Black to move. How should black proceed?
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Black to move. How should black proceed?
Source: ChessToday.net
This was vaguely familiar to me, but it is not in my notes, so I probably have seen it elsewhere in the distant past- in any case the solution came way too quickly for me. In any case, the solution is quite pretty in the way the side variations show white’s own pieces getting in each other’s way, though white can minimize the damage to just losing the queen for a rook and bishop.
1…..Bf2 threatening Qg1+, if 2.Bxf2 Qe4+ wins Whites Q and mates,
2.Qc8+ Rg8
3.Qxg8+ Kxg8 now white is threatening Qe4+ grabbing the bishop
4.Bxf2 Qc2 and the BR can’t move to protect the a pawn because it’s guarding the bishop.
I should have said the WR is guarding the bishop