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Dacha Tactics #23 - Reti vs Romanovsky light magic.

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Dacha Tactics #23 - Reti vs Romanovsky light magic.

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 ooops!-- f5 mates us. How to break black on light, and show him light is ours?

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