An easy one

WanderingKing

Only Chess

22 Apr 13

WanderingKing

Joined: 29 Oct 09
Moves: 1421

22 Apr 13

-1

White to move

(from Blatny vs Dasek, 1950)

RJHinds

The Near Genius

Fort Gordon

Joined: 24 Jan 11
Moves: 13644

22 Apr 13

Originally posted by WanderingKing
White to move

[fen]r1bqkb1r/p3p2p/2p1P1p1/3p1p2/2B2Bn1/2N5/PPP2PPP/R2QK2R w KQkq - 0 11 [/fen]

(from Blatny vs Dasek, 1950)

Looks like NxP or Nxd5 might led to something.

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

Joined: 28 Dec 04
Moves: 53336

22 Apr 13

1 edit

Originally posted by WanderingKing
White to move

[fen]r1bqkb1r/p3p2p/2p1P1p1/3p1p2/2B2Bn1/2N5/PPP2PPP/R2QK2R w KQkq - 0 11 [/fen]

(from Blatny vs Dasek, 1950)

Knight takes pawn, pawn takes knight and instead of bishop takes pawn, bishop checks instead. Hell breaks loose🙂 In this case, mate in 2 after the first check.