A very nice shot - can you find it?

in #chess8 years ago (edited)

Knockout

Can you find the knockout blow for white. --edit (this used to be black, which makes little sense, fixed now, this should explain one comment, I am sorry for this mistake, don't post so fast.)

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Black Queen to B6 then ravage the open file

Argh I did post that too quick, well let me fix it, seems there is a major typo :S

Updated the article, stupid to make such a typo, well your move would probably be the best black can do, sorry about this.

White knight to E6, threaten the queen. pawn takes the knight, queen to H5 check, black pawn valiantly defends G6 threatening queen. white sacs the queen to G6, pawn takes queen, white bishop G6 avenging his queen check, king to E7. its all over bishop to G5. still the black knight leaps to its sires aid on F6, bishop takes knight protected by the lone pawn. mate

Yeah this is much better, but what happens on 1.Nxe6 Qb6 now what ?

well the only gentlemanly response would be the pin , bishop to B5 and work on backing the clergy up with the iron fist of the rook on B1. pushing for a discovered attack down the open file.

There is a nice blow 2.Nc7+!

Alas the heroic but romantic death of the knight the queen of spades doubles back to C7 adding him to the butchers bill. The black king then smugly looks out over whites pawn, their structure in disastrous order.

In fact black resigned after Nc7+