NM Dan Heisman selects for you highly instructive games, that will help you improve your game! In this new series, Dan analyzes famous and not-so-famous games that he thinks will give you a tool to get to the next level.

Today's show: I play an English which NM Pariseau defends as a Reverse Benoni: White gets the kingside pawn majority and Black the queenside. Using a deep positional combination, I active my majority. Then, with a series of (uncharacteristically) accurate moves, I take advantage of a weakness on Black's kingside to apply pressure and eventually force Rich to give up a key central pawn. I then consolidate my advantage and target the Black isolated queen pawn. With that pawn about to fall too, Rich oversteps the time limit in a lost position.

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