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MUST KNOW Exchange Sacrifice in the Catalan Opening – Alexandr Shimanov vs Ivan Salgado Lopez

Amazing idea for black in the Catalan Opening.

PGN OF THE GAME:

[Event “EU-ch 12th”]
[Site “Aix-les-Bains”]
[Date “2011.03.30”]
[Round “8”]
[White “Shimanov, Alexandr”]
[Black “Salgado Lopez, Ivan”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “2550”]
[BlackElo “2630”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “E06”]
[Opening “Catalan Opening: Closed”]
[Termination “Normal”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 { E06 Catalan Opening: Closed } O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Qc2 b5 8. a4 b4 9. Ne5 Qxd4 10. Bxa8 Qxe5 11. Bf3 Ba6 12. Bf4 Qa5 13. Nd2 b3 14. Qc1 Qb4 15. Be5? { (-0.61 β†’ -2.07) Mistake. Rd1 was best. } (15. Rd1 Nd5 16. Ne4 Qb7 17. Nd2 Nxf4 18. Bxb7 Nxe2+ 19. Kf1 c3 20. Bxa6 Nxc1 21. Raxc1 c2) 15… Nd5 16. e4? { (-2.27 β†’ -3.74) Mistake. Ne4 was best. } (16. Ne4 Nc6) 16… Nc6 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. exd5 Nd4 19. dxe6? { (-3.47 β†’ -7.00) Mistake. Bd1 was best. } (19. Bd1 Rd8 20. dxe6 Nxe6 21. Ne4 Bb7 22. Qc3+ Qxc3 23. Nxc3 Rd2 24. Bg4 Rxb2 25. Bxe6 fxe6) 19… Qxd2 { White resigns. } 0-1

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(3/4) I missed one very likely obvious winning move.
Here I played Bg2? but I should just play Qh6!
For some reason I had missed ...Qxh6 Bxh6 ...Nxc3 a3! Which is game over.
In the end I lost πŸ˜” after Johann played excellently.

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