Unity Chess Club
Shant Sargsyan Stamatis Kourkoulos Arditis EU-ch 2023 Black to move
The last white move was f3, fighting against the queen and bishop. However, this allows Black to trade one of the most important pieces on the board. Can you find the subtle sequence?
This intermediate move is very strong since forces white to retrear the knight to a more passive square.
Now there are a couple of interesting ways to play with the black pieces.
Despite having a terrible structure, the position is around equal. Black has a fantastic bishop on e4 and White cannot put pressure along the files. Plan: ...Rfe8, ...Re6, and ...Qe7 unpinning.
A nice intermediate move, attacking the knight, before we protect the e4-pawn. And now Black has a couple of playable options