00:00It's a deadly pin, an absolute pin, because the king is here, and rook cannot be protected.
00:06So white has to take on e4, and then rook takes on e2, and white position collapses.
00:13And if you take on d2, then after e d2, it's an amazing situation where white rook is dominated
00:20because it cannot stop this pawn from promoting, and the bishop, which technically controls
00:25the square, it's pinned, so that's why bishop will be eliminated, and the promotion is inevitable.
00:32So simple, but very effective, bishop e4, and white is lost.
00:45And now it's time for a test, for a challenge.
00:50This time, it comes from my own game.
00:53The game I played against Vasily Ivanchuk, another Linares tournament.
00:58Not my best Linares, actually Karpov's best Linares, 1994.
01:02But I played a few nice games, and this is one of them.
01:06Look at this complicated, crazy position.
01:08It was a really crazy opening.
01:10Ivanchuk came up with a novelty in the Phoenix variation.
01:13But I managed to find sort of a good antidote.
01:18And Ivanchuk's attack on h5 was not as effective as my buildup against his king.
01:30But still, everything looks quite uncertain, and it's very important for white
01:35to find the right move to make sure that the game is turned in his favor.
01:44Can you find it?
01:46Pause.
01:47Try.
01:48x
01:50y
01:51y
01:53y
01:55y
01:57y
01:58y
02:00y
02:01y
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