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Fabiano Caruana vs Peter Svidler
Sinquefield Cup (2021), St. Louis, MO USA, rd 8, Aug-25
Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit (C53)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Aug-26-21  Ulhumbrus: The GMs in the commentary box indicated that after 21 Qb4 White threatened to acquire a winning positional advantage after Bd4. Svidler did not wait for this. With 21...Be4!! Svidler began to employ combination play that denied White the time needed to do this.

22...Rf6 develops a rook but GM Ashley indicated a less obvious way to develop the other rook instead.

22...Ra4!! develops the rook to the third rank in order to develop this rook (instead of Black's other rook) to first the h file and then to the g file .

GM Ashley gave ( amongst other things) 22...Ra4!! 23 f3 Bxf3!! 24 gxf3 Rh4! 25 f4 Rg4! 26 Kf2 Rf8xf4+!

Aug-26-21  Ulhumbrus: According to what the GMs in the commentary box indicated after 21 Qb4 White threatens to set up a winning positional advantage after Bd4. Svidler does not wait for this. With 21...Be4!! Svidler begins to employ combination play that denies White the time needed to do this.

22...Rf6 develops a rook to Black's third rank (or the algebraic sixth rank) but GM Ashley indicated a less obvious way to develop the other rook instead.

GM Ashley gave 22...Ra4!! developing Black's other rook to the Black's fifth rank (or the algebraic fourth rank) in order to develop this rook further to first the h file and then to the g file.

GM Ashley gave ( amongst other things) 22...Ra4!! 23 f3 Bxf3!! 24 gxf3 Rh4! 25 f4 Rg4! 26 Kf2 Rf8xf4+!

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