Verifying Attacking Manual 2

Attacking Manual 2-Aagaard(Quality Chess 2010)
The feature game is one of the examples from Ch2-Typical Piece Play. Going through this book is proving to be a tough training exercise. I found another chapter overview position too hard to solve and re-annotated the game to see what was going on.

GM Mamedyarov won a sharp Sicilian Najdorf as black and the game revealed many interesting tactical points.

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Here is the feature game.

Nijboer,Friso (2549) - Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2657)
Sicilian Najdorf 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 [B90]
Corus-B Wijk aan Zee (1), 15.01.2005

Position 1(26.Bd3)
The position is sharp with mutual attacks. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

26.Bd3

Position 2(29...Rxc2)
Black has launched a direct attack with 29,,,Rxc2 and the threat is ...Rxb2+. What do you recommend for white?

White to Play

29...Rxc2