Improve Your Rating- 7/19/09
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on Sun, 07/19/2009 at 4:47pm.
Well, the articles in this series seem to grow less frequent as time progresses, so I'll do one when I can.
In a few recent games of mine, I've encountered an opening pattern that can be seen from many different opening paths.
The main characteristics of the pattern are the sacrifice of the bishop on f7, the king takes, and the knight checks on g5 with an attack on e6. Here's an example in a game of mine:
That was a basic opening example. Sometimes the tactic happens a few moves later with more pieces developed.
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-Wicksta85