Last time, I asked you to think about what to play in this position:
Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest peaked at World #5 in the 1991 FIDE rating list. After investing 17 of his remaining 36 minutes, he found the superb move 20.e5!.
In positions with 7 or 8 pawns on the board for each side, playing for a pawn break is usually required. But it’s one thing to know that – it’s something else entirely to calculate the consequences associated with moving a pawn to a square that is protected three times.
We will try to go through the variations, and get a deeper understanding of what Ehlvest probably calculated. First of all: What if Black plays 20…dxe5?
This is a difficult exercise. White to play and win!