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The Queen’s Gambit Declined is strategically very rich opening where my favourite line is the Exchange Variation with 11. Rab1 in which White goes for minority attack. On the other hand it is very difficult for Black to go for a minority attack of his own on the king-side because of king’s safety issues, though this can sometimes be implemented when queens are off from the board. This is a very nice example of a Black minority attack, changes in the pawn structure eventually seeing him getting a half open f-file which he prises open with 44…g5, 46…h5 and 47…g4. It is also quite interesting to see how d4 becomes White’s weakness if he goes for e3-e4 plan, especially if Black manages to place his knights on c6 and e6. 9. Bd3 Nf8 10. O-O c6 11. Rae1 Ng4 12. Bxe7 Rxe7 13. b4 Qd6 14. b5 c5 15. e4 c4 16. e5 Qd8 17. Bf5 Bxf5 18. Qxf5 Nh6 19. Qc2 Ne6 20. Rb1 Rd7 21. Ne2 g6 22. Ng3 Kg7 23. Qc3 a6 24. b6 a5 25. Rb5 Ra6 26. Rfb1 Ng8 27. Qe3 Ne7 28. Ng5 Nc6 29. Nxe6+ fxe6 30. Ne2 Qf8 31. Qh3 Re7 32. a3 Ra8 33. Rd1 Rae8 34. Rb2 Rf7 35. Qe3 Qe7 36. f3 Ref8 37. Rbd2 Qd8 38. Rb1 Qh4 39. Nc3 Qf4 40. Qxf4 Rxf4 41. Ne2 R4f7 42. Nc3 Rf4 43. Ne2 R4f7 44. Nc3 g5 45. Rbd1 Kg6 46. Ne2 h5 47. Kf2 g4 48. f4 Rxf4+ 49. Nxf4+ Rxf4+ 50. Ke2 Kf5 51. Rf1 Rxf1 52. Kxf1 Ke4 53. Ke1 c3 54. Rf2 might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts ASHVIN CHAUHAN (…), to establish a minor piece on a strong square (…), to improve one’s own pawn structure (…), or to gain time for Last week we looked at one of the two exchange sacrifices we played during a vote game online. You can revisit it HERE the bishop pair forced White to return it with interest. What do you think about the position we reached? might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts Now the question was how to make progress. The obvious 42… RD2+ 43. RE2 … did not seem to bring much at first glance. Our titled player was again the first one to propose the second exchange sacrifice with 42… BC2 The idea behind it was to free up the c4-square for our