Bishop sacrifice on h7 leads to spectacular victory

By master

Whereas the main attention was focussed on Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia at
the start of the World Team Championship, the hosts Turkey had the joy of a
spectacular win: 19-year-old Emre Can defeated Yuri Shulman, almost 200 Elo points
stronger, in a Tarrasch French with the help of a bishop sacrifice
on h7. The 2008 USA champion, however, was not following the recommendations of
Hannes Langrock, whose four-part article in CBMs 126-129 presents the theory of
the 3…Be7 system in great detail and with a lot of original analysis. Here is
the game with brief notes.
Full analysis by Igor Stohl will follow, in February in CBM 134.

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