Christmas, New Year, time off work, new roles at work and just general living, have put this blog on a back-burner since early December, but just to show some sign of activity, for me, if no-one else, here are a couple of useful positions from a recent blitz game.
I had manoeuvred and, dare I say, planned to be in this position, with the intention of swapping off the Bishop for knight.
However, I missed a nice tactic, as I had too much focus on previous plans, rather than viewing the position.There is a much better move here than Nxe3 that I played.
Black to Play
I won this game,but I missed the mate in two that was available, probably because of a lack of time ( down to about 10 seconds ).
Its both hidden, because of the knight on d4, and obvious at the same. Any takers ?
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| Mate in 2 |
Out of interest, I used a new tool I found to write this post ‘off-line’', ie not via Blogger.
Its new, based on ( possibly , inspired by ? ) Windows Live Writer, and just released in the last month or so.
I think its a very neat piece of software, though possibly more useful for a more text orientated blog : view it at Open Live Writer.
3 comments:
1...nxb2 in the first problem.
I'm always looking for tactics first when heavy pieces are aligned on a file and I have a possible discovery.
Long breaks are a part of amateur chess. And as I'm coming to find out, might be a useful improvement tool.
I guess that's 1...Nxb2 and 1...Ne2+
Knights are tricky :-)
Thanks for the comments... both correct !
Although I missed Nxe2+, my Qe4 was enough to provoke a resignation :)
Knights are more than tricky. Knight forks in particular are demoralising and game-winning !
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