Fischer, Bobby – Benko, Pal (New York, 1963) by Andreas
White to move. Can you find the best continuation for White?
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Saturday World Champion’s Tactic
r-f6 wins
an historic move Rf6 !!
If you haven’t seen this before, 19.e5 looks nasty — until you see that Black has a get out of jail free card with 19…f5.
19. Rf6 Bxf6 20. e5 and mate is coming
If 19… h6 than 20. e5 Nb5 21. Rxh6+ Kg8 22. Rh8+ Bxh8 23. Qh7#
Amazing tactic by Bobby!!
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19.Rf6! [19.e5! f5!]
19…Kg8
[19…dxc3 20.e5+-;
19…Bxf6 20.e5+-;
19…h6 20.Rxd6 dxc3 (20…Kg8 21.Ne2+- and White is a piece up.)
21.Rxh6+ Kg8
[21…Bxh6 22.Qxh6+ Kg8 23.Qg5+ (also wins 23.e5 f5 24.exf6) 23…Kh8 24.e5 f5 25.exf6 Qf7
(25…Rf7 26.Qh6+ Kg8 27.Bc4 Qf8 28.Qg6+ Kh8 29.Bxf7 and mate is coming.) 26.Qh6+ Kg8 27.Bc4]
22.Qf5! f6 23.Qh7+ Kf7 24.Bc4+ Ke7+-]
20.e5 h6 21.Ne2!
[21.Rxd6 Qxe5 22.Qxe5 Bxe5 23.Ne4; 21.Ne2! intending Rxd6 21…Nb5 (21…Bxf6 22.Qxh6+-) 22.Qf5+-]
Pharaoh
Wow!! I looked at this for 15 minutes before giving up and going to the comments, Rf6! Amazing!!! It even took me a minute to figure out why that isn’t just an absurd blunder!
All these puzzles are making me think that no matter what situation I find myself in a match, I can find some absurd looking move that turns out to be brilliant, gonna waste a lot of time looking for such moves in my games 🙂