Wednesday 21 October 2020

Extraordinary (double) Exchange Sac - Karjakin vs Radjabov

For a short period of time I (had to) play the very aggressive but always unpleasant sharp variations of the Sicilian Dragon. Actually, I once managed a nice victory with a (not 100% correct) but typical Knight-sac on f3 and exchange-sac on c3:

However, this post is not a very late kind of posing on any of my games - I am not that type of guy (and actually this is the first time I publish a victory of mine). It is about a very intersting "Bf6"-move by Black initiating an impressive double exchange sac that made me not only recall my own game but thinking about putting both online and share:

 

Bf6 - escaping the exchange of the dark-squared bishops and sacrificing the exchange: excellent thinking!