By Mihail Marin
Solid shielding skills earn gamers an outstanding many half-points and full-points. The climax of the defence is the launching of a devastating counter-attack, a ability at which the entire nice chess champions were adept. Of specific curiosity to membership avid gamers is Marin's dialogue of the way to guard opposed to unsound assaults, and the matter of the way to parry the assault whereas holding profitable probabilities. different subject matters contain assault and defence in equivalent positions, the place either side needs to pass judgement on conscientiously how a lot in their assets to commit to the assault and the counter-attack. the most topic, even though, is the case the place the defender is scuffling with for his existence, and needs to come to a decision how you can maximise his possibilities of survival. Marin considers mental matters and explains the most suggestions to be had to the defender: simplification, cold-blooded defence, a positional sacrifice, 'blackmailing' the attacker, or a counter-attack.
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In spite of having plenty of time at his disposal, he might have let himself be guided by general consider ations such as: the white pieces are well de fended, the knight controls important squares, the bishop is pinned; the king should therefore escape somehow. �e4+ 28 'it>f1 The king has to start walking. After 28 f3 Black reaches a draw without any difficulty: 28 .. :�'c2+ 29 '>t>f1 'ilidl + 30 'ilif2 'lIVd2+ 3 1 '>t>fl 'lIVdl + 32 'ilig2 'iWc2+ 33 Wh3 '&f5+. �c4+? 28 .. :�rhl+ 29 'ilte2 '&e4+ 30 'it>d2 'iWd5+ is the correct way to reach a position from the comment on Black's 3 1 st move.
Bl the weakness of the a5-pawn makes itself felt. Moreover, as a consequence of the exchange of one pair of rooks, the plan based on . . b4 would be less viable, because White could con sider taking the rook without risking falling un der attack. e2 a5 (D) 18 ... xb4; with the long dark diagonal safely blocked, White would easily repel the at tack with 22 . . ltxM axM 2S lZlbS lZld7 26 'itb2 c4 27 'ilVxc4 ! e8 30 as with strong compensation for the queen. Although there is a lot of room for improvements, it is clear that the position is double-edged.
27 �xe8? . which he can't resist taking. In spite of having plenty of time at his disposal, he might have let himself be guided by general consider ations such as: the white pieces are well de fended, the knight controls important squares, the bishop is pinned; the king should therefore escape somehow. �e4+ 28 'it>f1 The king has to start walking. After 28 f3 Black reaches a draw without any difficulty: 28 .. :�'c2+ 29 '>t>f1 'ilidl + 30 'ilif2 'lIVd2+ 3 1 '>t>fl 'lIVdl + 32 'ilig2 'iWc2+ 33 Wh3 '&f5+.