![]() Qd2 Rae8, White is down the exchange for a pawn, but keeps playing to open lines for the attack with 23. ![]() The tactics in this Caro-Kann Advanced are fiendishly complex, but you never get the sense Firouzja is in over his head.Īfter 21. Qb7 before resigning a hopeless fight.įirouzja attracted early notice with games like today’s second offering, a tough win over German GM Matthias Bluebaum from the 2017 Aeroflot Open in Moscow. Qxb7 Rb8! (trapping the queen once again) 26. Nd2 a5, Black is a pawn up and holds all the positional trumps) c4!, and one can almost hear the cell door clanging shut.Įven tactical tricks can’t save Her Majesty here: 21. Rc2? (now there’s no turning back, but on 20. Ra1 Rd8) e6! - blocking the bishop’s attack on the rook while clearing e7 for the bishop. Bg4?! (again, White should hightail it with 18. ![]() Qxa7? Ra8 already show the perils awaiting the White queen) Rd6! 18. Nb3?! (closing what turns out to be a critical escape route, but 17. The fun begins when White’s queen finds herself caught in a web where struggling to get out only makes things worse: 17. With more space and two good bishops, Ali Salih is already better. Nxc5?! (if nothing else, Rabeea had total control of the d4-square, but this throws it away after 14. White takes a solid but unambitious approach in this Queen’s Pawn Game, then gives up both his one strong point and the initiative to Black after 13. FM Akar Ali Salih Salih appeared to be channeling some of those old Arab chess problems in the witty way he hunted down the queen of expert Sabah Nori Rabeea in their game from the event. Iraq’s rebuilding national chess program now ranks 85th in the FIDE global pecking order, and there was some fine play in the country’s 2021 national title tournament in Baghdad, won by FM Abdulsattar Abdulwahhab Ahmed earlier this month.
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