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.

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