White to move. How should White proceed?
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White to move. How should White proceed?
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Nxb5 perhaps (trap the queen soon or push for a back rank mate)? Black is in serious trouble on the Q-side and the centralized King is not doing too good either.
1 Nxb5 cb 2 Bxb5+ Kd8 and what else?
May be 1 d5 is good.
I like 1.nxb5 cb 2.Qxc8+ Nxc8 3.Rxc8+ Kd7 4.Rfc1 Black wont last long hear cos Bxb5+ is threat and Rc7+ too – and dark squared bish can come to h2-b8 diagonal (if this exists!).
Concur to Anon @ 9:48. Also jsut looked up the actual game and that was how it continued. Still, bold to play. I probably would have played this as well, however, after Rf-c1 black has various options and though white has an excellent position she still had sac’ed quite some material.
I was thinking about 1.Na2 Qa4 2.b3 Qa3. Hard to trap black queen but white has some tricks like: 3.d5 Nd5 (cd? Bb5+) 4.Bc5 Nb4 5.Nb4 ab 6.Ra1. But I don’t really know the answer.