A picture of me outside Sandy Bells trying to set up this position
White to play and draw. (By A.S. Kakovin.)
Lost quite a few recent games going for a flashy win to celebrate my 1000th win. (fail).
Instead I have a trap that worked. It’s a neat trap and thinking about it. It fits the bill
as a lot of my other 999 wins involve a trap of some kind. Some sound....some unsound.
Then a look at a note in ‘Planning’ by Neil McDonald.
A blunder that has appeared on RHP over 100 times
but only (too date) 57 White players have spotted it.
I enjoyed that one more than usual, largely because I got the study solution at the start 😉. I only got the first move of the Carlsen problem I saw it and stopped thinking. I quite like that study, it reminds me to look deeper.
In the McDonald game fragment where you show what should happen after Nf6, in the note to the move the viewer is reporting as 5. Qc2 you're got "A good move trying to the Queen onto c3 to hit g7." - missing the word "move".
1,000 Wins = 1,000 Chess Traps
26 Jan '20 23:17