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Destroying the opponent's center

For a few weeks now I have been revisiting GM Adrian Mikhalchishin's article, written for the FIDE Trainers' Commission, "Destroying the Opponent's Center". In this article, Mikhalchishin presents several examples taken from games played last century, wonderful examples, and three examples from this century. So I started looking for recent examples on this important topic. I share one of them. I encourage you all to share some examples, from your own games or games you consider instructive.

Note: Stockfish 16.1 considers the knight sacrifice on move fourteen to be wrong, although, from a human point of view, this sacrifice created big problems for the opponent.

You don't have to convince Stockfish that your plan is sound, you have to convince your opponent. :-) (Unless you are playing against Stockfish, of course.)
@mkubecek said in #2:
> You don't have to convince Stockfish that your plan is sound, you have to convince your opponent. :-) (Unless you are playing against Stockfish, of course.)

Exactly, very well said. Fully agree.
@Professor74 Thank you so much for posting on this very interesting topic. On the other hand, the comment you made about Stockfish's opinion on certain sacrifices is timely. I found a sacrifice to destroy the center, which is part of theory, that is, it has already been done several times, although it is still instructive.

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