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08-06-2015 , 06:58 AM
White to play. All comments are in the spoiler.



Spoiler:
This position comes from the game Sax-Ree 1984 and the position occurred after 20...Rfd8. The solution is 21. a4! Rxd4 22. axb5 Rxd1+ 23. Rxd1 and black resigns because the bishop has no moves and the queenside is falling apart. I saw this in a book and thought it was a nice puzzle.

Here's the full game -- http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1276924

Quote:
[Event "It open I"]
[Site "Amsterdam NED"]
[Date "1984.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Gyula Sax"]
[Black "Hans Ree"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "2575"]
[BlackElo "2480"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Be7 6.c4 Ngf6 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Bd3 c5 9.O-O cxd4 10.Nxd4 Ne5 11.Be2 Bd7 12.Bf4 Ng6 13.Bg3 Bc5 14.Bf3 Qb6 15. Nb3 Bb4 16.c5 Qa6 17.Qd6 Bb5 18.Nxb5 Qxb5 19.Rfd1 h5 20.Qd4 Rfd8 21.a4 Rxd4 22.axb5 Rxd1+ 23.Rxd1 1-0
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08-06-2015 , 10:37 AM
Spoiler:
After looking for a couple of minutes I'm going to go with 1. a4 Rxd4 2. axb5 Rxd1 3. Rxd1 gives black the open file and c6 looks super strong. 2... Rad8 3. Rxd4 Rxd4 4. Rxa7 seems even worse for black since he cannot use the open file to penetrate effectively to d2 or d1 and c6 is coming one way or another.


Yay!
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