Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Anand-Wang Yue, Linares 2009 Variation

The game Anand-Wang Yue 1-0, Linares 2009 can be replayed here.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1535930

Instead of 25..Kf6? losing to 26 Rf3+, Wang could have chosen 25..Kf8 26 Rc7! f6 leading to the following position.

White to play and win (Anand-Wang Yue 2009 Variation)


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Td3

chess_planet said...

You found it, congrats !

1 Rd3! wins because 1..Rxd3 looses immediately in view of intermediary check 2 Rxc8+, winning a bishop.

There's no other defense after 1 Rd3!, which looks routine but is extremely strong.