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  • White: A class A player
  • Black: A class A player
  • Where: Tournament game in Indiana
  • around 1990.
  • How should White
  • play?
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  • After thinking 30 minutes White
  • decides he can give up the knight on
  • d5.
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  • Black analyzes it for a while and
  • decides that he can safely take the
  • knight.  If he doesn't take it
  • then he has serious problems because
  • Re7 is coming next.
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  • Force the rook ....
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  • ... to retreat.
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  • The queen check forces ...
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  • ... Black to block to the queen.
  •  When Black took the knight he
  • had looked at this possibility and
  • wrongly assumed that he was safe
  • here.
  • How should White
  • play?
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  • Taking exposes ...
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  • ... the king.
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  • Check.
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  • The king must move.
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  • Force ...
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  • ... the queen back.  Black had
  • already resigned by this point
  • because he had seen what was
  • coming...
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  • Pin the queen and force mate.  No
  • good is Qxe8 because of Qxe8 mate.
  •  The game might continue ...
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  • Make an escape square.
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  • Check.
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  • Run away.
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  • Force the king into the open.
  •  Also works is Qe8!
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  • Not much choice.
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  • Check.
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  • Only square.
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  • Mate.
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