Thursday Chess Tactic

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  Anonymous says:

  August 21, 2008 at 9:57 pm

  1- Qxb8+ Qxb8
  2- c7 Qc8
  3- Bxa3

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  Anonymous says:

  August 21, 2008 at 11:17 pm

  1- Qxb8+ Qxb8
  2- c7 Qc8
  3- Bxa3

  Well, that’s 3.Bxa6, but yeah.

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  Jochen says:

  August 22, 2008 at 11:11 am

  Would be more interesting without pawn e6 wouldn’t it?.

  Perhaps 1. Qxb8 still wins (?) but black could at least fight trying 2. -, Nf3+! 3. Kh1, Qc8! e.g. 4. Bxa6?? Qh3# or 4. Bg2, Nd4! 5. Kh2, Nb5 6. Bb7, Qxc7 (or anything similar).

  Such little details form the difference between tactical exercises and real life games (in which one sometimes loses by doing bad tactics) which should be trained from time to time to (having positions in which the “obvious” winning line does not win).
  Just a suggestion for coming exercises, Susan.

  Best regards
  Jochen

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  Anonymous says:

  August 22, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  I have trouble with the relevance of this random change in position. If you just remove an e-pawn, why don’t you play the correct 3. Kg2 in stead of 3. Kh1? Is this to prove a point by force? Totally wrong and irrelevant!