Na5 is the strongest way to win
  • material because of the Bc6 threat.
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  • Black to move

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  • e4 wins the queen because if Qg2
  • Nxe3+ forks the king and queen.
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  • Black to move

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  • Ne7 wins material with the threat of
  • Bc6, and the knight to e7 deters
  • Bd5.
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  • Black to move

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  • A senior master played Nf6, but Fritz
  • likes instead Nd4, Nxd4
  • Black to move

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  • Kg1 will be the same
  • Black to move

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  • With some pressure in the position.
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  • Black to move

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  • White captures with the knight to
  • protect f4.
  • Black to move

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  • Ditto to g3.
  • Black to move

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  • with eventual Bxe2+ followed by e5
  • and center pressure.
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