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Dan Heisman's Highly Instructive Games: Keres-Winter 1935

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: Young Keres was in a mood to gambit material for a lead in development. As so often happens in imbalanced positions, the defender failed to find the right balance of material and time and Keres sacrificed a knight to prevent Winter from castling (but not before Stockfish found a brilliant improvement on Keres' play). Keres then had a winning attack, which he played well, and never let Winter back in the game, winning a miniature that made him world famous.

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