Daily Chess Improvement: Blitz Tactic!

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  CraigB says:

  June 24, 2017 at 11:14 pm

  1…Qa1+ clears e5 so that after 2. Kh2 Ne5 3. Qf5 N:d7 4. Q:d7 Qc1 consolidates with an exchange to the good. Black still has an attack, but White has so many moves in this position that further analysis is pointless; even 5. Be3 must be considered because taking the B allows Q:c8+ recovering the exchange (although taking the B is not White’s best reply).

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  Arein22 says:

  June 25, 2017 at 12:52 am

  Nice puzzle

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  Yancey Ward says:

  June 25, 2017 at 1:30 am

  I think CraigB has is all right- Qa1 and Ne5 wins an exchange, and I see no real counterplay for white if black later consolidates as Craig suggests with Qc1. I think eventually a passed pawn on the queen side will be decisive.