Maxime Vachier Lagrave wins Speed Championship tuesday against Firouzja on chess.com- June 2020

Let's go the key moments of the last game. MVL is white, Firouzja is Black, they play a 3 minutes + 1 second increment

First position. MVL is white and has an interesting possibility to start an attack. can you find it?

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the answer is 16 Rxd7! sacrificing the exchange

Position 2. Firouzka played ..Qe7 to bring his queen to the defense. Thats logical but he missed White's strong reply White to play can you find it ?

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the answer is 19e5! threatening exf6 and if Black answers 19..fe5, White goes 20Ng5!

Position 3. Game continued and reached the last critical position on move 28. What would you play with white ?

MVL decided to go for 29 Qxf6 exchanging queens, but Nxf6 or N6xc5 followed by Nxf6 was winning on the spot. He converted in the rook endgame with 2 pawns up. MVL was pushing the entire game and Black never equalized.

Full Game Replay Here

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 dxc4 7. Qc2 a6 8. a4 c5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. Qxc4 b6 11. Bg5 Bb7 12. Nc3 Nbd7 13. Rfd1 Rc8 14. Qh4 Qe7 15. e4 h6 16. Rxd7 Qxd7 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qxh6 Qe7 19. e5 fxe5 20. Ng5 f6 21. Qg6+ Kh8 22. Bxb7 Qxb7 23. Nxe6 Rf7 24. Qh6+ Kg8 25. Qg6+ Kh8 26. Ne4 Qe7 27. Qh5+ Rh7 28. Qf5 Rg8 29. Qxf6+ Qxf6 30. Nxf6 Bxf2+ 31. Kg2 Rg6 32. Nxh7 Rxe6 33. Ng5 Rg6 34. Nf7+ Kg7 35. Nxe5 Re6 36. Kxf2 Rxe5 37. Re1 Rf5+ 38. Kg2 Rc5 39. Kf3 Rc4 40. Re4 Rc2 41. Re2 Rc4 42. b3 Rc1 43. h4 Kh6 44. Re6+ Kh5 45. Rxb6 1-0