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    22 Jun '21 02:57
    Having played through the games that appeared in the Queen's Gambit miniseries, I found one sequence particularly enchanting. It occurred in Luchenko-Harmon in episode 7. Here is the complete game
    score, and just below that is a diagram showing the position where the sequence begins.



    Here's the position after 38. f3.



    38...h5

    This opens the rank for the f4-rook to hit h4. Yet it invites White's pawn to reach the g6-square, where it would seem to impede Black's mobility on the kingside.

    39. gxh5 Kh8

    The king would have had to move shortly anyway.

    40. hxg6 Rxh4

    Now the h-file is open...

    41. Rh1

    ...but how does Black's c7-rook join the attack?



    41...Rch7!!

    That's how. On 42. gxh7, 42...Qg7+ would be decisive.

    What a marvelously imaginative sequence! It brought Black victory within a few moves.

    (The position after 38. f3 was reached also in A. Petrosian--Akopian from Yerevan, 1988, but Black played 38...Rcf7. The game was drawn on move 46.)

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