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If you have studied each of the prior isolated queen pawn positions, you should have a shot at knowing what to do here. The game is a famous one, fully annotated in my Openings for Amateurs—Next Steps book. It starts out Botvinnik,M. - Vidmar,M. Nottingham, 1936 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Nc3 0–0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Bd3 c5 8.0–0 cxd4 9.exd4 dxc4 10.Bxc4 Nb6 11.Bb3 Bd7 12.Qd3 Nbd5 13.Ne5 Bc6 14.Rad1 Nb4 15.Qh3 Bd5 16.Nxd5 Nbxd5 17.f4 Rc8 18.f5 exf5 19.Rxf5 Qd6 SEE DIAGRAM


20.Nxf7 Rxf7 21.Bxf6 Bxf6 22.Rxd5 Qc6 23.Rd6 Qe8 24.Rd7 Black Resigned. If you play over the game, you will see how you reach this IQP attacking position.

 


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