Nice move

Fat Lady

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18 Jul 07

Fat Lady

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18 Jul 07

I was going through some games of Maxim Sorokin this morning. Sorokin died from injuries sustained in a car crash earlier this week.

Here is the position just before the end of a game where Sorokin was White against the Irish (via Russia) GM Alexander Baburin:

White to move and win.

Korch

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18 Jul 07

Originally posted by Fat Lady
I was going through some games of Maxim Sorokin this morning. Sorokin died from injuries sustained in a car crash earlier this week.

Here is the position just before the end of a game where Sorokin was White against the Irish (via Russia) GM Alexander Baburin:

[fen]r2q3k/pp3r1p/3ppp1B/2bNnR1Q/2p1P3/2P4R/PP4PP/7K w 0 23[/fen]
White to move and win.

Seems like Rxe5

Fat Lady

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18 Jul 07

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Originally posted by Korch
Seems like Rxe5

That's what I thought as I was going through the game, but Sorokin found a much better move!

onyx2006

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18 Jul 07

Originally posted by Fat Lady
I was going through some games of Maxim Sorokin this morning. Sorokin died from injuries sustained in a car crash earlier this week.

Here is the position just before the end of a game where Sorokin was White against the Irish (via Russia) GM Alexander Baburin:

[fen]r2q3k/pp3r1p/3ppp1B/2bNnR1Q/2p1P3/2P4R/PP4PP/7K w 0 23[/fen]
White to move and win.

Rxf6 also looks forcing... am I wrong?

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