Improve Your Chess: That Tempo to Win Back Material

Improve Your Chess: That Tempo to Win Back Material

Opening: A22: English Opening

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In an OTB tournament game, a 'calm' English opening gets unbalanced when Black starts a kingside attack. White misses several chances to neutralize the attack and then Black finally breaks thru with a timely ...e5-e4. White responds by trapping Black's bishop on the kingside, but the time it takes him to recover this material is used by Black to build up a massive attack, highlighted with a pseudo-queen sacrifice. Black returns most of the material for a won endgame, and with some help from White, easily reels in the point.