White to move. How should white proceed?
r7/p1pk2pp/1rpb1pn1/4p3/Q1B1P3/1PRR1N2/1KP2qPP/8 w – – 0 1
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I don’t see what is so complicated in Rd2! winning the Queen.
1. Rd2 Qc5
2. Be6+ Kxe6
3. Rxc5 Bxc5
4. Qc4+ Ke7
5. Qxc5+ 1-0
Bd5
Rd2,Black Queen trapped
Rd3-d2!
seems to win the black Queen
….. Qf2-c5
Bc4-e6+
d3-d2!
seems to win the black Queen
…. f2-c5
c4-e6+!
My first instinct here is to trap that black queen:
1. Rd2 Qc5 (Rb4 Rxf2 Rxa4 bxa4 is up with rook with some black counter attack possibility but hardly enough?)
2. Be6+ Kxe6
3. Rxc5 Bxc5
4. Qc4+ Ke7
5. Qxc5+
is up with Q for R.
Problem: This seems to simple when the puzzle is “complicated attack”, so what have I overlooked now…..
1. Rd2 seems to be a strong move.
I think black can only play 1… Qc5, which is followed by 2. Be6+ Kxe6 3. Rxc5 Bxc5 4. Qc4+ Ke7 5. Qxc5+ and white is basically a queen for a rook up.
1.Rd2 Qc5 2.Be6+ Kxe6 3.Rxc5
I think Ms. Polgar is pulling everyone’s leg with the title.
Perhaps not. Like Anant (above) I immediately saw Bd5. It took me a short while to realize that after Ne7, Black should hold, and even after Ke7, White gains nothing more than the doubled c-pawn. Moreover, with the White Bishop now on the long diagonal, the Black Queen can go to f1. Perhaps GM Polgar is trying to show how we must grasp the bigger picture (the Black Queen is trapped) rather than the smaller, more obvious tactic (Black c6 pawn is pinned). Of course, Ms. Polgar would probably be better able to address this speculation than any of us!
Well, I can’t say for sure what I was thinking when I wrote that three years ago, but I probably was doing so a bit tongue in cheek- yes, the title does does lead one to look at such moves as 1.Bd5 first, and then raps the knuckles for being so easily distracted from the primary goal a chess player needs in constantly evaluating the entire position.