A mate attack out of the blue

By master

Today will see the first game of the final Gelfand-Ponomariov at the World
Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. Opportunity for us to look back on an exciting moment
from the endgame Karjakin-Mamedyarov. The latter has just played 49…Rb2?
(diagram), thus giving his young opponent the unexpected chance to decide the
game by mating threats. Which surprising move helped the 19-year-old Ukraine
to secure victory now? Use this larger
diagram
to work it out for yourself. Grandmaster Karsten Müller has analysed
the endgame Karjakin-Mamedyarov
for ChessBase Magazine Online.

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