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Sac the Exchange on e6! | Grandmaster's Choice - GM Atanas Kolev

Grandmaster Atanas Kolev talks about the motif of sacrificing a rook on e6 for a bishop or knight. Black is left with doubled isolated pawns, wondering "What just happened to me?"

2022.01.13
Evgeny Bareev vs Giorgi Giorgadze, Moscow Olympiad (1994): A40 Modern defence
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2038072
Mikhail Tal vs Atanas Stefanov Kolarov, EUR-chT (Men) 4th (1970): B15 Caro-Kann, Gurgenidze system
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Mikhail Tal vs Anatoly Karpov, SWIFT Blitz (1987): B10 Caro-Kann, anti-anti-Caro-Kann defence
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