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Patrick Wolff vs Aleksey Dreev
Biel Interzonal (1993), Biel SUI, rd 10, Jul-27
French Defense: Exchange. Monte Carlo Variation (C01)  ·  0-1

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
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rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-14-10  Jesspatrick: I would love to hear Patrick Wolff's account of what went wrong in this game. I presume that he just botched it in time pressure.
Nov-09-15  zanzibar: Yes, what a shame and a missed opportunity.

White produced a very deep, very beautiful winning move from this position:

(White to move after ...Bc8-f5-g6-h7-g8-f7)


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r2q1r1k /1p2bbp1/2p2p1p/p2n1P1N/P2P4/1B3Q2/1P4PP/2BR1R1K w KQkq - 0 1

(I'm leaving the move off in case people want to actually solve it)

Aug-04-17  Howard: Well, after almost two years how about telling us what the "winning" move was ?
Jul-04-21  RookFile: He's not kidding. Takes the computer like 5 minutes to come up with the move Nxg7 from the diagrammed position. A guy like Tal may have just played it from intuition, but Wolff didn't want to take the chance. The computer calculates upwards to 20 ply to break down all of black's defenses.

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