After four rounds of the Moscow Open Men’s Cup of Russia event Tamir Nabaty (Israel), Boris Savchenko (Russia) and Nikolai Shukh (Russia) suffer no losses so far. Seven chess players with half a point less are chasing them. Creative work of the chasing group is represented in our traditional section. The game of the day between Ivan Bocharov and Alexej Gorbatov turned out to be instructive from the strategic point of view.
Nimzowitsch considered a knight with the combination of such qualities as flexibility and aggressiveness to be the best blocking piece. This game is a proof of the thesis of a great master of the positional game. Positioning cozy on the e3 blocking field, the white knight was conducting the actions of its army on the whole board. And the knight-blocker joined the attack on the black king at the last seconds of the game, making it immediately capitulate!