| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||
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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
| Linn, Gina - Martinovsky, Eugene |
| 0-1, 1988. |
[17.Bh6!! When I discovered this move about twenty years ago the computers were obviously not as strong as today. It took quite a while for the chess program to see the tactics, and that made me even more impressed by the beauty of the move. I was actually hoping to use the idea in one of my own games some day, but that will probably never happen. (It is not a very common theme, and besides black usually plays the more solid 5...0-0.)
The main point of the combination is that white is threatening Rad1, defending the rook and intending mate-in-one, while the rook on c3 is still hanging. If black takes white's rook, Bxg7 wins the bishop and regains the rook because of a double threat against the black rooks.
Taking the bishop with 17...Bxh6 is hopeless. After 18.Rad1 black must defend against the mate and white has time to take on c3. The white rooks will soon pick up black's queen side pawns.]
