Theme: "Intermediate move" (Nos. 199-202) 199, Black to play (10 mins.) 200. White to play (6 mins.) Black to move reckoned hat he could capture the ed Black, of course, took into accaunt the possible double. pawn “for free". What had he overlooked? attack 1 8h3, but thought that after 1._.xd5 he would parry the threats. What had he missed? 201, Black to play (16 mins.) 202, White to play (20 mins.) White has just played e4-e3, confident that thee-pawn Both players saw the combination beginning with isinvainerable since 1. fixeS 2 Axes HxeS 4 Bel 1 Abah?#, but assessed is comectest differently. is decisive, Black, however, thought differently...199, 200. 201. 202, Grambezevski-Filep, Lublin, 1967 1... axe47? 2 @xc6! bxc6 3.a3 @xc3 4 HES! Hxb3 (no better is 4... Me2+ F Gh! Yd 6 Way7+ Qd8 7 tee? Bo 8 Wal exfé 9 Led, when White wins a piece) 5 exb3 Black resigns. Mukhin-Cheehelian, Moscow, 1972 1 Yh3 did 2 debs! sofB (2. 208 3 hd? mate) 3 Wxh+ 498 4 exds 65 (if 4... Wxb5, 5 Gid3! is decisive) 5 dd7 Black resigns. Nippgen-Werhegen, Strasbourg, 1973 1...@xe5! 2 Auxe5 Jed!! 314 (on 3 deed tyes 4 Be! Black had prepared 4 Wh2+ 5 fl Hhl+ 6 Bed Wred+) 1... Bxed! 4 dxed axt4 5 M03 (iS We? BAZ) 5...dbe34 6 B62 Wh2+ 7 GE) dhxt2 8 thei? Whl+ 9 Ge2 Hxed+ White resigns, Spassky-Capelan, Solingen, 1974 1 Agh7+! Gxh7 2 tihde Gg8 3 WyS! A xdl+ 4 Bxdl exb2+ 5 Gxb? thxc2 6 (a3 Hp6 (it was on this move that Black was pinning his hopes, but...) 7 8d3+ 2h78 Hhd+ Hh6 9 fxg?! (this was the move that Black had not foreseen) 9,..€2xe7 10 Bg8+ Cxg8 11 Wxh6, and White won. There followed 11...@c6 12 Bc5 Be? 13 Bed Bd5 14 g5, and Black resigned,