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Lateral thinking

Black has just sacrificed his rook with Rxc3.

Why?
How about a link to the game? Oh, wait, this may be trick question. We have to work backwards from the move R x c3 and find all the possible variations that will result in a rook sacrifice on c3. What? Only 783,238,246,327 possible variations? Easy peasy.
Because you castled long, and with Black taking your knight on c3, you retake with the b-pawn, causing long-term damage to your structure. Black now has an open b-file to work with, whereas White has an exposed king.

Any chance of a link to the game?
Kasparov - Piket 1989, Tilberg, Netherlands.

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