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  • White: A class A player.
  • Black: A class C player.
  • Where: 5 minute game at a chess
  • club.
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  • Black plays the Center Counter
  • Opening.
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  • Capturing is the only decent
  • response.
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  • Getting the queen out gains a tempo,
  • but that tempo will be lost as soon
  • as White plays Nc3.
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  • Instead of playing the normal Nc3,
  • White sets a little trap for Black.
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  • Just what White was hoping for.
  •  Black thinks that he can
  • challenge the center.
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  • Attack the queen.  Now Black
  • can't make the usually Qa5 move.
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  • It might appear that White loses a
  • pawn...
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  • ... but White is not worried ...
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  • ... because ...
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  • ... he now attacks d4 and c7.
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  • This has to be the worst possible way
  • to protect c7.  Black is thinking
  • now that the queens are off the board
  • that his king should become active.
  •  But a king can be mated by minor
  • pieces.
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  • Renew the threat on c7.
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  • Protects c7.
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  • Castle while adding pressure to d4
  • and the file that the king is on.
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  • With nothing else to do, Black makes
  • an opening for his bishop.
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  • White recaptures the pawn and
  • threatens to move the knight with
  • check.
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  • Black is oblivious to the danger on
  • the d file.
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  • Both bishops work togethor to attack
  • squares surrounding the king.
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  • Only choice.
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  • Mate.
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