Reti vs Romanovsky light magic.

IM Yaacov's Hint: A complex endgame we have here. Since there are opposite colored bishops, the color money swings are real and palpable. White is +$1000 light, Black is +$1000 dark. F5 is under some pressure, and if fxe6 then oops!– f5 mates us. How to break black on light, and show him light is ours?

Nimzo light squeeze featuring triangulation!

Here, black has a large advantage, what with the poor dark bishop sleeping in the b2 boondocks. That being said, our knight isn't great either, and our king needs to find a way to invade. Color money time! We are behind on dark and ahead on light. Let's see if we can squeeze our way into e4–light...

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