Chapter 9: Taimanov's Knight Check
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content.
This sacrifice of a knight is dubbed here 'Taimanov's Knight Check', after the game Karpov-Taimanov, Leningrad (1977) covered in the Forum "Game Showcase". In this game the approach was used to defeat a reigning world champion. The idea is for the h-pawn of the attacker to be advanced to the fifth rank before the knight check. A bishop limits the king's movement, justifying the knight sacrifice.
39) Black initiates the process with a knight sacrifice to open the h-file.
40) Similar bishop coverage makes the knight sacrifice by White worthwhile.
41) White moves. A bishop covering g8 setting up the stage for the knight sacrifice. Once the h-file is cleared, Black cannot stop checkmate.
playing the role of the bishop in the other puzzles. After the knight sacrifice, 
flies to the other side of the board and white cannot stop checkmante.
