00:00White position collapses, and if you take on d2, then after e d2, it's an amazing situation where white rook is dominated because it cannot stop this pawn from promoting, and the bishop, which technically controls this square, it's pinned.
00:16So that's why bishop will be eliminated, and the promotion is inevitable.
00:20So, simple, but very effective.
00:23Bishop e4, and white is lost.
00:30And now it's time for a test, for a challenge.
00:39This time, it comes from my own game.
00:42The game I played against Vasily Ivanchuk, another Linares tournament.
00:47Not my best Linares, actually Karpov's best Linares, 1994, but I played a few nice games, and this is one of them.
00:54Look at this complicated, crazy position.
00:57It was a really crazy opening.
00:59Ivanchuk came up with a novelty in the Phoenix variation, but I managed to find sort of a good antidote, and Ivanchuk's attack on H-File was not as effective as my buildup against his king.
01:19But still, everything looks quite uncertain, and it's very important for white to find the right move, to make sure that the game is turned in his favor.
01:34Can you find it?
01:36Pause.
01:37Try.
01:38As we are looking at the overload, it's quite natural that this move should...
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