Yarovoy — Zubarev

Correspondence tournament1912

• YarovoyRussian correspondence player of the early 1900s.
• Nikolai Zubarev (1894–1951)Soviet master and two-time Moscow champion (1927, 1930). He played in the 1925 and 1933 USSR Championships and later became one of the country's leading arbiters.

Black has two pawns in the center, White has one; take that one away as well, and Black will control the center completely.

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2. It also opens the c-file, which helps the attack on the white king
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4. White cannot hold on to the pawn on d4
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12. Now Black has reached the ideal pawn setup in the center
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18. The decisive blow. The game went on:
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25. And Black mates in a few moves
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