Today’s winning 5-second tactics!
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‘LONG VARIATION. WRONG VARIATION!’
gm Antic, D
gm Bogosavljevic, B
Serbian Ch Vrbas 18-04-2015 Position after 25 moves. White stands a bit better, and after 26.Rd1! BxN 27.RxR+ QxR 28.BxB Qc7 the game should probably be drawn with reasonable play by both sides. HOWEVER, White wanted more than this and , after some calculation, thought he found it:
26.Rb6 (?!)
The Black Queen has no moves, and White had figured that after the apparently logical 26…Be6 27.Qc5! there is considerable pressure being exerted. White must have been surprised when Black played…
26…BxN!
White had thought that this was suicide!
27.RxQ BxB!!
26.R-N6 was the very first move I saw, Kevin, but I would rather prefer 26 . . ., N-B3 instead, to block Rook’s attack, as a new piece is now developed, despite pinned.