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Vladimir Kramnik - Mikhail Ulybin, Khalkidniki 1992

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Another impressive game, analysis shows a King centralization starting on move 23, leading to a rook-supported pawn storm on the kingside. The key move is, again, a pawn sacrifice: 36.g5!! giving tremendous activity to White's Rooks and Bishops alike.

Now to the last game of the section.

An illustrative game from the section "The Revenge of the Bishops", closing the 2 Knights v. 2 Bishops chapter. The dynamism of the Bishop pair truly shines, giving even more relevance to Black King safety issues on the opening diagonals.

Garry Kasparov - Andrei Sokolov, Belfort 1988:

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Knight dynamism v. Bishop pair:

Beginning moves of the game Leif Ogaard - Janos Flesch, Oslo (1974)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 O-O 6.Nf3 d5 7.O-O
cxd4 8.exd4 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Bxc3 10.bxc3 Qc7 11.Qe2 Nbd7 12.Bd2 b6
13.Bd3 Bb7 14.c4 Rac8 15.Rac1 Bxf3!? 16.Qxf3 e5

A Nimzo-Indian game illustrating the importance of dynamism in Modern chess:

Atalik - Sax, Szeged (1997)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 Ne4 7. Qc2 Nc6 8. e3 e5 9. cxd5 Qxd5 10. Bc4 Qa5+ 11. b4 Nxb4 12. Qxe4 Nc2+ 13. Ke2 Qe1+ 14. Kf3 Nxa1 15. Bb2 O-O 16. Kg3 Kh8 17. dxe5 Be6 18. Nf3 Qxh1 19. Ng5 g6 20. Nxf7+ Rxf7 21. Bxe6 Rg7 22. Bf7 Rxf7 23. e6+ Kg8 24. Qd4 Kf8 25. exf7 Kxf7 26. Qd7+

Miles - De Firmian, Manila (1990)

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Highlights:
- The accelerating move 8...d5!, paving the way for the increasingly active duo of black Knights,

- 16... Re8!!, offering the Knight on f6 to open lines on White's king,

- 22.... Rxe5!! And if Bxe5 Qe8, with a devastating attack. The actual continuation of the game is a wonderful coordinated attack with Q+N+B.

A formidable maneuvering game played between Kasparov and Nunn (Lucerne, 1982)

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If 15...g5, 16.Bxd6! Bxa4 17.Rxa4 Qxd6 18.e5!

And, for instance: 18.fxe5 19.Nxg5 b5 20.Rxb4! cxb4 21.Cce4, with fearsome knights, allowing future ideas Qh5, Ne6 and f6 or d6 and Qd5+

I would like to use my knights half as well as Adams!

Adams - Conquest, Hastings 1996/7
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Another illustrative game about the ways to make the best use of knights when you have given the Bishop pair to your opponent. In short exploit your development lead to open the position, create weaknesses, that is future outposts for the Knights, negating Bishop activity.

T. Petrosian - P. M. Nielsen, Nimzowitsch Memorial, Copenhagen 1960

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Une autre partie d'illustration de l'idée pour mettre en valeur les cavaliers face à la paire de Fous !

R. J. Fischer - B. Spassky, Belgrade 1992

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S. Budnikov - I. Naumkin, Lloyd Bank Masters 1993

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[Sur la façon d'améliorer les Cavaliers face à la paire de fous :]

'Dans chaque variante de chaque partie, les Noirs ont converti leur développement et leur pression en contrôle d'un complexe de couleur, et c'est l'ouverture précoce de la position par les Noirs qui a causé la rigidité de la structure. blanche.'